hübsch
Meaning
pretty, handsome
Concepts
pretty
beautiful
nice
cute
neat
handsome
comely
lovely
nifty
good-looking
winsome
bonnie
gorgeous
elegant
trim
fair
good
sympathetic
alluring
charming
disarming
graceful
handsomely
easily
skillfully
sufficiently
well
refined
tidy
prettily
friendly
enough
pleasing
slim
delicious
kind
tasty
attractive
fine
great
pleasant
properly
cunningly
cutely
beauteous
bootiful
easy on the eyes
fayre
goodly
prettiful
pulchrous
splendiferous
gainly
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hʏpʃ/
Etymology
From Middle High German hübesch (“courtly”), from the root of modern Hof (“court”). Cognate with Yiddish היפּש (hipsh). The term was probably borrowed into written Middle High German from Middle Dutch hovesch via West Central German, in which process the Central German -v- was hypercorrectly replaced with -b-. The somewhat younger Middle High German hövesch, in line with hof (“court”), led to modern höfisch (“courtly”). For the semantic and phonetic development of this complex compare also Dutch hoofs (“courtly”) and heus (“polite; genuine”), Ripuarian Central Franconian höösch (“careful, slow”).
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