Buckel

German

Alternative forms

Puckel (northern Germany, dated)

Etymology

From Middle High German buckel, from Old French boucle, from Latin buccula.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbʊkl̩/
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Hyphenation: Bu‧ckel

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

boss
hump
(colloquial) back
Synonym: Rücken

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Buckelpiste
Buckelschild
Buckelwal
bucklig
Schildbuckel

Further reading

“Buckel” in Duden online
“Buckel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Buckel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 112

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