Räuberpistole

German

Etymology

Räuber +‎ Pistole, in its story sense originally a Berlin colloquialism often in reference to disingenuously constructed crime fiction, also supported by a jargonic verb räubern (“to fib, to tell tall stories”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁɔʏ̯bɐ.pɪsˌtoːlə/
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Noun

Räuberpistole f (genitive Räuberpistole, plural Räuberpistolen)

  1. (obsolete) a pistol typical for someone occupied in robbery
  2. wild story, tall tale, just-so story

Declension

Declension of Räuberpistole [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Räuberpistole die Räuberpistolen
genitive einer der Räuberpistole der Räuberpistolen
dative einer der Räuberpistole den Räuberpistolen
accusative eine die Räuberpistole die Räuberpistolen

Further reading

  • “Räuberpistole” in Duden online
  • “Räuberpistole” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Räuberpistole” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Meyer, Hans (1904) Der richtige Berliner in Wörtern und Redensarten, 5th edition, Berlin: H.S. Hermann, page 96a
  • Schmidt, Immanuel, Tanger, Gustav, editors (1896), “fish story”, in Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger: A Dictionary of the English and German Languages for Home and School: English / Wörterbuch der Englischen und Deutschen Sprache für Hand- und Schulgebrauch, volume 1: English-German, Braunschweig: George Westermann, page 264b
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