hochkant

German

Etymology

By surface analysis, hoch (high) +‎ Kante (edge). Compare Swedish på högkant.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

hochkant

  1. upright, on end, edgeways (usually said of things that are not normally positioned this way)
    Synonym: aufrecht
    Wir können das Sofa nur hochkant durch die Tür tragen.
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  2. (colloquial, especially Southern Germany) forcefully, with force; construed with verbs such as rausfliegen, rausschmeißen
    Synonym: (more northern) achtkantig
    Als er anfing, mir mit dem Anwalt zu drohen, hab ich ihn hochkant rausgeschmissen.
    When he started threatening me with a lawyer, I kicked him out arse over tit.

Adjective

hochkant (strong nominative masculine singular hochkanter, not comparable)

  1. (rare) upright, on end (as above) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

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