Fatzke

== German == === Etymology === Probably borrowed from Polish Wacku, the vocative form of Wacek, which is the diminutive form of the given name Wacław, itself from Czech Václav, from Old Czech Venceslav, from Proto-Slavic *Vęťeslàvъ. Doublet of Wenzel. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfat͡skə/ Hyphenation: Fatz‧ke === Noun === Fatzke m (strong or weak, genitive Fatzkes or Fatzken, plural Fatzkes or Fatzken) (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly Germany) beau, dandy, fop, peacock, pompous twit (arrogant, vain man) Synonyms: Dandy, Geck, (chiefly Austria, fashionable in the 1880s) Gigerl, (colloquial) Lackaffe, (colloquial, derogatory) Laffe, (youth slang) Poser, Stutzer, Zierbengel ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Fatzke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “Fatzke” in Duden online “Fatzke”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008– “Fatzke” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon Schröder, Heinrich (1911), “Kleine Beiträge. Beiträge zur Wortforschung”, in Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift‎[2], volume 3, pages 172–173