Schnecke

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German snëcke, from Old High German sneggo, snecco, from Proto-Germanic *sneggô. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃnɛkə/ Hyphenation: Schne‧cke Rhymes: -ɛkə === Noun === Schnecke f (genitive Schnecke, plural Schnecken, diminutive Schneckchen n or Schnecklein n) snail, slug (slang) an attractive woman; chick Synonym: Puppe (informal) a slow person, sluggard the cochlea in the inner ear (slang) female genitalia, pussy a screw or worm thread (lutherie) scroll (the carved wooden spiral at the end of a stringed instrument's fingerboard) pastry in the form of a snail volute of a column Synonym: Volute (watches) fusee (heraldry, rare) a stylized charge consisting of a tapering spiral inward from the edge to the centre of the shield, somewhat resembling the spiral on a snail's shell or a gurges ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== schneckig, schneckenartig, schneckenförmig, schneckenhaft ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Brazilian Portuguese: chineca → Czech: šnek → Kashubian: sznëka → Polish: sznek (Culmland) / → szneka (Greater Poland) === Further reading === “Schnecke”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Schnecke” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Schnecke” in Duden online == Hunsrik == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃnekə/ === Noun === Schnecke f plural of Schneck