verballhornen

== German == === Alternative forms === verbalhornen === Etymology === From ver- +‎ Balhorn +‎ -en, from the last name of German printer Johann Balhorn (c. 1550–1604), who printed the first High German translation of the Middle Low German Lübeck law. The translation was notable for containing many errors, which came to be associated with the printer's name. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈbalhɔʁnən/ Hyphenation: ver‧ball‧hor‧nen === Verb === verballhornen (weak, third-person singular present verballhornt, past tense verballhornte, past participle verballhornt, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to distort, to corrupt (to change a word or phrase through folk etymology or general ignorance of the original form, especially when borrowing from a foreign language) Synonyms: entstellen, umdeuten, verformen to mock, to jokingly refer to [with als] (to purposefully distort a word in such a way to make fun of what is being referred to) (by extension) to mock, to satirize Synonym: lustig machen ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== ballhornisieren, balhornisieren ==== Derived terms ==== Verballhornen Verballhornung ==== Related terms ==== verhohnepiepeln === Further reading === “verballhornen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[6] (in German) “verballhornen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “verballhornen” in Duden online Verballhornung on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de