"Fimmel" meaning in German

{
  "etymology_text": "A dialectal word that spread supraregionally during the 20th century. It has not been established in the etymological literature which dialects are at the origin, but they seem to be those of what is now North Rhine-Westphalia. The Rheinisches Wörterbuch (20th century) stated that the word was common throughout Ripuarian and Low Franconian, but had only begun to spread to Moselle Franconian. The more original meaning in the Rhenish dialects is “extravagance, craziness”. A connection with fummeln (“to fumble, to potter”) is supposed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Fimmels",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmels",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmeln",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "Fimmel m (strong, genitive Fimmels, plural Fimmel)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "Modefimmel"
        },
        {
          "word": "Putzfimmel"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "yoga craze",
          "text": "Yoga-Fimmel",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Theobald Tiger [pseudonym; Kurt Tucholsky], Rosen auf den Weg gestreut:",
          "text": "Und schießen sie –: du lieber Himmel, / schätzt ihr das Leben so hoch ein? / Das ist ein Pazifisten-Fimmel!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, Martin Walser, Halbzeit:",
          "text": "Dieckow wies nach, daß deutsche Namen im Ausland nie deutsch ausgesprochen würden, und das sei recht so, bloß wir Deutschen hätten den Fimmel, jeden Ausländer noch in seiner Muttersprache übertreffen zu wollen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 July 8, Helmut Schödel, “Sponti-Sprüche”, in Die Zeit:",
          "text": "Aus dieser untergegangenen Kultur ragen vier Wände einer Kneipentoilette wie eine Ruine. Die Wände sind von oben bis unten beschrieben. […] Davor stehen Leute mit anderen Bedürfnissen als Lesen: lesend. Erbärmliche Reste von Biographien: \"Erst hatte er ’nen forschen Pimmel, jetzt hat er einen Porsche-Fimmel.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 28, Arno Frank, “Die Wahrheit: Sprechen mit Schleifchen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Linguisten nennen diesen Fimmel „High Rising Terminal“ oder „Upward Inflection“ oder schlicht „Uptalk“. Zu übersetzen wäre es mit „Zaudersprech“ oder „Fragespoiler“.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "craze; unusual passion, preoccupation"
      ],
      "id": "en-Fimmel-de-noun-yVIA~ThA",
      "links": [
        [
          "craze",
          "craze"
        ],
        [
          "passion",
          "passion"
        ],
        [
          "preoccupation",
          "preoccupation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(somewhat informal, often in compounds) craze; unusual passion, preoccupation"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Tick"
        },
        {
          "word": "Macke"
        },
        {
          "word": "Faible"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "informal",
        "masculine",
        "often",
        "strong"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪməl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Fimmel.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/De-Fimmel.ogg/De-Fimmel.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/De-Fimmel.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Fimmel"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Modefimmel"
    },
    {
      "word": "Putzfimmel"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A dialectal word that spread supraregionally during the 20th century. It has not been established in the etymological literature which dialects are at the origin, but they seem to be those of what is now North Rhine-Westphalia. The Rheinisches Wörterbuch (20th century) stated that the word was common throughout Ripuarian and Low Franconian, but had only begun to spread to Moselle Franconian. The more original meaning in the Rhenish dialects is “extravagance, craziness”. A connection with fummeln (“to fumble, to potter”) is supposed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Fimmels",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmels",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmeln",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Fimmel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "Fimmel m (strong, genitive Fimmels, plural Fimmel)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German informal terms",
        "German lemmas",
        "German masculine nouns",
        "German nouns",
        "German terms with quotations",
        "German terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for date",
        "Requests for translations of German quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "yoga craze",
          "text": "Yoga-Fimmel",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Theobald Tiger [pseudonym; Kurt Tucholsky], Rosen auf den Weg gestreut:",
          "text": "Und schießen sie –: du lieber Himmel, / schätzt ihr das Leben so hoch ein? / Das ist ein Pazifisten-Fimmel!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, Martin Walser, Halbzeit:",
          "text": "Dieckow wies nach, daß deutsche Namen im Ausland nie deutsch ausgesprochen würden, und das sei recht so, bloß wir Deutschen hätten den Fimmel, jeden Ausländer noch in seiner Muttersprache übertreffen zu wollen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 July 8, Helmut Schödel, “Sponti-Sprüche”, in Die Zeit:",
          "text": "Aus dieser untergegangenen Kultur ragen vier Wände einer Kneipentoilette wie eine Ruine. Die Wände sind von oben bis unten beschrieben. […] Davor stehen Leute mit anderen Bedürfnissen als Lesen: lesend. Erbärmliche Reste von Biographien: \"Erst hatte er ’nen forschen Pimmel, jetzt hat er einen Porsche-Fimmel.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 28, Arno Frank, “Die Wahrheit: Sprechen mit Schleifchen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Linguisten nennen diesen Fimmel „High Rising Terminal“ oder „Upward Inflection“ oder schlicht „Uptalk“. Zu übersetzen wäre es mit „Zaudersprech“ oder „Fragespoiler“.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "craze; unusual passion, preoccupation"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "craze",
          "craze"
        ],
        [
          "passion",
          "passion"
        ],
        [
          "preoccupation",
          "preoccupation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(somewhat informal, often in compounds) craze; unusual passion, preoccupation"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Tick"
        },
        {
          "word": "Macke"
        },
        {
          "word": "Faible"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "informal",
        "masculine",
        "often",
        "strong"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪməl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Fimmel.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/De-Fimmel.ogg/De-Fimmel.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/De-Fimmel.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Fimmel"
}