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{
"etymology_text": "Probably from Northern German spack (“thin, scrawny; brittle”), with -en, the Low German masculine nominative ending.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Spackens",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "de-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Spackens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
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"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacko",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "Spacken m (strong, genitive Spackens, plural Spacken)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Spa",
"cken"
]
},
{
"parts": [
"Spak",
"ken"
]
}
],
"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": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
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}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "abspacken"
},
{
"word": "Vollspacken"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
10,
17
]
],
"english": "Spacken (superlative: Vollspacken) is a Hamburg term for people who cause annoyance to everyone with everything they do.",
"ref": "[1999 October 15, Der Tagesspiegel:",
"text": "Denn als \"Spacken\" (Steigerungsform: \"Vollspacken\") werden in Hamburg Leute bezeichnet, die in allem, was sie machen, für ihre Mitmenschen zum Ärgernis werden.",
"translation": "Spacken (superlative: Vollspacken) is a Hamburg term for people who cause annoyance to everyone with everything they do.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
8,
15
]
],
"ref": "2000, “Da draussen^([sic])”, in Fettes Brot für die Welt, performed by Fettes Brot:",
"text": "Denn du Spacken verstummst, wenn ich wie kein Zweiter abstyle / Mit Backen wie Mumps bei jeder weiteren Zeile",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"spack, idiot"
],
"id": "en-Spacken-de-noun-j5uk2DT3",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"spack",
"spack"
],
[
"idiot",
"idiot"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar, colloquial, derogatory) spack, idiot"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"derogatory",
"masculine",
"strong",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃpakən/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃpakən]"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃpakŋ̩]"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/De-Spacken.ogg/De-Spacken.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/De-Spacken.ogg",
"tags": [
"Germany",
"Berlin"
]
}
],
"word": "Spacken"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "abspacken"
},
{
"word": "Vollspacken"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably from Northern German spack (“thin, scrawny; brittle”), with -en, the Low German masculine nominative ending.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Spackens",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "de-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Spackens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacken",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Spacko",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "Spacken m (strong, genitive Spackens, plural Spacken)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Spa",
"cken"
]
},
{
"parts": [
"Spak",
"ken"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German colloquialisms",
"German derogatory terms",
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German lemmas",
"German masculine nouns",
"German nouns",
"German terms with quotations",
"German vulgarities",
"Pages with 1 entry",
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],
"examples": [
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10,
17
]
],
"english": "Spacken (superlative: Vollspacken) is a Hamburg term for people who cause annoyance to everyone with everything they do.",
"ref": "[1999 October 15, Der Tagesspiegel:",
"text": "Denn als \"Spacken\" (Steigerungsform: \"Vollspacken\") werden in Hamburg Leute bezeichnet, die in allem, was sie machen, für ihre Mitmenschen zum Ärgernis werden.",
"translation": "Spacken (superlative: Vollspacken) is a Hamburg term for people who cause annoyance to everyone with everything they do.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
8,
15
]
],
"ref": "2000, “Da draussen^([sic])”, in Fettes Brot für die Welt, performed by Fettes Brot:",
"text": "Denn du Spacken verstummst, wenn ich wie kein Zweiter abstyle / Mit Backen wie Mumps bei jeder weiteren Zeile",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"spack, idiot"
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"spack",
"spack"
],
[
"idiot",
"idiot"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar, colloquial, derogatory) spack, idiot"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"derogatory",
"masculine",
"strong",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃpakən/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃpakən]"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃpakŋ̩]"
},
{
"audio": "De-Spacken.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/De-Spacken.ogg/De-Spacken.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/De-Spacken.ogg",
"tags": [
"Germany",
"Berlin"
]
}
],
"word": "Spacken"
}
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