"Zwickmühle" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtsvɪkˌmyːlə/, [ˈt͡sʋɪkˌmyːlə] Audio: LL-Q188 (deu)-Frank C. Müller-Zwickmühle.wav
Etymology: Alteration of older Fickmühle, a compound of ficken + Mühle, in which ficken is used in the archaic sense of “to slide”. The alteration was without doubt driven by the need to avoid the vulgar verb. Formally it may be due to conflation with an unattested *Zwiemühle from zwie- (“double”), as well as to association with zwicken (“to pinch”). Etymology templates: {{m|de|Fickmühle}} Fickmühle, {{compound|de|ficken|Mühle}} ficken + Mühle, {{m|de|zwie-||double}} zwie- (“double”), {{m|de|zwicken||to pinch}} zwicken (“to pinch”) Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Zwickmühle f (genitive Zwickmühle, plural Zwickmühlen) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Zwickmühle [genitive], Zwickmühlen [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Zwickmühle [nominative, singular], Zwickmühlen [definite, nominative, plural], Zwickmühle [genitive, singular], Zwickmühlen [definite, genitive, plural], Zwickmühle [dative, singular], Zwickmühlen [dative, definite, plural], Zwickmühle [accusative, singular], Zwickmühlen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (nine men's morris) double mill Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Zwickmühle-de-noun-Pe3iRrOq
  2. (figurative) dilemma; Catch-22; quagmire; predicament; quandary (position in which one will suffer great disadvantage however one reacts) Tags: feminine, figuratively Categories (topical): Board games
    Sense id: en-Zwickmühle-de-noun-UDs~te9N Disambiguation of Board games: 9 91 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 2 98

Inflected forms

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