wacker
See also: Wacker
English
Noun
wacker (plural wackers)
- (UK, Liverpool) A Liverpudlian; a resident of Liverpool, England.
- 1993, Anthony Griffiths, Scouse Wars, Bluecoat Press, →ISBN, page 6:
- Wackers are the inhabitants of the city of Liverpool – famed for their humour, football, dockers and judies. Wackers eat scouse and wet nellies. Wackers and Woollybacks are tough yet warm breeds. Although both are Northerners, they are different in many ways; culture and traditions and even language divides them.
Adjective
wacker
References
- “wacker”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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German
Etymology
From Middle High German wacker, from Old High German wackar, from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz. See there for cognates.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvakəʁ/, [ˈva.kɐ], [ˈʋa.kɐ]
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) - Hyphenation: wa‧cker; pre-1996: wak‧ker
Adjective
wacker (strong nominative masculine singular wackerer, comparative wackerer, superlative am wackersten)
- (dated, literary or humorous) efficient, diligent, eager, hearty
- Synonym: tüchtig
- ein wackerer Arbeiter ― an efficient and eager worker
- ein wackerer Zecher ― a hardened drinker
- (dated, literary, except in sich wacker schlagen) stalwart, valiant, brave
- Synonym: tapfer
- ein wackerer Krieger ― a valiant warrior
- 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches […] [Human, All Too Human][1], section 80:
- […] in jenen Zeiten als die Häupter der griechischen Philosophie und die wackersten römischen Patrioten durch Selbsttödtung zu sterben pflegten.
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- 1913 [1878], chapter 12, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina[2], part 4, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy:
- »Wegen seiner Frau. Er hat sich wacker und schneidig benommen. Er hat ihn gefordert und erschossen!«
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (archaic) honest, reputable
- Synonyms: rechtschaffen, ehrlich, anständig, redlich
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One][3]:
- Ich gäb’ was drum, wenn ich nur wüßt’, / Wer heut der Herr gewesen ist! / Er sah gewiß recht wacker aus, / Und ist aus einem edlen Haus;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (archaic) alert, vigilant, waker
- Synonym: wachsam
- 1545, Luther-Bibel, Lukas 21:36:
- So seid nun wacker allezeit und betet, daß ihr würdig werden möget, zu entfliehen diesem allem, was geschehen soll, und zu stehen vor des Menschen Sohn.
- Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.
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