noun
Meaning 1
A teenage or late-adolescent girl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
backfisch
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/ˈbækfɪʃ/
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Backfisch (“teenage girl”, literally “fish for baking”).
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: bakvis — teenage girl
- German: Backfisch — teenage girl
- Hungarian: bakfis — teenage girl
- Russian: девочка-подросток (devočka-podrostok) — teenage girl
- Swedish: backfisch — teenage girl