Pausbacke

German Alternative forms de obsolete de Bausbacke Etymology The word is documented since the 16th century. It is a compound formed with the noun de Backe and the stem of an obsolete verb whose (West Central German) Late Middle High German form was pūsen (see de pusten) and whose Early New High German equivalent was pausen, bausen ‘to be blown-up; to billow, to distend; to swell; to be full of, to be bursting with’. In Early New High German these forms were merged with the verb bauschen whose Middle High German equivalents were biuschen and būschen ‘to beat, to knock’ which was influenced semantically by them (see de bauschen). Pronunciation de [ˈpaʊ̯sˌbakə] de De-Pausbacke.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Paus ba cke Noun f de colloquial generally _ in the plural chubby facial cheek with a red/reddish complexion (especially of a child) 1934, Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder: Roman. Volume 2: Der junge Joseph, S. Fischer, Berlin, p. 88 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015):Translation:1944, Thomas Mann: Joseph and His Brothers. Volume 2: The Young Joseph, A. A. Knopf, New York, p. 62 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015): de „Meine Pausbacken sind ebenfalls zart und weich“, bemerkte Benjamin und befühlte mit beiden Handflächen seine Wangen. “My chubby cheeks are soft and tender too,” Benjamin remarked, and felt his cheeks with both his little palms. Declension f Derived terms de regional de Pausback de Pausbäckchen de pausbäckig/de rarer de pausbackig See also de Apfelbäckchen de Birnennase de Hamsterbacke, de Hamsterbäckchen de Kirschmund References Further reading