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Schwachmat
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German
Alternative forms
de Schwachmatiker Schwachmatikus
Etymology
de of the older forms above, themselves from de schwach weak blended with medical terms like de Rheumatiker/de Rheumatikus rheumatic, de Phlegmatiker/de Phlegmatikus phlegmatic, originally in student slang.
Pronunciation
de /ʃvaxˈmaːt/
de De-Schwachmat.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m.weak
de colloquial pejorative someone with intellectual or bodily deficiencies
moron, idiot
de Idiot Dummkopf Schwachkopf Trottel
de Mein Ding Stark wie Zwei w:Udo Lindenberg 2008 Ich mach mein Ding / Egal was die anderen labern / Was die Schwachmaten einem so raten / Das ist egal / Ich mach mein Ding I do my own thing / Doesn't matter what anyone else has to say / What the morons would have me do / Doesn't matter / I do my own thing
de Emeli Glaser Video der Techniker Krankenkasse: Krebsvorsorge, aber als Porno Die Tageszeitung: taz 2022-02-03 https://taz.de/!5833046/ 0931-9085 Das Traurigste aber ist, dass “Der life-saving Handjob“ nämlich eines zeigt: Die Kampagne hält Männer für absolute Schwachmaten. But the sad thing is that "The Live-Saving Handjob" ends up demonstrating one thing, and that is that the campaign takes men for absolute idiots. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018102109/https://taz.de/Video-der-Techniker-Krankenkasse/!5833046/ 18 October 2026
de dated weakling, chicken
de Schwächling Schlappschwanz
Declension
m.weak
Further reading
de pseudo-loans from Latin student slang