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Faxe
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faxe faxé
English
Proper noun
en town/and/municipality r:Pref/Zealand c/Denmark.
Anagrams
en aefx e-fax faex
German
Pronunciation
de /ˈfaksə/
de De-Faxe.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Etymology 1
From a shortening of dialectal de Fickesfackes nonsense, silly jokes, from de fickfacken to push back and forth, fuck around, a reduplication of de ficken to fuck. Alternatively a derivative of obsolete de fatzen to fool, make a fool of, mock, from de gmh fatzen to fool.
Noun
f
de colloquial often in the plural shenanigan, nonsense
de Faxen machen to fool around, goof off
Declension
f
Derived terms
de Faxenmacher
Etymology 2
Noun
de noun form
de Fax nom//acc//gen p
Further reading
Faxe_Faktotum Faxe (Faktotum)
Faxe_Grimasse_Unfug Faxe (Grimasse, Unfug)