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bachfisch

bachfisch is the alternative form of backfisch.

Meaning of backfisch

Noun

backfisch (plural backfisch or backfische or backfisches)

  1. A teenage or late-adolescent girl.
    • When we were charming Backfisch / With curls and velvet bows / We shared a charming kitten / With tiny velvet toes.1919, Katherine Mansfield, “Friendship”, in J. Middleton Murry, editor, The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield, published 1940

Questions about bachfisch

What is bachfisch the alternative form of?
Bachfisch is the alternative form of backfisch.

Words near bachfisch in the dictionary

  1. Bacher
  2. Bachers
  3. Bachert
  4. Bacherts
  5. baches
  6. bachfisch
  7. bachi
  8. Bachian
  9. Bachicha
  10. Bachichas
  11. Bachiller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bachfisch (page history and authors); backfisch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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