backfisch
/ˈbækfɪʃ/
backfisch noun: a teenage or late-adolescent girl.
Noun
backfisch (plural backfisch or backfische or backfisches)
- 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
- I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, […]1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 115
backfisch meaning in Tamil and Urdu
backfisch in Tamil
- இளமங்கை
backfisch in Urdu
- چھوکری
Forms of backfisch
| plural | backfisch |
|---|---|
| plural | backfische |
| plural | backfisches |
Origin of backfisch
Borrowed from German Backfisch (“teenage girl”, literally “fish for baking”).
Questions about backfisch
- What does backfisch mean?
- Backfisch means a teenage or late-adolescent girl.
- What is backfisch in Tamil?
- Backfisch in Tamil is இளமங்கை. See Backfisch meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is backfisch?
- Backfisch is a noun.
- How do you pronounce backfisch?
- Backfisch is pronounced /ˈbækfɪʃ/.
- What is the plural of backfisch?
- The plural of backfisch is backfisch.
Words near backfisch in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: backfisch (page history and authors); backfisch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); backfisch (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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