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backfisches

backfisches is the plural 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 backfisches

What is backfisches the plural of?
Backfisches is the plural of backfisch.

Words near backfisches in the dictionary

  1. backfires
  2. backfiring
  3. backfirings
  4. backfisch
  5. backfische
  6. backfisches
  7. backfist
  8. backfists
  9. backfit
  10. backfits
  11. backfitted

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