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‖ backfisch|ˈbækfɪʃ|
Also (erron.) bachfisch.
[G., lit. ‘fish for baking’.]
A girl in late adolescence, a teenager.
1888C. M. Yonge Beechcroft at Rockstone vii. 136 The reckless folly of the ‘Bachfisch’ about health. 1891Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Aug. 3/2 Let us introduce the word ‘Backfisch’, for we have the Backfisch always with us. She ranges from fifteen to eighteen years of age, keeps a diary, climbs trees secretly, blushes on the smallest provocation, and has no conversation. 1920S. Lewis Main Street xiv. 161 A Gopher Prairie housewife, married a year, and yearning for a ‘Prince Charming’ like a bachfisch of sixteen! 1921R. Macaulay Dangerous Ages xiii. 239 These were a mother and a backfisch, and they..certainly did not look so prosperous and buxom as a pre-war German mother and backfisch would have looked. 1966Observer 6 Nov. 24/4 Marlene Dietrich..conjures up the little Berlin backfisch..who auditioned for ‘The Blue Angel’. |