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Mauke.

mud fever (infection of horses′ lower limbs)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmaʊ̯kə/
  1. mud fever (infection of horses′ lower limbs)

    feminine
  2. foot

    colloquial · derogatory · feminine · plural · regional
    Nimm deine Mauken vom Tisch!
Where this word comes from

15th century, from Middle Low German mūke, from Proto-West Germanic *mūku. Of unknown further origin; perhaps from Proto-Germanic *mūkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mewg- (“slimy, slippery”). Cognate with Middle High German mūche (whence dialectal German Mauche) and Middle Dutch muyck (whence Dutch muik, now usually mok). The -au- in Mauke either through conflation with the inherited form or simply through artificial adaptation to the Standard German vowel system. Also cognate slightly farther to English muck and meek.

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