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Siff.

filth, dirt, especially moist or greasy kinds

4 characters1 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/zɪf/
  1. filth, dirt, especially moist or greasy kinds

    colloquial · masculine · no-plural · strong
    Das Badezimmer ist ein einziger Siff!
  2. nonsense, tosh

    colloquial · masculine · no-plural · rare · regional · strong
Where this word comes from

From Syph f (“syphilis”), clipping of Syphilis, either directly or as a back-formation from versifft (also spelt versypht). The use for “filth” has existed in slang since at least the 1960s; it became more widely accepted during the 1980s. While the origin from Syphilis is not in doubt, note that dialectally (e.g. Rhineland, parts of Hesse) there is a verb seifen, siffen, siefen (“to ooze, seep”), from Middle High German sīfen, from Proto-Germanic *sīpaną, by which it may have been influenced or reinforced.

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