Ungeziefer.
vermin; pests; restricted to small animals, usually insects or spiders, sometimes also mice, etc.
Meaning & usage
vermin; pests; restricted to small animals, usually insects or spiders, sometimes also mice, etc.
Der Küchenschrank saß voller Motten und dieses Ungeziefer war in alle Dosen und Tüten eingedrungen.
a vermin animal; a despised creature
Where this word comes from
From early modern German ungeziffer, Ungezieffer, a variant form of Middle High German ungezibere. These pertain to Old High German zebar (“sacrificial animal”) and hence originally meant “animals unsuitable for sacrifice”, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tībrą (“offering, sacrifice, victim”). The word is rarely attested in medieval texts due to suppression of words reminiscent of heathen practices, but must have survived in lower registers.
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