Wackes.
rascal, loafer, good-for-nothing.
Meaning & usage
rascal, loafer, good-for-nothing.
a Romance-speaker.
a native of Alsace-Lorraine, especially one who speaks a Romance language and/or a nonstandard dialect of German.
Und wenn Sie dabei so einen Wackes über den Haufen stechen, so schadet es nichts. Sie bekommen von mir dann noch zehn Mark Belohnung.
Where this word comes from
Uncertain. Usually assumed to be derived from wackeln (“to waggle”), or perhaps from Latin vagus (“wandering, rambling”), in either case, usually implying loitering or vagrancy.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.