wursteln.
to meddle; to tamper
Meaning & usage
to meddle; to tamper
Statt immer am Radio zu wursteln, solltest du es mal zur Reparatur bringen.
to potter; to be busy with minor works and tasks (e.g. about the house)
Der Peter wurstelt heute den ganzen Tag im Schuppen.
to struggle with everyday problems; to eke out a living
Als alleinerziehende Mutter muss ich ziemlich wursteln, um über den Monat zu kommen.
Where this word comes from
From Wurst (“sausage”), thus originally “to make sausages” (compare wursten), and then figuratively in the sense of “to meddle, to tamper”. In Low German areas the verb is likely to have been secondarily associated with an unrelated verb meaning “to wrestle, to struggle”, attested in Middle Low German worsteln and cognate with English wrestle and Dutch worstelen. Some senses and particularly the derivative sich durch etwas durchwursteln (“to struggle through sth.”) are most readily explained as being linked to this Low German verb. By surface analysis, Wurst + -eln.
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