英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈbækfɪʃ/

名詞

backfisch (plural backfisch or backfische or backfisches)

1. A teenage or late-adolescent girl.
   • 1919, Katherine Mansfield, “Friendship”, in J. Middleton Murry, editor, The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield, published 1940:

     When we were charming Backfisch / With curls and velvet bows / We shared a charming kitten / With tiny velvet toes.

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 115:

     I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, […]