[Sca-cooks] wick-a-wack? (OOP)

wheezul at canby.com wheezul at canby.com
Thu Aug 12 18:08:51 PDT 2010


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> On Aug 12, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Terry Decker wrote:
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>> Finding any evidence for or against this idea will likely be a problem.
>> I've done some cursory checking and there is nothing easily available.
>> I think the best source to research this further would be some high end
>> dictionaries of colloquial German.

>Adamantius:
> This sounds potentially plausible; somebody might also want to look into
> the German usage of "Weck" (as in, say, Kümmelweck) for rolls...

This source:
German-English dictionary of idioms By Hans Schemann, Paul Knight
(on google books) lists one of the meanings of wicken [gehen] to be
broken.  It might make sense here but also seems a stretch.

Katherine




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