Derbes Wort für das männliche Geschlechtsteil.
A rude word for the male sexual organ.
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Er rief einen Witz über seinen Schwanz. — He shouted a joke about his dick.
Sei kein Arschloch. — Don't be such a dick.
Dick wohnt nebenan. — Dick lives next door to us.
Jemand hatte einen Schwanz auf das Whiteboard gemalt. — Someone had drawn a dick on the whiteboard.
Unser Nachbar hat sich bei der Versammlung wie ein Arschloch benommen. — Our neighbor acted like a dick at the meeting.
Dick und seine Frau führen die Bäckerei. — Dick and his wife run the bakery.
Der Ball traf ihn genau in den Schritt. — The ball hit him right in the dick.
Nur ein Arschloch parkt quer über zwei Plätze. — Only a dick would park across two spaces.
Kennst du Dick aus der Buchhaltung? — Have you met Dick from accounting?
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testSchwanz is the ordinary word for a tail — a dog's, a fish's, a comet's — and only in the second sense is it vulgar. That double life is what English lost: apart from the first name, dick has no innocent everyday use left.
So a German child says der Schwanz des Hundes without a flicker, and a German adult uses the same word crudely. Context alone decides, and the shift is much easier than the English speaker expects. Neither the insult sense of English dick nor the name Dick has any German counterpart.
Schweif tail — of a comet or a horse
Literary and specific. Schwanz is the everyday word, and the one with the second meaning.
Arschloch arsehole
What German says where English uses dick as an insult. The German word is considerably stronger.
schwänzen to play truant
From the same root but entirely innocent, and one of the first slang verbs German children learn.
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