{"id":165,"date":"2006-09-18T17:32:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T16:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/etepetete\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T17:32:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T16:32:49","slug":"etepetete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; etepetete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice German word I came across today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/etepetete.mp3\"><em>etepetete<\/em><\/a>, which means fussy, finicky, pernickety. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Etepetete\">Wikipedia<\/a>, this word is used mainly in northern Germany, particularly in Berlin. The equivalents in High German are <em>eingebildet<\/em> and <em>geziert<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This word comes from the French <em>\u00eatre, peut-\u00eatre<\/em>, meaning &#8216;to be, perhaps&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example of usage<\/strong><br \/>\nDu bist so etepetete = You are so prim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice German word I came across today: etepetete, which means fussy, finicky, pernickety. According to Wikipedia, this word is used mainly in northern Germany, particularly in Berlin. The equivalents in High German are eingebildet and geziert. This word comes from the French \u00eatre, peut-\u00eatre, meaning &#8216;to be, perhaps&#8217;. Example of usage Du bist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}