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then {adv} [intensifying term in questions like "Who / why then is ... ?"]: denn [verstärkendes Wort in Fragen wie "Wer / Warum denn ist ... ?"]
[He who writes, remains.]: Wer schreibt, der bleibt.proverb
[They who want to build high towers have to give good consideration to the foundation.]: Wer hohe Türme bauen will, muss lange beim Fundament verweilen. [Anton Bruckner]quote
[to feel ashamed on someone else's behalf; to feel ashamed for someone else who has done sth. embarrassing] {adj}: sich fremdschämen [ugs.]neol.
déclassée {adj} [rare.: of a woman who has lost social status]: sozial abgesunken
Who'd've ...? [coll.] [Who would have ...?]: Wer hätte / wäre ...
drawer [one who draws]: Zeichner {m}
slacker [coll.] [person who shirks work]: Drückeberger {m} [Faulpelz, Arbeitsscheuer]
minder [someone who looks after someone]: Betreuer {m}
[a customer in a shop who just wants to inform himself, to compare prices, or to bridge some time]: Sehkunde {m}comm.
[sb. who tends to gloss things over]: Schönfärber {m}
sweater [dated] [pej.] [employer who underpays and overworks employees]: Leuteschinder {m} [pej.]
sympathizer [one who agrees with a sentiment or opinion]: Sympathisant {m}
tart [coll.] [pej.] [Br.] [woman who dresses or behaves in a manner considered sexually provocative]: Schlampe {f} [ugs.] [pej.] [als unmoralisch angesehen]
matron [older married woman, especially one who is staid or dignified]: Matrone {f} [ältere, Gesetztheit und Würde ausstrahlende Frau]
[professor who is not primarily an academic and has no voice in faculty matters]: Honorarprofessor {m}educ.
drawer [female] [one who draws]: Zeichnerin {f}
refusenik [coll.] [a person who refuses or declines something]: Verweigerer {m}
teller [person who counts votes]: Stimmenzähler {m}
wrecker [person who destroys]: Zerstörer {m}
[pupil who has to repeat a year]: Repetent {m} [österr.]educ.
Sitzenbleiber {m}
buttinski [sb. who always and anywhere butts in]: [jd., der sich ständig und überall einmischt ]idiom
squaller [Br.] [coll.] [one who squalls, cries aloud]: Schreihals {m} [ugs.]
[a member of parliament who has no secrets]: ein gläserner Abgeordneter {m} [fig.]
[a person who "looks the other way" in the face of a crime or misfortune]: Weggucker {m}
[a person who feels cold easily]: eine Frostbeule {f} [fig.] [hum.] [Person]
[a person who understands instantaneously]: Blitzgneißer {m} [ugs.] [österr.] [bayer.] [Schnellmerker]
[a West German who has been living in Eastern Germany for at least three years]: Wossi {m} [ugs.]
[agent who hired crews for ships]: Heuerbaas {m} [nordd.] [veraltet]naut.
[buyer who collects the goods himself]: Selbstabholer {m} [Kaufmannspr.]
[chairman of a farmers cooperative or of a village who was in charge of the Flurzwang]: Schulze {m} [Schultheiß]agr.hist.
[demon who destroys the crop in the fields]: Bilmesschnitter {m} [bayer.]myth.
[driver who caused an accident]: Unglücksfahrer {m}tra.
[farmer of full-sized farm who has to do socage-service for the landlord]: Anspänner {m} [veraltet] [relativ großer Bauer, der mit seinen Gespannen Frondienste leisten muss]hist.
[female pupil who has to repeat a year]: Sitzenbleiberin {f}educ.
[German slang for someone who gets somebody off the hook]: Rauspauker {m} [ugs.]
[In German folklore, a departed person who returns to earth in spiritual form at certain times.]: Wiedergänger {m}
[man who has retired early / taken early retirement]: Frühpensionist {m} [österr.]
[man who knows how to read women]: Frauenversteher {m} [ugs.] [hum.]
[merchant who has been entered as such in the commercial register]: Vollkaufmann {m}
[oldest member of parliament who presides until the new president takes up office]: Alterspräsident {m}pol.
[one who has declined in social status]: Absteiger {m} [gesellschaftlich]
[one who has fathered only daughters]: Büchsenmacher {m} [ostd.] [fränk.] [ugs.] [hum.]
[one who is conned or duped]: Gelackmeierter {m} [ugs.]
[one who is conned or duped] [female]: Gelackmeierte {f} [ugs.]
[painter who has a diploma from an art academy]: Akademischer Maler {m} [Titel]art
[person who donates his time for charity]: Zeitstifter {m}
[person who has passed the Abitur with an A grade]: Einserabiturient {m} [ugs.]
Einser-Abiturient {m} [ugs.]
[person who is doing, has done the Matura]: Maturant {m} [österr.]educ.
[person who loves to drink too much wine regularly]: Weindrossel {f} [ugs.] [hum.] [pej.]
[Poles who migrated to the Ruhr area at the end of the 1800s]: Ruhrpolen {pl}hist.
[prison chaplain in Nürnberg who prepared inmates for execution]: Lochkaplan {m}hist.relig.spec.
[pupil / student who has to commute]: Fahrschüler {m} [Schüler, der mit Bus oder Bahn zur Schule fährt]
[question of who will be the next chancellor candidate of a party]: Kanzlerfrage {f}pol.
K-Frage {f} [ugs.] [kurz für: Kanzlerfrage]pol.
[sb. who cashes in on a political or public office]: Privilegienritter {m} [österr.] [ugs.]
[sb. who does military service]: Zivildienstverweigerer {m} [ugs., hum., auch pej.]
[sb. who uses a lot of English expressions in German]: Sprachpanscher {m} [pej.]ling.
[short person with a long body who looks tall when sitting down]: Sitzriese {m} [ugs.]
[somebody who lives in the Bergstraße area]: Bergsträßer {m}
[somebody who pushes his limits to the extreme]: Grenzgänger {m} [fig.] [an seine Grenzen Gehender]
[somebody who smuggles people across borders]: Schlepper {m}
[someone who profited from the German reunification]: Wendegewinner {m}
[the feeling of shame on someone else's behalf; the feeling of shame for someone else who has done sth. embarrassing]: Fremdschämen {n} [ugs.]
[the two thieves who were crucified with Jesus]: Schächer {pl}bibl.
[theological graduate who has not yet been given a pastorate]: Collaborator {m} [kirchlicher Dienst]relig.
[thief who breaks into vending machines]: Automatenknacker {m} [ugs.]
[woman who bought food products from farmers in order to sell them in town]: Reeftragerin {f} [fränk.]hist.jobs
[woman who has been given a post just to fulfil the quota system requirements]: Quotenfrau {f}
[woman who has retired early / taken early retirement]: Frühpensionistin {f} [österr.]
[young girl, who in the company of other young girls, greets an important guest at a celebration]: Ehrenjungfrau {f} [veraltet]
agrarian [person who advocates a radical redistribution of land]: [Befürworter der Neu- bzw. Umverteilung von Ackerland]pol.
attestor [sb. who gives sb. an attestation]: Testator {m} [der etw. attestiert]law
barker [person who stands at a show entrance and solicits customers with a loud sales spiel]: Ausrufer {m}jobs
Biblicist [female] [sb. who interprets the Bible literally]: Bibeltreue {f}relig.
Biblicist [sb. who interprets the Bible literally]: Bibeltreuer {m}relig.
blessing [words of a person who blesses]: Segensspruch {m}
Brahmin [chiefly Am.] [a person who is intellectually or socially aloof, usually from an old, respected family (esp. in New England)]: großes Tier {n} [fig., hier meist: bedeutendes Mitglied der reservierten amerikan. Ostküstenaristokratie]
bugger [esp. Br.] [sl.] [offensive] [person who supposedly commits buggery]: Arschficker {m} [ugs.] [vulg.] [beleidigend]
catnapper [a person who takes catnaps, esp. regularly or habitually]: [Person, die öfter oder regelmäßig ein Nickerchen hält]
catnapper [person who steals cats]: Katzenentführer {m}
corporal [surplus NCO of a regiment in German armed forces of the 18th century, always officer candidates who hold the task of flagbearer]: Freikorporal {m}hist.mil.
Gefreitenkorporal {m} [Freikorporal]hist.mil.
dhobi [Ind.] [a man who does washing]: Wäscher {m}
dreadnought [person who fears nothing]: Fürchtenichts {m} [selten]
emendator [obs.] [one who emends or critically edits]: [jd., der einen Text überarbeitet, korrigiert usw.]printpubl.
fishwife [a coarse-mannered woman who is prone to shouting]: Gewitterziege {f} [ugs.] [böse / zänkische Frau] [pej.]
gastarbeiter [an immigrant worker, especially one who came to the former West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s]: Gastarbeiter {m}
glasser [person who cuts glass]: Glaser {m}jobs
hatcher [a person who hatches a plot]: Anzetteler {m}
headshrinker [headhunter who shrinks the heads of enemies]: Schrumpfkopfhersteller {m} [auch Schrumpfkopfindianer]
hieromonk [in the Eastern churches, a monk who is also a priest]: Priestermönch {m}relig.spec.
learner [sb. who is to be educated]: Educandus {m} [geh.]educ.spec.
lifeline [Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]: Joker {m} [Wer wird Millionär?]RadioTV
major [person who has reached majority]: Volljähriger {m}law
modder [sl.] [modifier] [sb. who modifies a mass-manufactured object or software]: [jd., der ein vorgefertigtes Produkt abwandelt, z. B. ein Computerspiel oder ein Auto]
monochromat [also an individual who is completely color-blind]: Monochromat {m}biol.med.zool.
napper [person who naps]: Schläfer {m}

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