schmurgeln

German

Etymology

From Low German smorkeln, smurkeln (to seethe, sizzle, smoulder), iterative of smorken (to smoulder), derived from smoren (to burn slowly, to braise), whence German schmoren, probably through a blend with smoken (to smoke). Possibly introduced into literary German, and at least popularised, by Wilhelm Busch in his famous Max und Moritz (1865).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃmʊʁɡəln/
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Verb

schmurgeln (third-person singular simple present schmurgelt, past tense schmurgelte, past participle geschmurgelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (regional, northern and central Germany, of food) to be fried or baked slowly, making a sizzling sound

Conjugation

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