To put it simply, if somebody will say that you are “schnabulieren” your food, it means that you are eating your food with pleasure and are really enjoying yourself doing so. “Schnabulieren” is a verb that is made up by the noun “Schnabel” and -ieren as a suffix that can be found in many verbs such as: It corresponds more or less to the English word “to munch”. It generally means that you are eating something with big pleasure. Schnabulieren is a verb that means eating. Hast du Petras Schuhe gesehen? Die hat richtige Quadratlatschen! (Have you seen Petra’s shoes? Her feet (shoes) are just so large!

It’s only the size of the shoes that matter here because any kind of shoes could be called Quadratlatschen, as long as we are talking about biiiiig shoes If you have particularly large feet, some people might be referring to your shoes as Quadratlatschen. Quadratlatschen refers to very big shoes or more generally to big feet that are in shoes. So things that are Pillepalle, are of non-important nature and are considered trivialities.ĭas ist doch alles Pillepalle! (None of that matters, really!) Pillepalle stands for things that are unimportant. The word “Paperlapapp” itself can be found in dictionaries since about 1880.Ī: Ich habe meine Hausaufgaben nicht erledigt, da ich gestern leider etwas zu spät nach Hause kam und mich dann meine Katze von der Arbeit ablenkte und mein Computer war komischerweise auch sehr langsam und…ī: Paperlapapp! Das ist doch alles nur blödes Geschwafel!Ī: I didn’t do my homework because I came home a little late yesterday and then my cat distracted me from work and my computer was strangely slow and…ī: Fiddlesticks! Don’t make up stupid excuses! However, it most likely has to do with an archaic word for mash, namely “Papp”. The etymology of the term is not 100 percent clear. Thus, this expression is used to describe someone else’s opinion as false.

Paperlapapp is used as an exclamation of rejection of empty, foolish talk, excuses, etc.

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