schnurstracks
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Schnur (“cord, line”) + stracks (“directly”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
schnurstracks
- (colloquial) straightway, straight, directly (going somewhere immediately and by the shortest way possible)
- Synonym: geradewegs
Synonyms[edit]
- While the dated simplex stracks is synonymous with sofort and thus chiefly temporal, schnurstracks also has a strongly spatial dimension.
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “schnurstracks” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “schnurstracks” in Duden online
- “schnurstracks” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon