22-06-2026, 10:55 AM
(22-06-2026, 09:16 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Jojo: about the attestations of poxleber, let's keep our facts straight:
"Poxleber" was not found in an Austrian sermon. The sermon complains about pox-swearing in general but does not mention the example of "leber".
"Poxleber" has been found only once as an extremely rare spelling variation of the common "pocksleber" in a ca. 1500 law of the city of Kitzbuhel (Tyrol). Here, it is nothing more than a cut of meat, the liver of the male goat.
"Poxleber" has been found a few times in the work of Hans Sachs, as extremely vulgar curses uttered by peasants in his ca. 1550 carnival plays. Today's words with the same impact would be of a sexual nature, like motherf*cker or c*cks*cker. Anyone who for some reason still wishes to champion this reading should keep that in mind. It's not as mild as "goddammit" sounds today, which is why it's only written down 100 years after the VM was made, in carnivalesque contexts.
Sorry, I was actually sure because I transcribed the text back then, but I probably remembered it wrong or am confusing it with Hans Sachs