backfisch

Examples

• I wish I could see myself as you see me -- foreshortened into a backfisch.

  Howards End

• In English there is flapper, in French there is ingénue, and in German there is backfisch.

  Chapter 11. American Slang. 1. Its Origin and Nature

• The orchestra plays Grieg and Moszkowski; a smell of chocolate is in the air; that tall, pink lieutenant over there, with his cropped head and his outstanding ears, his _backfisch_ waist and his mudscow feet -- that military gargoyle, half lout and half fop, offends the roving eye.

  Europe After 8:15

• The German mother broke out in angry remonstrance, indicating that she had neuralgia and the _backfisch_ a cold in the head.

  Dangerous Ages

• She resented the kind of quasi-guardianship that this clever _backfisch_ assumed towards her, though she knew it meant that Nora had fallen in love with her.

  Lady Connie