wacker

wacker (plural wackers)

1. (UK, Liverpool) A Liverpudlian; a resident of Liverpool, England.
   • 1993, Anthony Griffiths, Scouse Wars, Bluecoat Press, →ISBN, page 6:

     Wackers are the inhabitants of the city of Liverpool – famed for their humour, football, dockers and judies. Wackers eat scouse and wet nellies. Wackers and Woollybacks are tough yet warm breeds. Although both are Northerners, they are different in many ways; culture and traditions and even language divides them.

wacker

1. comparative form of wack: more wack

• “wacker”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• awreck, cawker

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old High German wacchar. Cognate with Old English wacor (whence dialectal English waker), Old Norse vakr, Dutch wakker and possibly Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈvakɐ/

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• Hyphenation: wa‧cker; pre-1996: wak‧ker

wacker (strong nominative masculine singular wackerer, comparative wackerer, superlative am wackersten) (dated)

1. brave

   Synonyms: mutig, tapfer

   • 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches […] ‎, section 80:

     […] in jenen Zeiten als die Häupter der griechischen Philosophie und die wackersten römischen Patrioten durch Selbsttödtung zu sterben pflegten.

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2. honest, reputable

   Synonyms: rechtschaffen, ehrlich, anständig, redlich

   • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎:

     Ich gäb’ was drum, wenn ich nur wüßt’, / Wer heut der Herr gewesen ist! / Er sah gewiß recht wacker aus, / Und ist aus einem edlen Haus;

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3. efficient

   Synonym: tüchtig

4. alert, vigilant, waker

   Synonym: wachsam

   • 1545, Luther-Bibel, Lukas 21:36:

     So seid nun wacker allezeit und betet, daß ihr würdig werden möget, zu entfliehen diesem allem, was geschehen soll, und zu stehen vor des Menschen Sohn.

     Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.

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• “wacker” in Duden online
• “wacker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache