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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "scharf" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "scharf" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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I was looking up this word and found out it also meant hot/spicy. So, of course, I had to find out if that meant hot and spicy in the kitchen or hot and spicy in the bedroom as well. Sure enough, I saw “auf jemanden scharf sein” …so, apparently both?
On a related note, when do you drop the “Horny German – The Idioms They Didn’t Teach You In School” article? :D
Yeah, “scharf” can be used in the context of “sexually attractive” or “hot”, but I think the word “hot” is WAY more common in German too.
“scharf auf” is not necessarily sexual, and it’s a quite common phrasing actually
– Ich bin nicht scharf auf den Film.
– I’m not keen on the movie.
As for the article… my parents put my browser to “safe mode” so I wouldn’t really do my usual in-depth research that I do for each article for an adult themed post. So this will have to wait.