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This is a list of '''pseudo-German''' words adapted from the [[German language]] in such a way that their meanings in English are not readily understood by native speakers of German (usually because of the new circumstances in which these words are used in English).
* '''blitz''' or "'''[[the Blitz]]'''" (chiefly British use) – The sustained attack by the German [[Luftwaffe]] during 1940–1941, which began after the [[Battle of Britain]]. It was adapted from "[[Blitzkrieg]]" (lightning war). The word "Blitz" (a bolt of lightning) was not used in German in its aerial-war aspect; it acquired an entirely new usage in English during [[World War II]].<br/>In British English, 'blitz' is also used as a verb in a culinary context, to mean liquidise in a blender, a food processor or with a handheld blender stick.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}<br/>For the use of 'blitz' in [[American football]], see [[Blitz (gridiron football)]]; in [[rugby union]], see [[Blitz defence]]; for other uses, see [[blitz (disambiguation)|blitz]].
* '''[[Hock (wine)|hock]]''' (British only) – A German white wine. The word is derived from [[Hochheim am Main]], a town in Germany.
* '''[[wikt:nix#|nix]]''' – nothing; its use as a verb (reject, cancel)<ref>{{cite book|author=Owen W. Linzmayer|title=Apple Confidential|location=San Francisco|publisher=No Starch Press|year=1999|isbn=9781886411289|page=242|quote=... after Jobs had nixed the spin-off ...|url=https://archive.org/details/appleconfidentia00linz/page/242/mode/1up|url-access=registration|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> is not used in German; synonymous with [[86 (term)|eighty-six]]. From the German word 'nichts' (nothing).
* '''[[wikt:mox nix|Mox nix!]]''' – From the German phrase, {{Lang|de|Es macht nichts!}} Often used by U.S. service personnel to mean "It doesn't matter" or "It's not important".<ref>{{Cite book|first=Eric|last=Partridge|authorlink=Eric Partridge|year=1986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC&dq=%22mox+nix%22&pg=PA314|title=A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day|edition=2nd|page=314|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-05916-9 }}</ref>
* '''[[Strafing|strafe]]''' – In its sense of "to machine-gun troop assemblies and columns from the air", 'strafe' is an adaptation of the German verb ''[[Wikt:strafen|strafen]]'' (to punish).
==See also==
{{Wiktionary category 2|English pseudo-loans from German}}
* [[Linguistic purism in English]]
* [[List of German expressions in English]]
* [[Pseudo-anglicism]]
==References==
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{{English words of foreign origin}}
[[Category:Lists of English words of foreign origin|German]]
[[Category:Lists of loanwords of Germanic origin|English Pseudo]]