Sitzfleisch

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ability to endure or carry on with an activity. uncountable
    — Sitzfleisch: a term used in chess to indicate winning by use of the glutei muscles--the habit of remaining stolid in one's seat hour by hour, making moves that are sound but uninspired, until one's opponent blunders through boredom.
  2. A person's bottom; the posterior. slang
    — Just as he was snorting and puffing like a grampus, I chanced to observe a quite formidable scar on his Sitzfleisch. With an apology for the personal nature of the question, I asked if it was a war wound of some kind.

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Etymology tree
German Sitzfleischbor.
English Sitzfleisch
Borrowed from German Sitzfleisch.
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