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#171476 - 11/20/07 12:04 PM OFFESKEITEN
journeyman
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Is this a real word or did Jack just spit out pidgion German sounds?
Phonetically it sounded: off'-ish-kiten......(add a country here)
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#171494 - 11/20/07 03:29 PM
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Aufschiessen, opschieten, means :" move on or hurry up". Could be sort of German or Dutch you heard. It's usually written in small fonts or characters.
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#171536 - 11/23/07 12:35 AM
journeyman
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Aufschiessen, opschieten, means :" move on or hurry up". Could be sort of German or Dutch you heard. It's usually written in small fonts or characters.
Hmmmm. I'm pretty sure it was an adjective, probably Dutch.
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#171849 - 12/03/07 06:59 AM
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#171850 - 12/03/07 07:23 AM
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which means, as said to move on or to hurry up.
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#174743 - 03/14/08 09:39 PM
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#174753 - 03/15/08 10:22 AM 
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German schießen 'to shoot', aufschießen 'to coil up (a rope)', and scheißen 'to shit'.
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#174757 - 03/15/08 12:05 PM
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-ron o.
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#174759 - 03/15/08 02:23 PM
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Edited by twosleepy (03/15/08 02:24 PM)
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#174767 - 03/15/08 05:51 PM
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#174770 - 03/15/08 07:16 PM
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What he said. I can't figure out what the putative word could be in German or any of the other usual suspects. the ending -keiten looks German, but yours is as good as anybody's what the offes represents. The -keiten to me looks like the standard German -keit, which forms abstract nouns out of adjectives, e.g., Niedrigkeit 'baseness' < niedrig 'base, lowly'. It's kind of like our -hood (cf. German -heit as in Gesundheit 'health') or -ness. Now it's possible, through strange transcription methods to posit a verb skeiten, which seems more Dutch than German, but that leaves the impossible offes (sounding to mine inner ear a lot like English office). The only place on the Web with offeskeiten is this thread (link). The single example of Offeskeit is a typical Google Books, old words in strange language confuses my OCR.
I also thought for a second it could be Äffischkeit 'apishness', but I got over that. Maybe a nonce word, Auskeit 'outness'. No. Häufigkeit 'frequency, commonness'?
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#174776 - 03/16/08 12:42 AM
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Is this a real word or did Jack just spit out pidgion German sounds?
Phonetically it sounded: off'-ish-kiten......(add a country here)
Perhaps it was Yiddish?
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