rücklings

German

Etymology

Rücken +‎ -lings

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʁʏklɪŋs/
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  • Hyphenation: rück‧lings

Adverb

rücklings

  1. backwards
    Er fiel rücklings ins Gebüsch
    He fell backwards into the shrubs.
    • 1912, Martin Luther, Lutherbibel von 1912, Genesis 9:23 (with KJV translation)
      Da nahmen Sem und Japheth ein Kleid und legten es auf ihrer beider Schultern und gingen rücklings hinzu und deckten des Vaters Blöße zu; und ihr Angesicht war abgewandt, daß sie ihres Vater Blöße nicht sahen.
      And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
  2. on one's back
    Sie rutschte rücklings den Hang hinunter.
    She slid down the hill on her back.

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