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How did the word "Pumpernickel" evolve from meaning "Flatulent Goblin" into "Dark Rye Bread"?
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October 30th, 2010
Pumpernickel
”...“dark rye bread,” 1756, from Ger. (Westphalian dialect) Pumpernickel (1663), originally an abusive nickname for a stupid person, from pumpern “to break wind” + Nickel “goblin, lout, rascal,” from proper name Niklaus. An earlier Ger. name for it was krankbrot, lit. “sick-bread.”...”
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