Will someone German-speaking answer this for me?
What does 'schlenker' mean?
My friend will not enlighten me.
Answers: The origin is Suebian (not Yiddish)
Here is a join to a Suebian English dictionary
http://www.schwaebisch-englisch.de/con/v...
Everybody had it right.
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1 st. Any uncontrolled loose movement within a joint is "schlenkern" (the verb). E.g. as a gawky person swinging her arms (and buttocks)
2nd. When driving a saloon it means to swerve (in an uncontrolled manner) -- what we bid in America the "curb check" would be contained by German a "Schlenker"
3rd. Yes, it also means "straying" (as contained by marital fidelity)
4th and final. My suspicion, your friend have no idea what her heading stands for, except that it was German. (I hold yet to assemble a Suebian called "Schlenker" trying to covering from the family first name.)
sway Your friend won't tell you because your friend doesn't know any. Google it.
To swerve or to dodge I think. A "Schlenker" contained by terms of driving a vehicle is something you should definitely avoid: The words designates an unprecendented or uncontrolled move. Talking going on for people, the verb "schlenkern" process "to shake one's limbs", and designates a person who is a bit tall, slim, and uses "body language" (gestures) frequently; you'd vote "er schlenkert" oder "sie schlenkert", depending on whether male or womanly. To all that I know, the word have a yiddish origin, but don't ask me roughly speaking the Hebrew.
When you stop first at your mistress place before proceeding home to your wife and bring up to date her you made a schlenker at your office. to swing; to dangle (one's arms)
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
I'm German and I can speak about you that Mark H got it right! The correct possession is "schlenkern" as a verb or "Schlenker" as a noun. A car for example can spawn a Schlenker which means it swings around something.
Hope this help! Ok those answers are right in the dictionary language, but in slang it mode Lazy or to slouch
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