Etymology

sitzkrieg

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Today it means: Warfare without any military operations or campaigns; a stalemate. Full definition →

German Sitzkrieg
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromSitzkrieg“sitting war”
  2. English todaysitzkrieg

Borrowed from German Sitzkrieg (“sitting war”), a pun on Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”).

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