Meanings
teutonophone1
comparative more teutonophone · superlative most teutonophone
- Alternative letter-case form of Teutonophone.
Provisions are now found only in the two teutonophone nations of Europe (§ 825 BGB and § 1328 ABGB) on damage to a woman’s sexual reputation.
1998, Christian von Bar, The Common European Law of Torts, Volume One: The Core Areas of Tort Law, its Approximation in Europe, and its Accommodation in the Legal System, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Continental Europe’s Codified Law of Delict), section I (Subjects and methods of regulation within the law of liability for personal misconduct), subsection 3 (Further areas of liability for personal misconduct in European codes), subsubsection a (General overview), page 582 more examples
It sold well all over the teutonophone lands, saw a second printing in 1899, but then the Austrian censors banned it ‘primarily on grounds of piety’ for the murdered royal (ibid.).
1999 April, R. B. Pynsent, “Marinelli-König, Gertraud, and Pavlova, Nina (eds). Wien als Magnet? Schriftsteller aus Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa über die Stadt. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 1996. 613 pp. Notes. Index. Price unknown.”, in The Slavonic and East European Review, volume 77, number 2, page 329Moreover, the formulation of world literature that Marx and Engels invoked comes from the writings of Goethe, an author more closely identified with an area, the teutonophone zone, than with any nation-state.
2005, Jonathan Arac, “Global and Babel: Two Perspectives on Language in American Literature”, in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, volume 50/51, Washington State University Press, page 98
plural teutonophones
- Alternative letter-case form of Teutonophone.
Biggest mystery: How an obvious teutonophone can get away with playing an Irishman.
1997, Ray Richmond, Antonia Coffman, editors, The Simpsons™: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 1823 more examples
It's meant to say 'Gewurztraminer', with an umlaut over the 'u'. I typed it as 'Gewurztraminer', but the spell checker had the spelling with the umlaut in it, so I changed it to that. I've no idea how to pronounce it, but there are some teutonophones on this group who probably could.
1998 June 3, Matthew Lawrenson, “new page!!!!!”, in alt.games.creatures (Usenet)Then again, she might be talking about a horse of some sort, and asking how much feed the thing will go through. It's hard to say; the German is a language of great subtlety. It is interesting (as an aside) to note that, although "Stute" is "mare", it is cognate with the English "stud". Whether this argues sexual confusion among anglo- or teutonophones I am not in a position to judge.
1999 December 30, Mark Devlin, “Fütterung von Irish Tinker”, in de.rec.tiere.pferde (Usenet)The name “phonodeik,” coming from the Greek for “to show sound,” was suggested by Morley; it was reportedly pronounced phono-deek, not dike—in spite of what teutonophones might prefer.
2011, William Fickinger, “Unraveling Sounds”, in Miller’s Waves: An Informal Scientific Biography, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 66
Teutonophone2
comparative more Teutonophone · superlative most Teutonophone · alternative teutonophone · alternative Teutophone · alternative teutophone
- German-speaking.
Word Guy, as his Teutonophone alter ego, Wortkerl, must note: "Also Herr James, wie heißt denn ihr Buch?
2001 October 8, bill walsh, “? on Good Times...Good Times.....(repeat)”, in alt.tv.newsradio (Usenet)5 more examples
This chorus of signs rises to a clamor around Side, a favorite Teutonophone destination (over 80 percent of the tourists who visit this region are German, Austrian, or Swiss).
1992, “The Central Mediterranean Coast”, in Alan Tucker, editor, The Berlitz Travellers Guide to Turkey 1992, New York, N.Y.: Berlitz Publishing Company, Inc.; Oxford: Berlitz Publishing Company Ltd., →ISBN, page 404Bruno and Ernst from the international Teutonophone (German, Austrian and Swiss) expedition arrived during breakfast.
1994, Victor Saunders, No Place to Fall: Superalpinism in the High Himalaya, Vertebrate Publishing, published 2013, →ISBNJohann Kirste (1851–1920) of Graz and Vienna, Indo-Europeanist and Indo-Iranianist, is doubtless the least renowned of all those Teutonophone Indologists whose works have been reissued in the Glasenapp Foundation’s series of Kleine Schriften.
1995, J. C. Wright, “Johann Otto Ferdinand Kirste: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Walter Slaje. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 33.) [xv], 374 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 98.”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume LVIII, →ISSN, page 173, column 1Only amusement that the Teutonophone tech press, with a small number of potential readers, as compared to English, has such a rich selection of new books on the subject and of a very much higher tech standard.
2007 August 6, RapidRonnie, “Very interesting, these horrible Germans....”, in rec.audio.opinion (Usenet)The notion of a supposed Orientalisation of Rome has tended to dominate this aspect of the discussion, especially among Teutonophone scholars.
2017, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “[[Elagabal’s Idyll] Critical review of the academic literature to date] Second stage of the discussion, 1902-1962”, in Varian Studies Volume Two: Elagabal, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 136Synonyms: Germanophone
plural Teutonophones · alternative teutonophone · alternative Teutophone · alternative teutophone
- A speaker of the German language.
(The name "Gopal Balakrishnan" somehow leads me to doubt that this biographer is any more a native Teutonophone than I am....)
2001 July 9, John H. McCloskey, “A Little E-Garden of "Rule Of Law" (I)”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet)4 more examples
Bruno and Ernst from the international Teutonophone (German, Austrian and Swiss) expedition arrived during breakfast. […] The sight of the Teutonophones gave Steve one of his brilliant ideas: Bruno and Ernst could use our tents here, in exchange we would sleep at their camp on the way up to the Makalu La, kick-off point for an attempt on either Kangchungtse to the north, or the main challenge of the Makalu traverse to the south.
1994, Victor Saunders, No Place to Fall: Superalpinism in the High Himalaya, Vertebrate Publishing, published 2013, →ISBNGooch, following Acton, was concerned to show the new German professionalisation of history in the nineteenth century: clearly, only Teutonophones might apply.
1997, Owen Dudley Edwards, “Robertsonian Romanticism and realism”, in Stewart J. Brown, editor, William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire, Cambridge University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, section IV, page 117(( An interesting case. Here in the Eastern Massachusetts of John Winthrop and Cotton Mather and Calvin Coolidge and even Mitt Romney one vaguely supposes that all Teutonophones give absolutely everthing^([sic]) the patented Leo Strauss Treatment, or perhaps the discredited Adolf Hitler Treatment, automatically -- crush, Crumble, CHOMP! -- but here's a headline where they have have^([sic]) to resort to lowly English even to say what it is they want done. And yet at the same time, a Wingnut City goodie like _aufzufordern alle Bürger zum Schulterschluß im Kampf gegen den Rechtsextremismus_ can hardly be translated at all without non-Teutons and non-Straussians supposin' that you're only just makin' fun of 'em somehow. ))
2006 May 23, JHM, “VERFASSUNGSSCHUTZBERICHT!”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet)The Maryland legislature authorized the printing and distribution of two thousand copies of the Constitution, as well as three hundred copies of a German translation for Teutonophones.
2008, Bill Kauffman, Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Martin Luther, ISI Books, →ISBNSynonyms: Germanophone
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveGerman-speaking.
nounA speaker of the German language.
Origin
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teutonophone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teutonophone
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