Pimpfe

Pimpf is no longer a common colloquial name for a boy before the change of voice.

Word history

Bums, Pumps, Pumpf regarded as onomatopoetic words for the audible flatulence. The form Pimpf may have been derived from the diminutive Pümpflein common, shorter and lighter with vocalization as Pümpflein.

Change in meaning

Youth Movement

With the meaning " little fart " Pimpf was initially a railing, but was around 1920 for jocular name of the youngest members in the youth movement. Also the vortex on guitar, with which the string is stretched, was designated in the youth movement as Pimpf. A small part, which is very important for the instrument however. On older comrades used the word Pimpf retained its mild pejorative meaning.

German young people

In appreciation of the intentional connotation were in the time of National Socialism from 1933, the members of the German young people (10 - to 14- year-old boys ), officially called Pimpfe and had also to call themselves squirt.

• Correct message, for example:

A newcomer in the German young people were allowed to call themselves Pimpf only when he had passed the " Pimpfenprobe ". Only then he was allowed to young people uniform off-duty pants, leather belt with belt buckle, brown shirt, scarf and leather knot also wear the shoulder strap and the HJ- airspeed indicator.