We even have a regional word from that: “Entenklemmer”, which translates verbatim to “duck pincher”.
Some folks when leaving their ducks out of the enclosure, they’d check each duck for an egg in said pipeline. If there was one, they wouldn’t let that duck out, because well, they wanted that egg.
So, an Entenklemmer is a scrooge, someone going to great lengths to not miss out on even tiny profits.
It could be a conjugated form of the verb “knuspern”, which means eating something crispy.
Knusper itself is also used in an entirely different context to express that someone is weird or has mental problems. Then you could say someone is not knusper or “nicht ganz knusper”.
It can also be onomatopoeia for eating something crispy. So, imagine a comic where a hamster is nibbling away at a cracker, then above that can be written:
KnusperKnusper
(basically CrunchCrunch)
But yeah, thanks for the rest of the explanation. I chose this username essentially at random when signing up here, but it’s been growing on me. Just a fun word in our language.
Back when I was a kid you would fight over the vice-grips you used to turn the shaft where the missing channel knob was supposed to be. The vice grips doubling as a makeshift cosh was integral to the conflict.
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