to fob off, to get rid of a request, a caller, visitor etc., often by means of pretext
çekim: geçmiş wimmelte ab · ortaç abgewimmelt · şimdiki wimmelt ab · ulaç abwimmelnd
eş: ausschlagen, loswerden, zurückweisen
köken: 19th century. Ostensibly from ab- (“off”) + wimmeln (“to teem, to move in a confused crowd”). The meaning could perhaps be understood as “to keep such a crowd away, move out of it”. However, a more satisfying interpretation as “to wave aside” can be based on cognate Low German wiëmeln, wemeln, which also has the sense “to wag, wave”. Compare German abwinken (“wave aside”), abwiegeln (“appease”),…
aile: Abwimmlung
Die Nachbarn wollten mich schon wieder zu ihrer Teerunde einladen, aber ich habe sie möglichst freundlich abgewimmelt.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti Proto-Italic *meitō Old Latin mītō Latin mittō Old Spanish meter Spanish meter Inherited from Old Spanish meter, from Latin mittere (“to send”). The semantic shift from "send" to "put" probably occurred in Vulgar Latin. Cognate with English mess and also mission,…
aile: a todo meter, mete dos y saca cinco, metedura, meter cabe, meter el dedo, meter el palo en candela, meter floro, meter la cuchara, meter la nariz, meter la pata
to willow/beat wool with a stick so that it does not form lumps · to quilt (to construct a duvet or anything similar that contains batting by stitching it) · to palm off
çekim: geçmiş sırımış · ortaç sırımış · şimdiki sırıyır
köken: Likely from Proto-Turkic *sï̄rïk (“pole; rod”). Compare Azerbaijani sırıq (“duvet stitch”), dialectally also "a pole to shake/knock the nuts from the tree"