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What's so bad about dogs?

In colloquial German we often use the prefix "hunds-" or "hunde-" to aggravate a negative attribute from various adjectives, e.g. hundsgemein hundeelend hundemüde This painting by François-...
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What is the original meaning of the augmentative "stock-"?

For several adjectives we can build an augmentative by adding the prefix "stock-" Gestern Nacht war es hier stockfinster. Stocksteif bleib er stehen und bewegte sich nicht von der Stelle. Hans ...
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