teutophone

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Teutophone¹

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From Teuto- + -phone.

adjective Teutonophone · teutonophone · teutophone

  1. not comparable German-speaking. Although numerous futuristic details are evoked—blepophones, nuclear hang-lines, portable artificial lungs for cancer victims, the transformation of the map of Europe into “Teutophone” and “Francophone” states—Burgess is at pains to keep the world recognizable.

    Similar: Germanophone

noun Teutophones · Teutonophone · teutonophone · teutophone

  1. A speaker of the German language. For non-Teutophones (?), the "GmbH" translations are as follows: / (mine) "Store with limited action" (actually makes some sense!) / Official: "Company with limited liability" / Unofficial: "Comrades with limited brain mass"

    Similar: Germanophone

teutophone²

adjective

  1. not comparable Alternative letter-case form of Teutophone [previous message: “There are other things than Google - www.wein-plus.de, for instance, where I found the following: Im Burgund wuchs die Rebe[…]”] Thanks - sometimes I forget being teutophone .

noun teutophones

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Teutophone Frühe Klaviersonaten…how fortunate teutophones are with the word Klavier, so much more in general use with them than ‘keyboard’ with us.

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"teutophone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/teutophone.

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@misc{teutophone_2026,
  title = {teutophone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/teutophone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}