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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

aufgebrezelt

English translation:

to soup up / to spiff up

Added to glossary by Paula Price
Dec 6, 2006 20:29
17 yrs ago
German term

aufgebrezelt

German to English Marketing Advertising / Public Relations
Das Produkt hält sich an Standards und funktioniert mit anderen Server-basierenden Skriptsprachen wie PHP. Der Hersteller YYYY hat damit bereits seine Website aufgebrezelt und will – bei minimaler Lernkurve – den Traffic darauf nahezu verdoppelt haben.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +5 to soup up / to spiff up
4 to dress up
3 tarted up
3 polished
Change log

Aug 3, 2007 14:02: NGK changed "Field" from "Bus/Financial" to "Marketing" , "Field (specific)" from "IT (Information Technology)" to "Advertising / Public Relations"

Discussion

Stephen Sadie Dec 6, 2006:
Paula, I think this is more of a marketing category question honestly

Proposed translations

+5
31 mins
German term (edited): aufbrezeln
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to soup up / to spiff up

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Peer comment(s):
agree Colin Newberry : Like this one best because "tart" sounds cheap (Nutte).
10 mins
agree SCocron (X) : "spiffed up" would work well here
1 hr
agree Nicole Schnell : Sounds good. No connotation "Nutte" or our all-American pop tart Britney would start one fine law suit.
3 hrs
agree Isla
5 hrs
agree David Earl : If the target language is AmE, then "soup up" sounds like it keeps the colloq. tone to me.
7 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks a lot!"
6 mins

to dress up

Example:

"Still, for someone with a small budget who wants to dress up a website with some finance bling, a free stock chart or quote list from Google could be handy"

www.irwebreport.com/daily/2006/10/04/free-finance-gadgets-a...

and for explaining the German term:

aufbrezeln: sich schick machen
entnommen aus: "Wörterbuch der Jugendsprache" von www.pons.de/jugendsprache
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17 mins

tarted up

tart = aufgebrezeltes Mädchen
Der Ton ist hier betont colloquial, also passt "tarted up" besser.
Peer comment(s):
disagree SCocron (X) : negative connotation
1 hr
so is "aufgebrezelt"!
agree Nicole Schnell : No negative connotation in the US. I like it. Female pop singers are called pop tarts.
3 hrs
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52 mins

polished

another option which could well work here
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