Pfifferling

 Pfifferling on German Wikipedia

Middle High German phefferlinc, Old High German phiferia, related to Pfeffer (“pepper”). In the figurative sense apparently a reference to its (former) ubiquity.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpfɪfɐlɪŋ/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪfɐlɪŋ/ (most speakers in northern and central Germany)

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Pfifferling m (strong, genitive Pfifferlings, plural Pfifferlinge)

1. chanterelle

   Synonyms: Eierschwammerl, Reherl

2. (figurative) trifle (anything of little importance or worth)
   • 1794, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Siebenter Gesang”, in Reinecke Fuchs [Reynard the Fox] (Goethe's neue Schriften), page 259:

     Weiter nichts? versetzte der Fuchs. Das ficht mich nun alles / Keinen Pfifferling an. […]

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• keinen Pfifferling wert sein

• Pfeffer

• → Italian: finferlo
• → Kashubian: peperlëszka

• “Pfifferling” in Duden online
• “Pfifferling” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Pfifferling” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.