[email protected] wrote: > > In Soren, on the Hunsrueck, there's a Schinderhannes restuarant; good food, > great ambience. If you get into that area, try it. "Schinder" means > "oppressor," but what the meaning of Schinderhannes is I don't know for > certain. > > Dave Ross > Denver In my Langenscheidt (1993), a Schinder is a slave driver. But, Eindruck schinden (wollen) means to try to impress, showoff. Could there have been a dialect or a vulgate in which Schinden Hans might have meant something like "big shot," or "loud mouth," or "braggart?" Stan from Livonia, MI