Thank you Susan for my trip down memory lane...Like the other responses...my Uncle Nick called me that... Ann From: "SV" <davesusanv@hotmail.com> Reply-To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] schnickel fritz Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:56:32 -0700 >Hi, > >The other day a term from my childhood came to mind, the term "schnickel >fritz". It was a term of endearment really, sometimes used for a rascal. >Little kids and dogs were sometimes called that, I guess it's why it came >to >mind. We have a puppy with a different name, but it just came to me to say >"come here you little schnickel fritz" to play with him. > >I was wondering if anyone else has heard it used or had a different meaning >for it. > > > >Another kind of funny twist with it was that I saw it used online for the >name of a flower or something, and the person selling the flowers had the >last name Kirchhoff, which was my grandmother's maiden name. > > > >Thanks, > >susan > > > > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message