aufmucken
German, verb/ˈaʊ̯fˌmʊkn̩/
aufmucken is spelled A-U-F-M-U-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 172,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aufmucken is a German verb meaning “to be defiant, to protest (against) something, to rebel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich widersetzen (häufig erfolglos)”.
What does aufmucken mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto be defiant, to protest (against) something, to rebel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich widersetzen (häufig erfolglos)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aufmucken
- muckt auf present singular third-person
- muckte auf past
- aufgemuckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- aufmuckend participle present
- aufzumucken infinitive infinitive-zu
- mucke auf first-person indicative present
- mucken auf first-person indicative plural
- muckst auf indicative present second-person
- muckest auf second-person singular subjunctive
- mucket auf plural second-person subjunctive
- muckten auf first-person indicative plural
- mucktest auf indicative preterite second-person
- mucktet auf indicative plural preterite
- muck auf! imperative singular
- mucke auf! imperative singular
- muckt auf! imperative plural
- aufgemuckt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aufmucken?
- /ˈaʊ̯fˌmʊkn̩/
- [ˈaʊ̯fˌmʊkn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aufmucken in German?
aufmucken appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).