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  • _Wackelfiguren_ means figures made of _Wacke_, a greenish-gray mineral, soft and easily broken.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

  • Wacke a German miners 'word adopted as a geological term; from Old High German wacko, waggo ` "boulder rolling on a river bed" (AHD)]; and WALL-EYED ` having a light-colored, whitish eye or eyes; having one eye that turns out with a divergent squint; having bulging eyes' [from Middle English wawileghed, from Old Norse vagleygr].

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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