Hello,
I tried the dictionary, but I'm afraid my high school German isn't quite up to par.
I know this is a long shot. I am working on a family tree to share with my relatives at Christmas time. My grandfather passed away about 20 years ago, so my memory is a little faded. He came to America from Munich when he was a boy and would mix German in with his English from time to time. The one phrase that he would say all the time was something like (and again I apologize for the phonetic spelling) but it sounded like:
"Hough und a sock und a sugane."
"Hoog an a sock an a so ga nae."
It seemed like a an expression of disgust or frustration, much like I might say "What the heck!" or "Give me a break!"
Nobody in my family knows what it means, if anything. It could just have been non-sense words because he didn't want to curse in front of his grandchildren.
Thank you in advance for any light that you may be able to shed on this family mystery.
Crash
I tried the dictionary, but I'm afraid my high school German isn't quite up to par.
I know this is a long shot. I am working on a family tree to share with my relatives at Christmas time. My grandfather passed away about 20 years ago, so my memory is a little faded. He came to America from Munich when he was a boy and would mix German in with his English from time to time. The one phrase that he would say all the time was something like (and again I apologize for the phonetic spelling) but it sounded like:
"Hough und a sock und a sugane."
"Hoog an a sock an a so ga nae."
It seemed like a an expression of disgust or frustration, much like I might say "What the heck!" or "Give me a break!"
Nobody in my family knows what it means, if anything. It could just have been non-sense words because he didn't want to curse in front of his grandchildren.
Thank you in advance for any light that you may be able to shed on this family mystery.
Crash