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What does du bist ein winkelmesser mean?

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My friend said it to me on msn and she wont tell me what it means....does enyone have eny idea wot it means?

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you are a protracter (like an angle measurer) literally, but it is a form of german slang to use this as a 'you are a geek', not the nicest thing to say to someone!
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It means - "You are a w*nker!" colloquially!

EDIT...The literal intent is as stated!.....BUT what was the actual intent?...

I think that you will find that I am right!
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You are a protractor.

Literal translation.
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It means she's not a native German speaker.

Winkelmesser is a noun, a masculine, noun, so it would have been EINEN winkelmesser.

It's a Protractor, the thing that measures angles in geometry.

She probably learned the word today and was showing off.
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It means approx that you are an L-shaped blade

du bist = you are

ein = one

winkelmesser = L-shaped blade

Here's a German song something like = du ist die welt [to me] you are my world etc. blah! you know the Germans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUPZNQ-F...

The above was written by Richard Tauber possibly in the 1930s.

Here's the great man himself. . . .

Girls were Made to Love and Kiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTwdf602w...

Richard spent the entire war years here in England - an Austrian Jews - can't blame him for that.
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"You are a protractor."

And open4one is not correct in saying that it should have been "einen Winkelmesser".
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you are a protector
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