trimmen

Ca. 1900, from English trim, from Old English trymman. The sense “work out” perhaps after the English expression keep in trim. This sense appears simultaneously in Dutch and German in the later 1960s, so one may have borrowed it from the other.

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• Rhymes: -ɪmən

trimmen

1. to work out, especially to jog
2. to trim the hair of a dog or a horse

Late 19th century, at first in nautical parlance, from English trim, from Old English trymman. For the sense “work out” compare the Dutch entry above.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʁɪmən/

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• Hyphenation: trim‧men

trimmen (weak, third-person singular present trimmt, past tense trimmte, past participle getrimmt, auxiliary haben)

1. (nautical, aviation) to trim
2. to trim (a dog's hair, a man's beard, etc.)
3. (with auf) to give the appearance, look or air (of); to decorate (as); to make (someone/something) up (as) [with accusative ‘someone/something’ and auf (+ predicate adjective) ‘in a particular way’]

   Wir haben das Restaurant als antik getrimmt.

   We made the restaurant look antique/decorated the restaurant in an antique style.

4. (transitive) to drill or condition [with accusative ‘someone’ and auf (+ accusative) ‘for a behaviour/behavior or mindset’]
5. (reflexive, dated) to work out, to keep oneself physically fit through exercise [chiefly 1970s and 80s]

• Trimmen, Trimmer, Trimmung
• Trimm-dich-Pfad, Trimm-dich-Rad