Pausbacke

Etymology

 * The word is documented since the 16th century. It is a compound formed with the noun ' and the stem of an obsolete verb whose (West Central German) Late Middle High German form was pūsen (see ') and whose Early New High German equivalent was pausen, bausen ‘to be blown-up; to billow, to distend; to swell; to be full of, to be bursting with’. In Early New High German these forms were merged with the verb bauschen whose Middle High German equivalents were biuschen and būschen ‘to beat, to knock’ which was influenced semantically by them (see ).

Noun
Translation: 1944, Thomas Mann: Joseph and His Brothers. Volume 2: The Young Joseph, A. A. Knopf, New York, p. 62 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015):
 * 1)  chubby facial cheek with a red/reddish complexion (especially of a child)
 * 2) * 1934, Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder: Roman. Volume 2: Der junge Joseph, S. Fischer, Berlin, p. 88 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015):
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- „Meine Pausbacken sind ebenfalls zart und weich“, bemerkte Benjamin und befühlte mit beiden Handflächen seine Wangen.