Word Origin and History for struwwelpeter
Struwwelpeter
from German, name of a character in the children's book of the same name by Heinrich Hoffman (1809-1894).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Examples from the Web for struwwelpeter
Historical Examples
Books of the "Struwwelpeter" type are less to be recommended.
The Nervous ChildHector Charles Cameron
One of the conditions is that for twenty-four years Faust is not to wash, or comb his hair or cut his nails—like Struwwelpeter.
The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'H. B. Cotterill