Words in your language that are just silly.

[Dowly]

Keeping up with the other language thread, let's list some of the silly words from our wide range of languages we've got here on SUBSIM. :up:

Dragon in Finnish is 'lohikäärme', which literally means salmonsnake (lohi/käärme, salmon/snake).

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Jackie-Chan-WTF.jpg

[antikristuseke]

kuulilennuteetunneliluuk
it means "bullets flight path tunnel hatch" and is spelled the same regardless of which end you read it from.:dead:

[AVGWarhawk]

Erinaceous

Like a hedge hog.

[Jimbuna]

Snool

A servile person.

[Dowly]

Erinaceous

Like a hedge hog.

That's a great word! Latin words are always cool. :yep:


Another Finnish silliness is 'kalakukko', which literally translates to fishcock (the male chicken).

It's very tasty though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko

[Aktungbby]

Erinaceous

Like a hedge hog.
http://i.imgur.com/BPfUsqw.jpg Alaarm! Crash dive! Prepare for erinaceous attack!:-? YIPES! U-666, My avatar!! lost with all hands 2/10/44 mysteriously, but- in a postwar assessment, to HMS Fencer depthcharges- was participating in Wolfpack IGEL- (http://www.cnrs-at)at the time...actually one of Doenitz's bigger failures. Igel in German is Hedgehog!:hmmm: :shifty: :dead:

[AVGWarhawk]

Another Finnish silliness is 'kalakukko', which literally translates to fishcock (the male chicken).

It's very tasty though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko


I'll take your word for it.

[AVGWarhawk]

Flitterwochen


Fleeting week.

[Dowly]

Flitterwochen


Fleeting week.

Ah, that reminds me of the Finnish word for Leap Day, 'karkauspäivä' which literally translates to "escape day".

[HunterICX]

'Broodje Aap' translates to Monkey Sandwich

It's to desribe one's story as an Urban myth/Legend.

[Eichhörnchen]

spelled the same regardless of which end you read it from.

That is known as a "palindrome" which is silly, because it sounds like a building.

[Wolferz]

That is known as a "palindrome" which is silly, because it sounds like a building.


Isn't that where Sara hangs out?:haha:

[Dowly]

That is known as a "palindrome" which is silly, because it sounds like a building.

Speaking of which, the longest palindrome word is the Finnish saippuakivikauppias (=soapstone vendor). :yep:

[Eichhörnchen]

Don't expect you meet many of those :O:

[vienna]

Trump...



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[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/o3zT8Ro.png?1 "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"

http://i.imgur.com/xy9nxTC.jpg "Ummm... diddle-iddle-iddle, um-diddle-i..."

[Jimbuna]

METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTAMINYLARGINYL…ISOLEUCI NE

[tomfon]

:hmmm:

http://i.imgur.com/evcEzMF.gif

[Oberon]

Snollygoster

https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/719121152480649216

[Jimbuna]

Bumfuzzle

Definition:
confuse; perplex; fluster.

[Dan D]

"Butter-fly"

How can a civilised people call a Schmetterling "butterfly", that is beyond me, tossers.

[Schroeder]

flabbergasted....:doh:

[Jimbuna]

Cattywampus

Definition:
dialect : askew, awry, kitty-corner.

[Dowly]

Kustantaa meaning "publish", but it's close to kusta antaa, which means literally "to give piss".

[Eichhörnchen]

Same thing, where our newspapers are concerned :)

[Jimbuna]

Gardyloo

Definition:
Used in Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets.

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/9AYfcfN.jpg What's wrong with eichhörnchen?

[Jimbuna]

Taradiddle

Definition:
1 : a fib 2 : pretentious nonsense

[Schroeder]

Why is "pounds" abbreviated "lbs"?:doh:

[Dowly]

Why is "pounds" abbreviated "lbs"?:doh:
Because Romans, and Romans are always cool.

(Click! (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Libra.html))

[Schroeder]

Because Romans, and Romans are always cool.

(Click! (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Libra.html))
Thanks.:salute:

[Jimbuna]

Billingsgate

Definition:
coarsely abusive language

[ExFishermanBob]

"really" and "quite".

For instance, consider the difference between:-


That's good (possibly it's good, or just dismissive)
That's quite good (a little effusive)
That's really quite good (effusive)
That's really good (overly effusive)
Really, that's quite good (condescending, but a good effort for someone of your calibre).
Really, that's good (it's bad)
Really. (disbelief / I disagree / astonishment)
Really? (are you quite mad?)
Quite. (I agree wholeheartedly)
Mad (mad)
Quite mad (bonkers)
Really mad (angry)

Mind you I am English.

[ExFishermanBob]

...and don't get me started on "rather"

[Onkel Neal]

One phrase I am supremely tired of hearing is "at the end of the day"

Gwd, I hear that 50 times a day,:/\\!!

[ExFishermanBob]

At the end?

[Onkel Neal]

At the end?

Sometimes, but mostly all the time.:03:

[vienna]

So, at the end of the day, it really gets on your wick?...


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[Jimbuna]

Snickersnee

Definition:
1 archaic : to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives 2 : a large knife

Example:
"Oh, never shall I / Forget the cry, / Or the shriek that shrieked he, / As I gnashed my teeth, / When from its sheath / I drew my snickersnee!" — The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert

About the Word:
Snickersnee comes from the Dutch phrase steken of snijden, "to thrust or cut." Over time, snick and snee, snick-or-snee, and snickersnee followed.