/ SKREEV /
Scottish Gaelic
The tingling sensation on the upper lip that occurs in anticipation of drinking whisky. A wonderfully specific word from the Scottish Gaelic tradition.
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Kummerspeck
— Excess weight from emotional eating
/ KOO-mer-shpek /
Literally 'grief bacon'. The weight you gain from stress or emotional eating. One of the most darkly relatable German compound words.
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Backpfeifengesicht
— A face badly in need of a fist
/ BAHK-pfey-fen-geh-zicht /
Literally 'a face that needs to be slapped'. The perfect word for someone who just has one of those faces. Used humorously.
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The feeling of looking worse after a haircut. A very specific but universally relatable experience.
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Jayus
— A joke so bad it becomes funny
/ JAY-oos /
A joke so unfunny, or told so badly, that you can't help but laugh. English has no single word for this phenomenon.
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Verschlimmbessern
— To make something worse while trying to improve it
/ fer-SHLIM-bess-ern /
The act of making something worse in an attempt to improve it. Every developer has experienced this with a 'quick fix'.
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