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In German, the word has a neutral connotation, e.g. Ersatzrad simply means "spare wheel" (not an inferior one). Flak , Fl ug a bwehr k anone , literally: air-defence cannon , for anti-aircraft artillery or their shells, also used in flak jacket ; or in the figurative sense: "drawing flak" = being heavily criticized
From the German word 'nichts' (nothing). Mox nix! – From the German phrase, Es macht nichts! Often used by U.S. service personnel to mean "It doesn't matter" or "It's not important". [2] strafe – In its sense of "to machine-gun troop assemblies and columns from the air", 'strafe' is an adaptation of the German verb strafen (to punish).
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Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
Slovene – Ob svetem Nikoli is a wordplay that literally means "on St. Nicholas' feast day". The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly ...
Sometimes the new words added to the dictionary can be funny, but these 100 words are agelessly silly! Of course, the way people put words together can be pretty funny, too—just take the ...
German words and phrases (6 C, 395 P) L. Lists of loanwords of Germanic origin (13 P) N. Names of Germanic origin (5 C, 14 P) Norwegian words and phrases (8 P) S.
List of pseudo-German words in English; F. ... (A-B) List of French words of Germanic origin (C-G) List of French words of Germanic origin (H–Z) G.