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Maskenball – German slang for fighting with NBC-protective gear, or at least with gas mask; Maultier – Sd.Kfz. 4 half-track truck, German for mule; Maus – "mouse"; nickname for a large, Porsche-designed super-heavy tank, the heaviest tank ever actually built and tested, that never passed beyond prototype stage.
Kraut is a German word recorded in English from 1918 onwards as a derogatory term for a German, particularly a German soldier during World War I. The term came up after the American entry into World War I, which followed the Turnip Winter and had resulted in the food trade stop for Germany through neutral states. The analogy of this term is the ...
Developments and discoveries in German-speaking nations in science, scholarship, and classical music have led to German words for new concepts, which have been adopted into English: for example the words doppelgänger and angst in psychology. Discussion of German history and culture requires some German words.
Military slang is a colloquial language used by and associated with members of various military forces. This page lists slang words or phrases that originate with military forces, are used exclusively by military personnel or are strongly associated with military organizations.
The German word Maus is cognate to the English word "mouse", [117] and also reminiscent of the German verb mauscheln, which means "to speak like a Jew" [118] and refers to the way Jews from Eastern Europe spoke German [119] —a word etymologically related not to Maus but, distantly, to Moses. [118]
A Tennessee school board voted 10-0 to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus," which details the horrors of the Holocaust.
Slang is defined as words that typically don't last more than a generation, like "groovy" or "nifty" in the 70s. When words are taken from a lexicon, a group of stable words that don't come in and ...
Slang term for FIBUA) FIST – Future Integrated Soldier Technology (UK), Fire Support Team (US) FISTV – Fire Support Team Vehicle (US) FITOW – Further Improved TOW (US) FLEA – Frangible Low-Energy Ammunition (i.e. a fragmentation grenade or a low-yield IED) FLIR – forward-looking infra-red; FLOT – forward line of own troops