Are German nipples the worst?

[Crackerofdoom]

I just learned the word for nipples in German is Brustwarzen

The literal translation is "breast warts"

Is this the worst direct translation or are there more out there?

Fledermaus= bat

Love the translations too. Last year in Germany I got a train ticket and the machine had a few questions. I was asked if I was Male, Female or a Sex Diver. Now, I knew I wasn't a sex diver, or I didn't THINK I was, but for the life of me I couldn't work out what they were asking me.

I asked my knowledgable friend who said they meant 'Sex diverse'........

Fingerhut is a lovely one. Finger hat! Thimble.

This is a funny one! Pantoffelheld.
Pantoffelheld literally means 'slipper hero'.
Tough guy outside the house. Meek as a mouse with the wife at home.
In other words, a browbeaten husband.
I've never actually used this word myself, but I've read it. I've always found it funny! But actually, nobody has ever dropped it into a conversation either. I just have a vision of some big tough guy cowering at home while his wife slaps him with her slipper like it's some wet fish.
I imagine it's an old fashioned saying.

Spring onion-lauchzwiebel-leek onion!

bat = leather-flap (Icelandic)

To be honest it is nice in a lot of ways to have words that are so transparent, e.g. 'lung-inflammation' is a lot easier to understand than 'pneumonia'.

And English has some silly words as well. 'Waterfall' sounds ridiculous compared to 'foss'.

A lot of English words describe things in exactly the same way, they just use greek or latin for the descriptive bits so we don't see it in quite the same way.

So Danish for hippopotamus for flodhest literally river horse, which is exactly what hippopotamus means if you know greek.

"I'm fed up" in Catalan is "estic farta".

Definitely that in lockdown

My humble contribution is that the Welsh for carrot is moron.

Prokupatus, I am hungover and couldn't be bothered to trawl around my brain for the precise definition of smelly cheese. Sorry.

Fred - Exactly.

Television ("English" but actually Greek) = Fernseher (German) = 'far seeer' = the same thing, but only if you know Greek.

Pretentious, moi?

Midwife in Norwegian translates as 'earth mother', which I love.

Midwife in Norwegian translates as 'earth mother', which I love.

Nice! In Icelandic it's light mother. It was voted the nation's favourite word at some point I think.

Brilliant thread. I don't speak Welsh but was going to mention Popty-ping for microwave. I have Welsh clients and had coached myself to say 'goodbye' in Welsh, I couldn't remember it and blurted out 'popty-ping' instead.

That's what they say to me now instead of 'goodbye'. I'm glad they're so generous of spirit.

My brother was telling me that a jellyfish is 'cunt of the sea' in Welsh. I'm not sure about that but it's not one I'm going to learn as I don't trust myself.

Some more animal ones, again all named exactly the same as the english really (I have a 3 year old Danish niece, so i'm learning all the animals right now )

Tusindben - thousand legs - millipede

Næsehorn - nose horn - rhinocerous

Dovendyr - lazy animal - sloth

Television ("English" but actually Greek)

Not quite ...

"Tele" is Greek
"Video" is Latin.

In a fitting testament to history, I can't remember who but I can remember what they said back in the 1920s in a rather sniffy dismisall of the technology ... no good will come of this invention, it's not even named correctly (I know I could Google now, but I need something to do tomorrow).

Has anyone pointed out that the German for stockpiling is Hamsterkaufen?

(literally: Hamster shopping).

OutLoud - this is because in Germany it's possible to register the birth of an intersex child without sex specified on their birth certificate. Therefore "Sex diverse" :) But the German for it is Divers, which always makes me want to sing "Are we human? Or are we Diver?"

Meerschweinchen - little pig of the sea - guinea pig.

rumpetroll - tadpole in Norwegian

The literal translation is troll’s bum.

German nipple are the wurst...

@Frage - sorry!
You just brought up childhood memories of the awfull stuff my DF used to eat and stink out the fridge, the breakfast table, the kitchen - in fact everything. Brie would have been lovely.

groente = green stuff
Gemüse = stuff to make porridge like meals from (it is true, too, Wirsingdurcheinander, Möhrendurcheinander, Bohnendurcheinander and so on )

Way back in the mists of time, before email, before faxes, even, there was a thing called a telex, that transmitted (brief) written messages via the telephone system.

The German for telex was Fernschreibenapparat*, literally "machine for writing far away". And Fernsehenapparat (television) is a machine for seeing far away.

*I cannot guarantee that this is spelt correctly.

In Denmark there is a type of cough sweet, similar to Fishermans friend , called
SPUNK

As well as Durchfall for diarrhoea, there is Verstopfung, which I think translates as bunged-up-ness

I was disappointed that the German stift was a pen and not a penis - where is their sense of humour?