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?

I was amused the time I finished Stockholm to find a large women's clothes shop with the word SLUT emblazoned across all its windows. It was some kind of (closing down?) sale, I believe, but I definitely did a double-take.

Slut spurt in Danish for closing down sale/final reductions

It’s

Bussi

For little peck on the cheek granny cute type kiss

Foss was until recently a dialect word for waterfall in Yorkshire and other parts of the North - a remnant of Scandinavian settlement.

Makes sense. I think everyone should use it - it is a much more pleasing word! Do you other Nordic language speakers use foss or the equivalent of waterfall?

The Icelandic word for wedding is literally 'bride purchase'. Bit depressing.

A funny one for English speakers is krap (slushy snow).

A good one is window-weather, meaning weather that looks nice through the window but it's actually freezing or really windy.
Sadly window-weather is quite common

I like sollbruchstelle a place designed to break to prevent damage. like the bonnet of a car.

in northern germany an affectionate word for baby is schietbüdel literally bag of shit.

or schieter (literally shitter) for a toddler.
not to be mixed up with schisser = someone so frightened they might poop their pants

Foss was until recently a dialect word for waterfall in Yorkshire and other parts of the North

Like Janet's Foss - and others - I think many Yorkshire natives would recognise it as a valid word for waterfall. Foss is also waterfall in Icelandic and Norwegian and eas in Scottish Gaelic which isn't a million miles away. Swedish is closest to English - vattenfall.

"I was amused the time I finished Stockholm to find a large women's clothes shop with the word SLUT emblazoned across all its windows"

There was a chain of shops in Poland that sold clothes with 'Minge' embroidered on them. From the designer Ewa Minge.

I love "Rathaus" for "town hall"

In fact "Rat" = advice in German, "Haus" is house

• one can't always guess at meanings !

The Dutch for whipped cream is slagroom. That caused much laughter when I took 45 teenagers to Amsterdam and lots bought mini pancakes from a stall, complete with slagroom.

The Scottish bird is called a capercaillie, which means "horse of the woods". I don't understand why a small bird is a woodland horse.

bumping purely to cheer everyone up

It’s a bit awkward that the word for “tail” = Schwanz eg look at the horse’s tail, my little son.....

...can also mean Penis.....

Can I just check, OP, just how you discovered this? Presumably not when doing Primary DC German homeschooling...?!

I did German GCSE 30+ years ago and the only word I remember is ‘geldschranknacker’ which wasn’t particularly useful for the GCSE never mind everyday life

Love this thread! The Swedish för raccoon is tvättbjörn - translates as washing bear?!

Waschbär in German.

"Erklärungsnot"^ = literally "^explanation poverty"

That's being caught out with no believable excuse for something
e.g. not doing homework

Wishing everyone “Gute Fahrt” causes much hilarity among teenagers too....

Helicopter = Hubschrauber = hub screwer

"Foss was until recently a dialect word for waterfall in Yorkshire and other parts of the North"

You can still see a variation of it in Cumbria: waterfalls are called 'force', eg High Force. Also - 'fell' for hill. Norwegian 'fjell'.

DD’s favourite German book starts with

Sommerferienbegrüßungseisbecher

In short: greet the Summer holidays with a ice cream sundae.

Or Donaudampfschifffahrtskaptainsmütze

The cap of a captain of a Danube steam steam

We love long words, it drives my British colleague’s crazy.

This thread has me cracking up and has cheered me greatly whilst having a bad day haha

@fascinated. You'd like Schlappschwanz, then. An insult meaning "limp...".

I heard someone say this at work!!

Also curious as to what piqued the OP's interest in this subject

I love Papierkrieg = Paper war = bureaucracy, back and forth of official letters.

Milchmaedchenrechnung = Milkgirl bill = a financial plan that is basically unworkable

And am Arsch der Welt - the Arse of the World.

They've seen Plymouth (well, Union Street) on a Saturday night, then. Mind you, they made it like that. We always thought they should probably be invited back to do a proper job on it.

A wimp = weichei = soft egg

Don’t mention the war.

Please.