1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? The Georgians feel your pain. This word means, “I accidentally ate the whole thing."
You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? The Georgians feel your pain. This word means, “I accidentally ate the whole thing."
3. Tartle (Scots)
The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can't quite remember.
The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can't quite remember.
Those are just the first three on the list. I wish I knew how to pronounce Shemomedjamo (the second on the list) because I could use that one! You know, that bag of candy or half gallon of ice cream, or loaf of banana bread...shemomedjamo! I'm practicing saying it, even if my pronunciation is wrong because it is a concise explanation. I never intend to eat the whole thing, it is always an accident.
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Grrrrreat words.
ReplyDeleteWonder if you can find "how to say words, in their native language" for those words, on the Net????
They are fun and funny and impossible to pronounce. :)
DeleteKummerspeck fits me all too well. :-( And I am so guilty of Tartle. Especially tomorrow when the medical resident comes for a tour and I introduce her to other staff in the office . . . I never remember their names. The residents' names. I remember my coworkers names.
ReplyDeleteAll 3 of these have fit me at one time or another...as well as some of the others on the list. I love how precise some of the words are!
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