collections of words

Kaltmamsell
April 17, 2025
We are looking for a kitchen helper (“Kaltmamsell”) with experience to work in a restaurant in Berlin Charlottenburg job ad
Tschüssikowski
April 17, 2025
If you want to sound particularly relaxed, don't say goodbye quietly when you say goodbye, but loud and booming bye bye. There are few ways to show more clearly that only one thing is loose: a screw. Luckily you rarely hear it.
Backfisch
April 17, 2025
A trusted term for an adolescent girl since the early 20th century. The word originally comes from the fishing Latin of the British Isles: A fried fish there is a fish that the fisherman throws back into the sea from the net because it is too young or too skinny to eat. Since the late 1950s, young people who are neither fish nor flesh, i.e. no longer children and not yet adults, have been referred to as teenagers across the sexes. Fried fish is only available in stick form in the freezer.
Katzenjammer
April 17, 2025
Bedeutung umgangssprachlich: unangenehme körperliche Nachwirkungen von übermäßigem Alkoholgenuss (verbunden mit seelischer Niedergeschlagenheit und Reuegefühlen)
Herbstmilch
April 17, 2025
The term “autumn milk” comes from the German-speaking world and refers to the milk production of cows in autumn. In the fall, as days become shorter and temperatures drop, feeding conditions for cows change as grass growth slows. This can affect the quantity and quality of milk produced.
weismachen
April 17, 2025
It's too childish what the audience is led to believe. Frank Wedekind: “Earth Spirit” German is incredibly rich in words and expressions for deceiving, fooling, persuading, dumbing down... Does this wealth of expression reflect ancient human experience?