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Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"Overmorrow" is actually not obscure or obsolete at all in german.
"Übermorgen" is quite often used (at least around me)

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[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Uxorious: devoted to one's wife.

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[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My contribution is katzenjammer, which is a word describing a really bad hangover (in the English language). I believe it is used a bit differently in the German language, but don't take my word for it.

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[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Twaddle: something insignificant or worthless or another word Nonsense.

Discovered this word while reading the dictionary during silent reading in English and they wouldn’t let me play games.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

There used to be a Scottish football ⚽ player called Kevin Twaddle. Always amused me.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lugubrious - because it means the opposite of how it sounds!

It's fun to say, but is defined as sadness, which the word can't evoke

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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Jocund: cheerful and lighthearted.

From Romeo and Juliet:

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Defenestrate means to throw out of a window.

For example, "Someone should defenestrate Putin."

[–] viralJ@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Something I learnt recently and which is rampant on gay social apps: sphallolalia - flirting that doesn't lead to meeting irl.

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[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Salitter is my answer to this one every time.

The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind.

Here, also.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Seems like every time you use it you'll end up having to explain what it means unless you're playing D&D

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Crepuscular. Related to twilight, dimness, the golden hour.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Verantwortungsbewusstsein. Let's get back to our roots.

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