Given that
I’m always on the lookout to widen my vocabulary, I came across a couple of new
words on the weekend:
Kummerspeck
(German): Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief
bacon.
(Clearly I
get very emotional over Christmas)
milliHelen:
The quantity of beauty required to launch one ship.
(Obviously
they don’t launch a lot of ships in […..])
Paper-belly:
A person unable to drink liquor straight, or one who grimaces after drinking.
(Assume I’m
not Robinson Crusoe when it comes to Paper-bellying the morning after)
Karoshi
(Japanese): Death from being overworked.
(You’d get a
lot of that in the Australian public service)
Lawn mullet:
A neatly manicured front yard and an unmowed mess in the back.
(Clearly
mullets are still alive and well)
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| Clearly a Paper-belly |
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