Interesting Words (moved from Games)

[Pacifica]

char - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (Not the verb meaning "burn"; this is another word, a doublet of "chore".)

 

[Pacifica]

Not the verb meaning "burn"

They appear to be cognates, though! I wouldn't have guessed.

 

[Clemens]

I only ever heard it in the compound charwoman.

 

[Pacifica]

drôle de guerre - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

 

[Clemens]

drôle de guerre - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

I can remember when I first came across this phrase and thought, "Funny war?"

 

[Pacifica]

This gave us English "stove" and the Danish and Norwegian word for "living room", "stue".

 

[Pacifica]

كيوت - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

 

[Pacifica]

womanface - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

 

[Pacifica]

wale - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

 

[Pacifica]

To snart: to sneeze and fart at the same time.

 

[interprete]

English word bint, from Arabic, meaning girl. I just found out about it from Monty Python, tried to add it to the thread on Arabic words but did not manage to post the screenshot of the text.

 

[Clemens]

English word bint, from Arabic, meaning girl. I just found out about it from Monty Python, tried to add it to the thread on Arabic words but did not manage to post the screenshot of the text.

Is that when the peasant gets worked up into a tirade about the Lady of the Lake?

 

[interprete]

Is that when the peasant gets worked up into a tirade about the Lady of the Lake?

Yes!

 

[moh934934]

Bumfiddle (an unorthodox translation by a budding English latinist of "ars musica").

 

[Pacifica]

orlay - Wiktionary, the free dictionary