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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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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait overmorrow is correct English? We have "morgen" and "overmorgen" in Dutch which is tomorrow and overmorrow respectively, so I always missed an overmorrow in English. Is it actually commonly understood or will people look at me like I'm a weird foreigner when I use it?

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[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year 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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[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uxorious: devoted to one's wife.

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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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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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.

[–] viralJ@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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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[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Verantwortungsbewusstsein. Let's get back to our roots.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago
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