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Neomaxizoomdweebie (n) an uncool person :D
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Shadowblaze wrote:Nice name. astronomy!

convoluted:

complex, involved
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dilettante:
A dabbler in a field of knowledge or an art.

tryptych:
A work of art consisting of three painted/carved panels hinged together.
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bourn (born) noun

1. A destination or goal.

2. A boundary or limit.

[From Middle French bourne, from Old French bodne (boundary). Ultimately
from Indo-European root bhendh- (to bind) that is also the source of band,
bend, bind, bond, bundle, and bandanna.]
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Man, I can't wait for Burning Man. There'll be a waxing moon this year and the evening is always heralded by a running citywide howl at moonrise and you haven't heard a howling until you hear 32,000 humans do it in a travelling wave along a 3.5-mile crescent...

There'll be a waxing gibbous rising behind the Man on Burn Night and I hope to get a picture of that.
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barrel rolling (v)
to run at someone with the intent of hurting them.
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Quagmire

Shaky, miry ground; as a political term used to describe a foreign military campaign
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gyrovague (JYE-ro-vayg) noun

A monk who travels from one place to another.

[From French, from Late Latin gyrovagus gyro- (circle) + vagus (wandering).]
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Somniloquy:

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep.
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Hey I Do that!

(talk in my sleep that is.) :D
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:lol: My sister does it as well. Sometimes I hear her having an argument with me - it hilarious.
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I've actually had conversations with people in my sleep! :lol:
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Nascent- emerging
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hmmm, this game isn't very interesting for someone who only hardly can speak english :(
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yob :lol:
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Teenwolf:
this game isn't very interesting for someone who only hardly can speak english
But, I bet you could easily ace almost all of us on little-known German words, given that most of us don't know the commonly used ones.

How about unusual words in your native language, and what they mean in English? I'm sure there's some pretty colorful ways of describing things once you get out of the bottleneck of just the cultures that speak primarily English. That goes for anyone else here whose main cerebral operating system is something else besides the language you're reading right now.
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luft- air
Auf wiederzehn- good bye!(proper)
vierundzweizig-24
siebenunddreissig-37

I took german 1 so i know a few words
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Goeie aand, how about some Afrikaans?

Kripvreter - (derogatory) nickname for a politician.
Laventelhaan - a man who is obsessed with his appearance.
And there's always the simpler stuff...
Hou jou bek! - Shut up.
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Syzygy wrote:Kripvreter - (derogatory) nickname for a politician.
There are non-derogatory nicknames for politicians? :grinp:
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Pariah- A social outcast. ^_^

Thwart- to hinder or prevent
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Lupin wrote:There are non-derogatory nicknames for politicians? :grinp:
:lol: Not that I know of.
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