So apparently there is a German word hamsterkauf, meaning bulk buying, like people are currently doing for toilet paper here. Please tell me it is true! It is so cute!
Got me thinking about other cool words in people’s native or second language.
In Japanese there is a word ‘iru - to be present’ and ‘rusuban - being out of the house’ which are combined to ‘irusuban’ meaning when u are actually in but pretend to be out.
Dutch has some nice names for animals. Some examples: nijlpaard = horse of the Nile, hippopotamus; aardvarken = pig of the earth, aardvark (which is the african word) ; lapjeskat = patch cat, calico; Luipaard = lazy horse, leopard; dolfijn = wild fine, dolphin.