Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Trepverter | A witty comeback you think of only when it’s too late to use | Yiddish | funny life | |
Tartle | The act of hesitating while introducing someone because you've forgotten their name | Scottish | funny event friends | |
Schlemiel | An inept, clumsy person | Yiddish | attribute funny | |
Mencolek | The trick when you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them | Indonesian | funny friends action | |
Tachiyomi | To stand in a bookstore and read a book without buying it | Japanese | society funny action | |
Kusukusu | The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women | Japanese | sound friends funny | |
Donaldkacsázás | Translated as “Donald ducking” or wandering around one’s house with a shirt but no trousers | Hungarian | funny action | |
Badkruka | Someone who refuses to enter a body of water. Eg. Get in the lake you badkruka, or am I going to have to pull you in by your beard? | Swedish | funny nature explore | |
Jayus | A joke that is so unfunny (or told so badly) that you just have to laugh. | Indonesian | funny | |
Chingada | An imaginary, horrible place where you send all those who annoy you | Spanish | funny adverse character | |
Chindogu | A person seemingly inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem, but are in fact nothing more than a useless gag | Japanese | creative funny | |
Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
Erkelmek | Teasing someone with repeating what they say | Nogay | interaction funny | |
Kabelsalat | Tangled up cables; literally “cable-salad" | German | funny physical | |
Neko-neko | Someone that has a novel idea that only makes things worse | Indonesian | funny creative | |
Warmduscher | Literal: 'A person that takes warm showers'; to describe those who have trouble stepping out of their comfort zone | German | funny attribute growth | |
Zapoi | 2+ days of drunkenness usually involving a journey or waking up in an unexpected place | Russian | funny adverse habits | |
Prozvonit | To call a mobile phone and let it ring once so that the other person will call back, saving the first caller money. | Czech | life funny event | |
Vybafnout | To jump out and say "boo" | Czech | action funny surprise | |
Schnappsidee | An idea so stupid the person must have thought of it while drunk | German | funny thinking creativity | |
Istories me arkoudes | Literal: 'stories with bears'; stories that are so crazy, they can't be true | Greek | extreme funny | |
Rhwe | To sleep on the floor without a carpet, drunk and naked | Tsonga | funny event | |
Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
Mencomot | Stealing things of small value, mostly for fun rather than out of necessity. | Indonesian | action funny | |
Seigneur-terrasse | Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café | French | funny life |