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reflectoporn

reflectoporn  n.— «Reflectoporn might have been the big eBay porn craze that wasn’t, but we’ve been seeing a lot of otherwise ordinary auction items modeled by some very extraordinary looking women lately, like this perfectly hideous men’s...

lily pad

lily pad  n.— «We are already “reconfiguring our footprint”—that is, reviewing deployment of our troops globally to make us capable of applying mobile force anywhere rather than to sit in place to meet any specific threat...

tablehooter

tablehooter  n.— «In Germany cheap sounding electronic beginner keyboard instruments are called a “Tischhupe.” “Tisch” means table, “Hupe” is a car- or alarm horn, though the possibly best English...

putzteufel

putzteufel
 n.— «Putzteufel literally means cleaning devil.» —“Spotlessly German? Think Again” Deutsche Welle (Germany) Aug. 10, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

kirsch-geist

kirsch-geist  n.— «The great fruit brandies such as kirsch are fiery spirits of the fruit.…A lesser kind is made without the pits; the cherries are merely soaked with alcohol for some time. The Germans call this one kirsch-geist or...

cherry-ghost

cherry-ghost  n.— «The great fruit brandies such as kirsch are fiery spirits of the fruit.…A lesser kind is made without the pits; the cherries are merely soaked with alcohol for some time. The Germans call this one kirsch-geist or...