файно n.— «Here we can see the influence of English (файно is a Russified version of “fine”) and the ad industry (чисто...
myloon n.— «The word he used in Parsee Gujarati which I have rendered as “chicks” was “Mylaaon.” It’s a word which has come to mean in the demotic argot ‘girls’, ‘chicks’, ‘totty’ etc.…”I think it...
asparagus field n.— «Hundreds of citizens’ groups have sprung up in Germany to battle “Verspargelung der Landschaft”—a new phrase in the German lexicon—meaning “the transformation of the German landscape into an...
Verspargelung der Landschaft n.— «Hundreds of citizens’ groups have sprung up in Germany to battle “Verspargelung der Landschaft”—a new phrase in the German lexicon—meaning “the transformation of the German landscape...
igobe n.— «He has coined another phrase comparing what is happening within the Parliamentary Advocacy Forum (PAFO) to igobe (Runyankore-Rukiga for dogs on heat). “You see when dogs are in igobe, they cease reasoning. They sometimes...
kalo-kalo
n.— «Kalo-kalo: 1. One armed bandit. 2. Amusement arcade game machines.» —by Babawilly Babawilly’s Dictionary of Pidgin English Words and Phrase (Nigeria) , 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)