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痛車 (itasha)·A car painted with anime characters (lit: painful car, because it's painful to look at).

Japanese

бытие·Coming from the stem for being or existence, it refers to the realm of hyperconcious and objective state of mind or reality.

Russian

Daha daha·Adverb used to start a new conversation after the former one ends.

Turkish

Visâl·Long-awaited arrival, meeting, especially meeting with lover.

Turkish

Fjortis·A stereotypical immature-but-wanting-to-seem-mature teen girl. Straightened hair bleached to death, enormous amounts of make-up, overly visible thong, steals booze from parents, takes duck face photos, etc.

Swedish

Ammazzacaffè·Hard liquor usually consumed after the postprandial coffee in order to wipe the bitter taste out of the mouth.

Italian

Matkoma·Feeling tired after eating. Literal translation is Food Coma.

Swedish

Enchilado·Action of being intoxicated with the Capsaicin of a pepper and having your mouth and throat burn by it.

Mexican Spanish

Glück/Pech·Good luck/Bad luck.

German

·A term for when something is funny, but the reason it's funny is itself anti-funny.

English/Any

Khalas خلاص·I'm done/enough!/it's over/there's nothing more to be done/already - Is there a word like this in your language?.

терпила (terpila)·A person who endures all insults, humiliation and bullying, and does nothing about it; someone who is unable to fight back.

Russian

להרים להנחתה (leharim Lehanχata)·To raise for a dunk: to say something which sets someone else up to follow.

Hebrew

Innerer Schweinehund·Your inner pig dog. The part of you that makes you lazy. You have to overcome (überkommen) it to be productive.

German

Sitzriese·Someone who appears tall when sitting but normal when standing.

German

Spela Allan (lit. play Allan)·To act tough and superior, implying ridiculousness.

Przydupas·A guy who hangs around someone to gain some benefit from them.

Polish

吃喝嫖赌 chīhēpiáodǔ·To do nothing but eat, get drunk, get with hookers, and gamble (e.g. Bender).

Chinese

Paluego·A tiny bit of food that's stuck between your teeth that you fish out with your tongue and eat afterwards.

Spanish

Athāfi·Stones (usually three) upon which a cooking pot is placed.

Arabic

Absenous·A person who habitually absents.

Philippine English

Porkidetinarujo·A place where a group of young small female pigs belongs to.

Esperanto

Bringhouse·Take-home leftover food from a feast or a party.

Cebuano

fulsnygg (adj.) (lit. ugly-beautiful)·Having traits generally considered ugly/unattractive incorporated in such ways that it gives an overall beautiful impression.

Swedish

ਪੇੱਚਾ (péchchā)·A competition where two males pee in the same toilet, and the one who finishes peeing first, loses.

Punjabi

尬聊(Gà liáo)·(verb) The act of making awkward conversation.

Chinese

Ξηροντόβαλα·Ksêrodóvala : Orange juice pulp that overwhelms the orange juice, by being too numerous.

Greek

The cookie monster be eating cookies·The cookie monster is eating cookies habitually (i.e. not necessarily presently).

African American Vernacular English

Träsmak (lit. wood taste)·Sore bum from sitting on a hard surface (e.g. a wooden chair).

Swedish

Ljugarbänk (lit. liar’s bench)·Bench where old people sit and tell fanciful stories.

Swedish