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下头 xià tóu·To quickly lose interest in a crush.

Chinese

Wegbier·A beer you have while commuting someplace.

German

scheinfrei (adj.) of students·Having passed all classes necessary to graduate (but possibly not the final exam and thesis).

German

リニアメトロ Linear Metro·Metro train using linear motor drive for power transmission.

Japanese

هل (Hal)·Indicates a question with a yes/no answer.

Arabic

Janteloven·Societal concept that you are not to think you're anyone special, or that you're better than the collective group.

Danish

啃老 (kěn lǎo)·To live off one’s retired parents/grandparents.

Chinese

Å bli tatt på fersken·To be caught red handed.

Norwegian

Tatanta (interj.)·Noticing somebody has got something new.

Malagasy

Haju and Tuoksu·A bad scent and a good scent (respectively).

Finnish

Na’Iman·A word you say to someone once they’ve come out of the shower, gotten a haircut etc.

Arabic

Bangungot·A very bad dream/nightmare that causes people to die in their sleep.

Tagalog

risvoltinato·A man who wears his pants cuffed.

圣母·Literally “female saint”, a gender-neutral term used to describe somebody who is overly politically correct and/or overly sympathetic. The terms comes from a metaphor in the famous science fiction novel “Three Body”.

Chinese

挟射(きょうしゃ/kyōsha)·Ejaculation during a mammary intercourse.

Japanese

Dygna·To stay awake for twenty-four hours.

Swedish

को ‎(ko)·Accusative Preposition.

Hindi

Disputed Paragrafryttare (lit: article rider)·A person who follows written rules to such a degree that they're seen as rigid and inflexible.

Swedish

Disputed Pocket table tennis·To play with your genitals through your pocket.

Swedish

Disputed Vergüenza ajena·When you're ashamed not because of your own actions but by somebody else's actions.

Spanish

Kråkfötter (lit. crow’s feet)·Sloppy, hard-to-read handwriting.

Swedish

Myrornas krig (lit. the war of the ants)·The b/w noise shown on an analog TV set when not tuned into a channel.

Swedish

Podes tirar o cavalinho da chuva·You can take the little horse out of the rain.

Portuguese

झूठा (Jhootha) (adj.)·Food that has already been tasted by someone.

Hindi

Tambien / Tampoco·( Too, Neither ).

Spanish

Un traquenard·A situation that sounds like funny business, a trap of some sort.

French

Küszöbgörcs (lit. threshold-cramp)·The inability to leave already.

Hungarian

Un Gloubi-Boulga·An unintelligible babbling or incoherent speech.

French

Disputed Preum’s !·Used at the end of a long car ride to determine who will go to the bathroom first.

French

tall·Of great or above average height.

English