Suggested Germanisms
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A person that is said to despise or undervalue art, beauty, intellectual content, and/or spiritual values. Also materialistic, to favor conventional social values unthinkingly, and to favor forms of art that have a cheap and easy appeal (e.g. kitsch).
You, sir, are a banause, a member of the "great unwashed"
a huge gut obtained from drinking massive quantities of beer
Look at all the old guys with their beer bellies hanging out of their tye dye shirts and leather jackets.
Someone who's constantly grinning, cheshire cat.
Look, she's grinning like a Grinsekatze
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Stud, Stallion, also guy who has the "magic" to get any chick he wants
Hey, did you know that Tammy has a new Hengst?
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young woman wonder, old-school for spectacular young German woman
Beautiful, look at the Fräuleinwunder sitting at the table next to us!
A skinny, nerdy guy
Look at that dude, what a Hanswurst
transl. dumb-head: stupid person, dumbbell, blockhead, fool
OMG, he's such a Dummkopf!
Explanation/Description: A Köttelbecke is the informal term for a formerly natural small river or ditch that can also be channelized and is misused as a sewage channel. That was common practice in the days of coal mining in the Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr Area) as there were no alternative ways of sewage disposal. Köttelbecke is a typical Ruhrdeutsch (Ruhr Area dialect) word. Köttelbecke is also used for any not channelized river that smells bad, in a rather humorous fashion. Translation: Köttel is an informal Ruhrdeutsch word for Kot (feces, dung) and is also used in combination with other words like Pferdeköttel(horse-dung). Becke is a word describing small rivers.
Whoa! This Köttelbecke really stinks!
"wild as/like a bird", often used in southern germany (bavaria, etc. ) to descirbe a revolutionary or innovative idea in a rather ironic way. It is usually only applied to the behaviour of a person, and not to describe an object (unless, for example, its a really strange piece of modern art...)
You painted your walls with exclusively bright green? Thats vogelwild!
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