Favourite German words

smetterling - butterfly

My favourite German word is a name: "Regensburgerbrücke". It's in Landshut.

schwakopf - weak head

Arsch mit Ohren.

Sorry guys, I think I may have to step up as TT pedant today.

The words are Schmetterling and Schwachkopf

affe hänge von hartlepool

Geil

Geil

warzenschwein- wart hog

haifischschwanzfleischsuppe- sharkfin meat soup

sarabird trying to do it from memory can be hard please forgive me for my error... however spelling corrections are a form of learning for the keen eyed tt and therefore is a positive responce.. I emplore people who like to be correct

Haifischflossensuppe. No meat, no tail.

Nacktschnecke for a slug.

Dünnbrettbohrer - thin plank driller?

Silvester - I wish we had a better term for New Years Eve

Hochseetaugliche Laderaumsaugbagger trips pleasantly off the tongue

Fischers Fritz fischt frische Fische

Mahlzeit ...because it's so Prolli
Spiegeleifigur ...Bavarian origins: for someone with a pot belly i.e. needs a 'Spiegel' to see their 'Eier'

sarabyrd... Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe - is a tongue twister according to http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/de.htm see number 52

Sekt.

Genau!

-and-

zum Teufel - as in: "Wie zum Teufel?!?"

Doch!

Doch doch!

Doch doch ... (wait for it) ... goose!

Tongue-twisters could be next Friday's thread. Perennial favorite is Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid.
P.S. Among my top 10 words is Dickmilch - it always makes me giggle.

Ah, dickmilch! A goodie.
Like whipped cream in Holland is called Slagroom!

Heimscheisser - same as Warmduscher (wimp)

Denkzwerg

Affen Geil = Horny ape ???

Fischers Fritz fischt frische Fische

I always heard it as Fischers Fritze fischte frische Fische - easy for us to say!

Another one that really gets to me is when you are watching German T.V. and Wincent Price stars in a film.There is no bloody W in the German langauge and they then change a V in to a W ???

Yeah, that gets me too. I once had a German tell me: "I had a Wisitor at the Veekend".

Hang on, though, this thread is supposed to be about words you like (there's another one somewhere for German words you can't stand). One of my favourites is Gummiadler - "rubber eagle" - for when you were expecting a nice tender chicken but got a tough old bird.

Got me there G.T.another one i like is habe die ehre

Gelsenkirchener Barock, Bottroper Palme, Murmeltier, Abschleppdienst.

umgebung but pronounced with a short middle syllable (ge). same with hofoldinger (forst) but pronounce the first two syllables short.

i'll miss messing with german pronunciation.

Weser Renaissance, rheinische Kapitalismus

Hi! This is my first post on here as I just happened to stumble across this site

I love the words:

Geil and...
Doch- I chose it for my username as I agree in that there is no direct translation into English and it's a very useful word. (I think we should adopt it into our language)

Has anyone heard of the expression: "Es ist der Hammer" I think it means That's aweosme! But not sure- it's definately positive in the same way that geil is. Anyone know a translation?

Kniekehle is also good, there´s no english translation for that either...

Hausordnung

Auspuff

Um-lei-tung (supposedly the Chinese minister of transport)

[quote name='Doch' date='Oct 22 2006, 9:06 pm' post='73868Has anyone heard of the expression: "Es ist der Hammer" I think it means That's aweosme! But not sure- it's definately positive in the same way that geil is. Anyone know a translation?[/quote]

It's not really positive, it means more like :"That's unbelievable" but in a negative way.

Edit: Something went wrong with the quote thing there, don't know what I did wrong.

Quatsche: nonesense.

Falschparker

Steuerslopfloch.

Also: Arschgeweih.

"Das ist der Hammer" can be positive or negative. "Stinkt wie ein Hammer" is also quite good.

I like these
Du heiliger Bimbam
Du liebes Lieschen
Strohwitwer
and all the words with -weh or -mut at the end, like Langmut or Heimweh...

Ooooh, nice Bavarian word: Zeitlang (noun, n.) meaning longing for and missing someone/something.

Büddelschiff - ship in a bottle

Halbdackel - idiot

Schietbüdel (Platt) - word of affection

Depp as in Johnny Depp i say no more

Nutter as in your a nutter but in German nutter is slang for prostitute
EDIT: Nutte is the correct word