New Terms in German

From my 2024 trip there. I began noting these on my phone, and it became quite a list.

Talahon- quasi gang member, immigrant background, rap fan, often Muslim (learned of this before the Germany trip)

      Visiting Gabriela

bodenständig- down to earth

Adipositas- obesity

Legasteniker- dyslexic person

     Visiting Coffey

Hyrox— indoor track-and-field-type sport

Pfortader- portal vein. ??? Something to do w the organs on the right lower abdomen

Wasen- Kerwe

Kutteln- beef stomach

Herrgottsbscheißerle-Maultaschen: uh… a bakery item?

Kloster Maulbronn ??

     At Eva and Martin’s

Kirrle- durcheinander: mixed up, disorderly

Untergewand— undershirt

den Bach runter— bergab

Fibel- secondary meaning: brooch: learned  at karlsruher Schlossmuseum?

Rampensau- glory hog? Attention seeker, said of a performer

Spinalkananalstenose- pinched spinal nerve

Jostabeeren- Kreuzung zw Stachelbeeren und schwarze Johannesbeeren: cross between gooseberry and (red or black?) currants, I think

Hexenspiel— ein Kinderspiel: something easy to do?

Hausbrauerei- brewpub

Fimmel— a soft spot for something

verstaatlicht- nationalized

Hausnummer: starting price/ real estate

Wasserstandsmeldung: same thing

     At Malaika and Torsten’s

Maulbeere— mulberry

Jacke wie  Hose— same thing either way.

Bio-Bike— not an E-bike

Forellenpuff— recreational trout farm for fishing

Schlehen— urpflaume: blackthorn

Klöntsche— platt: kandiszucker

lauschig— gemütlich

Insektenhotel: log with bore holes which provides habitat

Engerling- larva of large insect: june bug, potato bug. Lives underground.

Römertopf - ceramic casserole

pedativ— said of an after school-program, not nec. v good??

linke Bazile— mean person

falscher Fuffziger— ??

langhorriger Bombeleger— left wing extremist

Schäpperle— latch

Rindspimmel— insult: bull’s penis, right?

Förderklasse— special ed

bildungsnah/ bzw. -fern— proper teem for uneducated/ better educated

     Visiting Walter, Peggy and Alex

Befindlichkeiten— facts?

Havarie-shipwreck

Henkelmann— WWII German mess  kit

Affe: German mil backpack used in pre-NS time, still used by some Boy Scouts. Note: marching song still used by German troops because it is not an NSDAP song.

des Teufelsküche— devil’s kitchen: locus of chaos, disorder, error, I think

Kontrollsucht— OCD

Befehlsnotstand— when you are forced by circumstances to follow illegal orders?

unleidlich— unausstehlich? Impossible to get along with?

Speckgürtel: suburbs of a city that benefit from it by extraction of wages and taxes

      With Claudia, DW, and Ulli. New terms most likely all from Ulli

Persianer— some kind of rug?

Geysir— geyser

Pantau— Cz Kinderserie

Hast du Hummeln im Arsch?— are you in a hurry, nervous, etc.

Bedarfshalt—??

Schotter: Geld

     Back visiting Gabriela

Mahonia— a kind of berry

befegen—??

linker [linke?] Socke— left winger

Bisamratte— nutria?