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  • Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
  • Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
  • Sgriob: (Gaelic) The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky
  • L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
  • Pari-pari and Saku-saku: (Japanese) Hard-crispy verses Soft-crispy, i.e. a rice cracker versus fried chicken
  • Stam: (Hebrew) An agreement out of amusement and frustration that something doesn’t have a satisfactory answer among those talking.
  • Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
  • Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.

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Apr 19th, 2011 | Posted in Writing

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  • Ejdl

    Lagom: (Swedish) “Just enough”, ex. for when someone asks you how much food you want. Not nor much, not little, just lagom.

  • http://imaginelifewithoutx.wordpress.com/ Xyruz

    Gheegle, by the way is spelled ‘gigil’ here in the Philippines. :) )

  • marc

    Can’t believe you overlooked one of the most obvious:

    Schadenfreude – The feeling you get when you are secretly/privately glad/happy that someone has had something bad happen to them.

  • Milenko Curcin

    Suvozač (Serbian): The person siting next to you in a car (similar like copilot for pilot)

  • Mejva

    The last one, forelsket (norwegian), is almost the same in swedish. Förälskad.