The office just finished laughing over "ÖpfelBütschgiStampfer" or "ÄpfelKerngahäuseEntferner" in German.

Apple core remover (or somesuch) for English speakers.

Your candidates? (apart from Bünzli of course).

I want to go and visit Wangs next time on my way to St Anton.

Hudigägeler - Swiss traditional country music (I think)

Although, when I think about apple cores, it brings to mind the strange word we use for them up in my corner of England - "scrunt" - sounds a bit dodgy, but it's true.....

Labi for Labrador.

So, would a Lab pup then be called a 'Labili', anyone?

If something is awesome why say it is awesome when you can say it is:

hüre geil!

"Sagnuit" sort off, "I agree with you". Love it

"amächelig" - attractive, tempting.

So härzig

Mega härzig!

Isch guet gsi.

I like the conugations and expressions that fly in the face of German grammar and would make any German teacher cringe:

s'hät gstummä

There was a collection of weird Swiss expressions (many from schoolkids) published a years ago with the title "Hesch e Kiosk i dr Eigernordwand?" Meaning: 'are you a little soft in the head?' (literally, do you run a kiosk set in the north face of the Eiger? and maybe derived from expressions like "Hesch alli Tasse im Schrank?" lit. are all your teacups in your cupboard?). Same resonance as American expressions like 'he's two bricks shy of a load' or 'he's not firing on all cylinders' or 'he's got a few screws loose.'

J.

Just wondering where your part of England is. In my corner, the north east, we call 'em "Gooks"

My favourite? "Dammidemol". I use it a lot
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My corner is Cumbria, Mr.Flashman.

And my hubby's favourite (swear) word : Gopferdelinonemol (hope this isn't too rude....)

Those Swiss German swear words are just so gross, I way prefer the French ones.

Another nice Swiss German word
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Fertig luschtig means something like "enough"

OMG it quickly deteriorated didn't it, anything a little more "high brow"?

he he he the Bütschgi is züritüütsch or at least very eastern, here we call it Gröibschi

if someone talks like a waterfall here we say : er het dr Schnureploderi
a hanky can become a 'bööggealbum' (scrapbook for bogeys )

as for the swearing gopfverdelli is not bad but dammidemol or gopfverdammi is regarded as very rude as it means gott verdamme mich = god doom me

What about this :

"Heb d'Schnorre du A****, susch göme zäme use!"

- "Please refrain from irritating me, otherwise we may be obliged to leave the premises and settle our differences."

(With apologies to Eastenders for the bad spelling
and to Sada for the swearing)

I LURVE LURVE LURVE your way of spelling it out in english

I'm impressed myself by the wide range of vocabulary that is taught at Klubschule and the like these days!

Fagnast

A disorderly mess of items that should be ordered, eg clothing or bedding...