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10.06.2011, 12:20
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Let's start a list of German (or French, Italian, Romansch) words and their alternative Swiss definitions in English.....
Genau - an indigenous Swiss Wilderbeast
Oder - a bad smell
Oerlikon - a young child attending nursery in Millwall, London
Stimmt - a Swiss fresh-mint (can help with oders from one's mouth)
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10.06.2011, 12:24
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Ausfahrt - a noisy smell in Australia
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10.06.2011, 12:47
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Sorry to lower the tone (again)  .....
Wankdorf - the result of having received the cheapest item on the menu on a street corner in a red light district
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10.06.2011, 12:53
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Wankdorf - the result of having received the cheapest item on the menu on a street corner in a red light district | | | | | I always thought Wankdorf was a premium service in a highly upper class brothel.
Olten - small town in Hampshire
Aargau - Northern Irish female relative
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10.06.2011, 12:59
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Egg - it feels like living in a yolk
Sie lauft selbst oder fahrt der Rad - short for "she laughed seldom or (needless to translate) odour like a rat"
Rathaus - that's were all the rodents live
Autobahn - it means you are automatically banned
Bis bald! - apparently provocative term for somone who lost hair
Bratwurst - worst kind of brat you ever met
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10.06.2011, 13:01
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10.06.2011, 13:13
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Yo - A children's toy that descends, but doesn't come back up again.
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Grüezi mitenand is? | 
10.06.2011, 13:35
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Sepp Joseph Blatter - a specialist philatelist. Only collects stamps on brown envelopes. The brown envelpoe element of this hobby is so important that often they are collected with no stamp at all!
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10.06.2011, 13:47
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Chuchichäschtli - 1) Rick Astley's sister 2) the sound made by a person with a cough or cold when clearing their mouth of phlegm..........after smoking a full pack of Marlboro Reds.......after being suffocated........in a sauna......in the Burmese jungle.......after being forced to eat gravel........after being stabbed in the chest.....on a life support machine which has just been switched off.
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| | Re: Swiss Dictionary | Quote: | |  | | | Chuchichäschtli - 1) Rick Astley's sister 2) the sound made by a person with a cough or cold when clearing their mouth of phlegm..........after smoking a full pack of Marlboro Reds.......after being suffocated........in a sauna......in the Burmese jungle.......after being forced to eat gravel........after being stabbed in the chest.....on a life support machine which has just been switched off. | | | | | Easy there tiger...
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Gleichfalls - Waterfalls near the town of Gletsch
Münster - Nochternal reature living in naughty children's wardrobes
Velo - An adult male
Jura - A member of the public sworn in to attend a legal trial to determine the guilt or otherwise of a defedndant
Uetliberg - A small landica
Sauber - Not intoxicated
Bahnhof - Swiss law banning David Hasselhof records being played on the radio
Spätzli - Germanic noodle-type delicacy made from four essential ingredients, flour, eggs, salt and the inner content of golf balls
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Now that the smell has receded.... let's continue.
Wallis – Now that’s where Wally is!
Grisons – Brillcream ?
Wildegg – From a free range hen
Zermatt – Busby (CBE)
Rapperswil not sing.
Solothurn – It’s always my turn when playing Solitaire
Oeppis - wee.
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