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  2. Bilingual pun - Wikipedia

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    In English PURRgatory, in Spanish PurGATOrio. A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of a bilingual pun can be a joke that makes sense in more than one language (a joke that can be translated) or a joke which requires understanding of ...

  3. Shiksa - Wikipedia

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    Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew usage (as well as Polish and German), mostly in North American Jewish culture.

  4. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    To some English – and German – speakers, Reich in English strongly connotes Nazism and is sometimes used to suggest fascism or authoritarianism, e.g. "Herr Reichsminister" used as a title for a disliked politician. Ja – yes; Jawohl – a German term that connotes an emphatic yes – "Yes, indeed!" in English.

  5. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  6. Frumpy - Wikipedia

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    Frumpy was a German progressive rock/krautrock band based in Hamburg, which was active between 1970–1972 and 1990–1995. Formed after the break-up of folk rockers City Preachers [ de ] , Frumpy released four albums in 1970–1973 and achieved considerable commercial success.

  7. Otokonoko - Wikipedia

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    Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.

  8. Frumpy (term) - Wikipedia

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    Search for Frumpy (term) in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Frumpy (term) article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  9. Frum - Wikipedia

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    Frum Breslov boys from Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, 2011. Frum (Yiddish: פֿרום, lit. 'religious', 'pious', German: fromm) is a word that describes Jewish religious ...