weird vocabulary

x31eq · Post by **x31eq** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:17 am

puce wrote: Another Italian one: gambizzare, to shot someone in the legs, this is a neologism from the 70s when in Italy there were terrorists who used to shot people in the legs for intimidation.

English has "kneecapping" from Northern Ireland.

picsou · Post by **picsou** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:40 am

puce wrote:
picsou wrote:One for the francophones:
maringoin...
What is it?
Another Italian one: gambizzare, to shot someone in the legs, this is a neologism from the 70s when in Italy there were terrorists who used to shot people in the legs for intimidation.

Qu?b?quois for "moustique" or mosquito.

barrett · Post by **barrett** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:41 am

WABENZI - This is what Kenyans call politicians who drive Mercedes Benz Limo's.

from a story in todays Independent -
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/afr ... 342134.ece
that Kenyan politicians have spent ?7 million on a fleet of Mercs and 4wd's whilst asking our governments for another ?150m to feed the starving population. Greedy bastards. [fire]

< parvoart > · Post by **< parvoart >** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:33 am

at the end of last year the bbc published a list of new slang words in the uk, the best of which was...

'book', which of course means 'cool'. why

in mobile phones, it's the first option given in predictive text when trying to type c-o-o-l

well book, man! [tup]