Word of the day

[dreamer_easy]

"Nilpferdhinterteil"

"arse end of a hippo"

Comments

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

It's not that end you have to worry about!

[tysolna]

Or, vulgo, "Nilpferdarsch". ("nil-pferd-arsch")

Sometimes, I love my father tongue. :D

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I know that 'pferd' is horse in German, therefore 'nilpferd' is hippopotamus. Does that translate to 'river-horse' the way it does in some languages?

Therefore 'hinterteil' = arse end. Good to know.

[tysolna]

It translates to "Nile Horse", as in the river. And "Hinterteil" would literally be "back end"... but arse end sounds much better. ;)

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

I so love that there's a special word for that!

[hexacontium.livejournal.com]

Strictly speaking it's not, but you can easily combine existing words and make them your own

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I have an Attestation.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

So much more precise! :D

TRUFAX

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Re: TRUFAX

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Angry, Angry hippos are responsible for about 500 deaths a year, apparently. Not surprising when you can consider their tusks are as wide around as baseball bats and they can outrun a horse...

(http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d153/ManinHat/?action=view&current=hippo-23524-1251126450-17.jpg)

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the specificity!

[tysolna]

I hope it was not unwanted. ;)

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I was not being sarcastic. :)

Re: TRUFAX

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Oh yah - that's why the Egyptian demon, the Devourer of the Damned, has the mouth of a croc, the claws of a lion, and the arse end of a hippo!

(That photo's funny as hell - but only because the gamekeeper lived to tell the tale!)

Re: TRUFAX

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Indeed! I also have a magazine article about a nature photographer who accidentally got between two irate boar hippos having a territorial disagreement- one grabbed him by the leg and flung him *40 feet* out of the water and into a bush. He had a hole in his leg he could pass a coke bottle through without touching the edges of the wound...

Also, stupid tourist:
http://images.travelpod.com/users/hmax/1.1245245033.3_garoua-hippo-patting.jpg

Re: TRUFAX

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*faints dead away*