January 19, 2012

Borrowing from the German

From last month's list of outstanding words on Mental_floss, I am selecting kummerspeck for inclusion into my 2012 vocabulary.
From the German Kummer (grief) and Speck (bacon). Kummerspeck (n) Excess weight gained due to emotion-caused overeating.

My sister's kummerspeck provides me schadenfreude.


I bow to German superiority in wordsmithing.

2 comments:

Professor Longnose said...

I think we should use "griefbacon." Now, THAT'S a word!

BillBow Baggins said...

Haha! A+ on this post.

nwb