Ach aye, Scottish words for plants

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  For those who don’t know.

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  • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, childhood mystery solved. When I was younger, my family went to France to visit some relatives. One of the dishes we were served was a salad, and my mom told me it was called pee-the-bed salad. I was so confused and was terrified that I was going to wet my bed that night after eating it. I didn’t, but I had been wondering ever since then what it could have been and why it was called that.

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  • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always thought it was a “Dandy Lion,” like a fancy Victorian gentleman lion.

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    “Uhuhuh… you thaid blow balls.”

    “Yeah! Heheh! Yeah!”

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• judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dandelion is called pee the bed (piscialetto) in Italian too. Other Italian names for the same plant are:

  • Make the dog pee (pisciacane)
  • Dog tooth (dente di cane)
  • Little grandpa (nonnino)
  • wild chicory (cicoria selvatica)
  • Donkey chicory (cicoria asinina)
  • Pork snout (grugno di porco)
  • Pork fattener (ingrassaporci)
  • Eye stinger (brusaoci, Venetian)
  • Pig salad (insalata di porci. No, not pork salad, pig salad, the animals are still alive)
  • Pork grass (erba del porco)
  • Sunflower of meadows (girasole dei prati)
  • Lion tooth (dente di leone)
  • Big puff (soffione, only the fruit)

  I think the last two are the most common

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  • loaExMachina@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In French it’s also called “pissenlit”, which can be translated the same way if split as " pisse en lit". But although I’d noticed this as a kid, I always thought of it as a joke and assumed the name couldn’t actually come from that…

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait, I don’t speak Italian, is the meaning of porci in ingrassaporci being pork and porci in insalata di porci being pig distinguished by the lack of preposition and the formation of a compound word or is it just a known thing?

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    • judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can use both porco and maiale when referring to the animal in general, but for the meat in food you usually say maiale. Maybe there is some food that use the word porco (singular) but when referring to their meat you never use the plural maiali or porci

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So apparently the entire world decided that “pee the bed” would be a great name for a flower.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well it has a strong diuretic effect. It’s just good marketing, you know what plant to get off you have trouble pissing

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  • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Scottish people I’ve heard say it actually called them “piss-a-beds,” which trips off the tongue a lot easier, but that name comes from the fact that as an herbal medicine they are apparently a pretty effective diuretic.

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• PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oooh, so that’s what the title of the song “Itchycoo Park” means. I used to think it was an awful sexual reference.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  sweden calls them worm roses

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• Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dandelion also means pee the bed in French, might be on to something.

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  • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, it means lion’s teeth.

    Pissenlit is piss the bed.

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    • Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Aka no one in French would call them dandelion

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    • Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s what I meant, around here everyone calls them pissenlit, hence piss the bed.

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  • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ironic, given that the English “dandelion” was borrowed from the Old French dent de leon (“lion’s tooth”).

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    • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Lion not Leon

      Leon is a proper name for a person.

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• HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reminds me of this old 4chan greentext

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• Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  On a second thought, the dandelion’s Hungarian name ‘child’s chain grass’ is pretty reserved.

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