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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mine is Blowh

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• affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t work in German (also a Germanic language like English):

  • Mustqerd: Senf / Mosterd
  • Bastard: Bastard
  • Wizard: Zauberer
  • Coward: Feigling
  • Drunkard: Säufer / Trunkenbold

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  • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s thought to be a misunderstanding between French speakers and German surnames. Francophones presumed it was a trade suffix the way in English someone who bakes is a baker. English is a salad of confusion between these two.

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  photograph of a bird. wikipedia’s caption for this photo is “Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) in the Duisburg Zoo, Germany”

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bustards

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard that the term “son of a gun” has a similar origin.

  See, when a sailing vessel would visit port all the whores would row out to meet it. They’d be hauled into the gun ports and… ply their wares.

  Since they didn’t know who in the gun crew was the father, their boys were “sons of a gun”

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• FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So someone e.g. named Leonard Thiel that embodies themselves too much is a Leotard?

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• Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So Richard is too rich? Is that why he’s a Dick?

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• Soot@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a lot more I want accounted for before I accept this explanation

  • pet
  • cust
  • stew
  • b
  • l
  • really dang h

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As for petard, it should be very farty

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reminds me of a card-based cooking game, Cookard… which does, in fact, contain an overabundance of cooking.

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• libre_warrior@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are too many hoardards in our world.

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “What are we going to call this fish? It’s got… so much pilch… maybe a bit too much if I’m honest”

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  howard’s awkward canard

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• SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  HarvARD

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• jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s also Spaniard…

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