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Boketto — Staring into the distance without thinking
/ bo-KET-toh /
Japanese

Gazing vacantly into the distance without any particular thought. That glazed, unfocused look you get when your mind goes completely blank.

jdoe · 2 hours ago · 2 comments
Kummerspeck — Excess weight from emotional eating
/ KOO-mer-shpek /
German

Literally 'grief bacon'. The weight you gain from stress or emotional eating. One of the most darkly relatable German compound words.

jdoe · 2 hours ago · 2 comments
Cafuné — Running fingers through someone's hair
/ kah-foo-NEH /
Brazilian Portuguese

Tenderly running your fingers through the hair of someone you love. A deeply intimate and affectionate gesture.

jdoe · 2 hours ago · 3 comments
Verschlimmbessern — To make something worse while trying to improve it
/ fer-SHLIM-bess-ern /
German

The act of making something worse in an attempt to improve it. Every developer has experienced this with a 'quick fix'.

jdoe · 2 hours ago · 2 comments
Fernweh — Wanderlust; an ache for distant places
/ FERN-veh /
German

Literally 'far-sickness', the opposite of homesickness — a craving for travel and distant places you've never been.

jdoe · 2 hours ago · 2 comments