I came across this wonderful German word yesterday, and its even more wonderful meaning. It's pronounced - if my long-distant German lessons serve me right - Bark fie fen gay zicked. (Please note, this is extremely approximate!)
Backpfeifengesicht
English speakers have no word for
a face that badly
needs a punch.
The German compound word is
Backpfeifengesicht
Which could
easily seem to mean
a face like a smelly drain
Though transliterally
it’s close to
a back-pipe face, which isn’t
Complementary. And
on the face
of it, the word looks like
Bagpipes make me sick¸ though
since I have
a friend who’s learning
To play the
bagpipes, using
Backpfeifengesicht
In a pretended
translation
seems likely
to bring me to a
Place where I
might well have
a face that badly needs a punch.
