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Showing posts with label Schmutzfink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schmutzfink. Show all posts
Monday, November 1, 2010

Words of the month: Dreckspatz, Schmutzfink

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Dreck and Schmutz mean basically the same thing in German: dirt. A Spatz is a sparrow and a Fink a finch. Hitched to a word meaning ...
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