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“The Dutch word gezellig can be described as a cozy, communal feeling, like the warm sensation one has surrounded by good friends at a long meal, with the conversation flowing.”
“It felt like an old-fashioned family B-day, with aunts and cousins and two little kids and people telling each other they didn't like the decisions they made but remaining polite and "gezellig" anyway.”
“They are so lovely, real "gezellig" Means comfy cozy or something alike in Dutch.”
“Van der Sar is looking forward to what the Dutch know as some gezellig – cosy, homey time out – but not quite yet.”
The Guardian: 'I want to finish at the top playing well,' says Edwin van der Sar
“In Holland they have a word which celebrates the cultivation of a tolerant, relaxed atmosphere: gezellig.”
The Guardian: World Cup 2010: Holland hope for harmony from their feuding stars
“Ik zou dus graag dat gesigneerde exemplaar willen ontvangen, zodat ik gezellig met mijn vriendin kan kleten over je avonturen in Parijs!”
“Call me a shlimazl, or even a klloshar, but i have this altahmam, this saudade for gezellig.”
“The Rose was a comfortable but slightly down-at-heel pub in Bow: gezellig, in the beautiful Dutch word.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“And, just as in San Francisco, diners in Amsterdam seem drawn to restaurants that are gezellig - cozy and sociable - feelings that are also reflected in their food.”
“Twitter is gezellig en handig, maar wat me opvalt is dat ik zo weinig seks tegenkom.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘gezellig’.
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22606 more...
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Hard to Translate
Words which exceed the common problems one finds in translation.
radioustukacz, shlimazl, gezellig, saudade, selathirupavar, pochernuchka, klloshar, ilunga, filotimo, plenipotentiary, taarradhin, guanxi and 33 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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lost in translation
tarof, gambol, hyggelig, tenalach, saudade, pena ajena, l’esprit d’escalier, ya'aburnee, gezellig, ningunear, duende, cafune and 5 more...
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Specialty Words
Particular prose for the particular situation, these words are meant for something specific. It's not every day you get the chance to use one, so carpe diem when you do.
gezellig, jayus, cafune, shanghai, tartle, prozvonit, zarf, grawlix, whimperative, Cupertino effect, sprezzatura, oronym and 4 more...
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useful and foreign
sprachgefühl, weltanschauung, étagère, madrugada, weltschmerz, wabi, sabi, ganbaru, zarf, tontine, alþingi, lagniappe and 12 more...
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acediscovery's list
agrestic, absquatulate, bamblusterate, bombinate, bailiwick, bedizen, bloviate, concinnity, connubial, deipnosophist, epicene, eructation and 39 more...
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dutch courage
double dutch
going dutch
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dutch phrases i likevervelend, mooi, erg, geweldig, verboden, vakantie, gezellig, uitwaaien
Tweets
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acediscovery I love gezellig - lots of European languages (except English) have this concept, but the Dutch version's the most guttural. Nov 28, 2008
stpeter A notoriously untranslatable Dutch word meaning the combination of cozy, warm, comfortable, enjoyable, sociable, pleasant, et alia. Dec 8, 2006