Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do
Examples
“Back in April I took William Safire to task for peddling the nonexistent "Russian word" razbliuto and I'm happy to report that that post is now the #1 Google hit for razbliuto, so seekers will find the information they need; his latest column ends with the following plangent paragraph:In an article on the need to steal words from other languages to fill our vocabu-gap, I noted references to razbliuto, ''a feeling a person has for someone he or she once loved but no longer feels the same way about.'”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘razbliuto’.
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 419 more...
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• Don't mean a tingo
"Hey, monsieur Jacot de Boinod, where the hell did you hear that bullcrap?"
Any help is much appreciated.
(Note: I have abandoned this list for a while. I promise I'll comment on...a suentola, padella, cosi cosi, slampadato, tirino, biodegradabile, cavoli riscaldati, assolo, movimento, sit on this, to hell with you, mammismo and 11 more...
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The Lypothymic Lexicon of Love
acushla, hypnerotomachia, apodyopsis, cingulomania, lygerastia, noeclexis, osculate, razbliuto, anagapesis, anaxiphillia, incalescence, inparlibidinous and 3 more...
Prolagus This is the right place to mention my Don't mean a tingo open list. Aug 14, 2009
Prolagus Brackets, please! Aug 14, 2009
qroqqa telofy: the English word for that feeling of embarrassment is 'squippleplunch'. Guys, add it to your lists, it's a kingpin. Aug 14, 2009
Telofy I don't know about the Russian word this page honors, and of course you may generally feel free to enjoy whatever letter combinations you like, but to people who actually speak the respective languages such words are likely to sound not merely strange and awkward but in some cases even downright repugnant and might cause this feeling of embarrassment one feels in the stead of someone else—is there a word for that? ^^
As I said, this is probably not about razbliuto at all; I've no idea what word really feels like. Aug 13, 2009
likeflannel even if it is made up, who says i can't enjoy it? Aug 13, 2009
deliasailed I don't think it matters that this word is entirely made up. It's made up, has a definition for something that has previously not ever had a word to describe it, and it is enough of a legend to have appeared here as well as many many other websites and references. Why shouldn't it become a word? Jun 30, 2008
sionnach Sorry guys, this 'word' is a linguistic urban legend. By now, it has been thoroughly debunked. See, e.g.
the urban legend of razbliuto
The fact that it is included in such collections of 'untranslatable' foreign words as Rheingold's "They Have a Word for it" and the completely unreliable "The meaning of Tingo" is testament to the poor quality of the 'research' underlying these books.
See also:
Scheissenbedauern is not a word either
Naturally, it figures that Weirdnet would think this is a real word.
Jan 15, 2008
marco_nj "razbliuto (Russian): the feeling a person has for someone he or she once loved but now does not." Dec 3, 2006