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Examples
“Mr. X and damn, talk about l'esprit de l'escalier/treppenwitz/staircase wisdom, what I should have said was ...”
“[Lest some people who happen to be my wife think this is a dig at her housekeeping skills, let me state for the record that I am one of the primary contributors to the chez treppenwitz clutter problem.] 2.”
“That way, no matter how badly I screw up ... or where I may decide to take this site in the future (given my current frustration with the excruciatingly slow and stingy level of what they laughingly call 'customer service', by my host 'typepad', a move is likely to come sooner than later) you will not show up here one day and find treppenwitz has vanished.”
“As I understand it, this would allow me to have my domain name (treppenwitz. com) display in the address bar along with the sub pages, instead of the unwieldy 'bogieworks' URL.”
“I recieved an email this morning from a friend in LA saying he was unable to view treppenwitz (he is getting a 404 message when he tries to view my blog).”
“The French and Germans have words / phrase for that feeling you get when you come up with the perfect comeback too late to use it (l'espirt d'escalier and treppenwitz).”
“So it should come as no surprise that some of the initial wonder we felt when the treppenwitz family was privileged to move to Israel five years ago, has begun to fade.”
“It may have slipped under most people's radar, but the OU (Orthodox Union) has been re-posting (with permission, of course) what they consider to be the best of treppenwitz every couple of months on their site.”
“treppenwitz blinding flashes of intellect ... just a little too late.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘treppenwitz’.
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Auf German
Amish, Dutch, Alsatians, Swiss, Sprachens etc.
stopfgarn, remmidemmi, pfundig, prätentiös, gingernillis, knuffig, larifari, funzel, wonneproppen, blödsinn, knäppchen, gezóndheid and 23 more...
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L’esprit de l’escalier
staircase wit or...
a feeling or thought I should have said but never did
because of fear.ennui, aboulia, boob, nincompoop, mooncalf, treppenwitz, hadiwist, et patati et patata, lire quelque chos..., tiddledies, elide, fastidious and 1 more...
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 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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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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wordies
apple-howling, аппаратчик, perjinkities, katzenjammer, prorogue, henotheistic, wiggedy wack, twiss, concinnity, freeball, lywed, procrastokinetics and 76 more...
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Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Loanwords of German origin, so-called 'untranslatable' words, compound words, slang, and words which I (dis)like immensely.
verarschen, blitz, rucksack, hinterland, kindergarten, weltanschauung, treppenwitz, drachenfutter, torschlusspanik, katzenjammer, gedankenexperiment, frauenzimmer and 66 more...
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bolster that prose
abject, abeyance, acumen, aplomb, apothegm, argot, avaunter, Diderot, invidious, nacreous, pavonine, hackney and 53 more...
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ynaffit's Words
sedulous, vituperative, pullulating, erstwhile, imbroglio, asperity, cynosure, adumbrate, prosopopoeia, peerless, calumny, ague and 272 more...
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Zee Germans
(from Snatch):
Turkish: Fuck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers?...gesiebeautomat, schadenfreude, verboten, weltschmerz, blitzkrieg, ansatz, farkakte, beergarden, alpenglow, angst, anschluss, autobahn and 53 more...
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Quodlibets' List
psithurism, bafflegab, tatterdemalion, amaranthine, incarnadine, petrichor, tintinnabulation, gallimaufry, galimatias, sussurus, tetrapyloctomy, rhapsodic and 60 more...
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jesuisici's Words
trilobite, succubus, vermillion, brigand, schadenfreude, banausic, apocryphal, neologism, sycophant, pareidolia, ex cathedra, onus and 12 more...
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mialuthien See also l'esprit de l'escalier. Jul 25, 2008