Another one I like from the Germans is, "schtinktier". It's a smelly animal......a skunk.

Germans call a vacuum cleaner a "staubzucker" (sorry, no unlauts) which literally means "dust sucker". The Germans are so literal.

Coincidentally, this came up today as a memory I shared last year on FB.
A cute Aussie-American couple.

I'll say this word with all respect to anyone that thinks this word refers or applies to them. The word is used as a slang. It's ( coonass. ) it refers to cajons that had worn a raccoon hat. This word is still used. Not by me though.

I was on a band exchange between our Ottawa high school and a New Jersey marching band. They had no idea what a "fridge" was!

On a related note, what's funny to me is someone whose first language is NOT english, trying to use sayings, metaphors, and colloquialisms. One asian dude I worked with kept saying "I have an idea I want to run through you." I also had a manager who always said - "It's not rocket surgery".

Where's C3PO when you need him?

The German language makes compound words by forming them together in one long word. A German word I find funny because it is a perfect example of a German compound word is "aufeinandergestappelt" -- which means "stacked on top of each other. "