Karohemd's World

1. The space between two buildings containing a footpath:
Gasse

2. A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons:
Pulli/ Pullover/ Pullunder (without sleeves)

3. The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to:
schwänzen (for school)

4. Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.":
Fangen

5. Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games:
I don't think we had a word...

6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something:
Meins

7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers:
Before trainers?

8. Small round bread:
Broetchen

9. Sweet course that follows the main course:
Nachtisch

10. Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan":
the latter

11. Generic term for a bird:
Vogel (note that the German V at the beginning is pronounced like F)

12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside:
erm- Pfannkuchen?

13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you:
Handkaes mit Musik

14. Term of endearment:
Schatz

15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold:
Weichei, Warmduscher, Memme, etc.

16. Tourists:
Touristen

17. A field boundary:
Hecke, Zaun

18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" :
Schau Dir mal die Kuehe in dem Stall dort an

19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer.
Ich habe Hunger und mir ist kalt

20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt?:
Feigling, Angsthase

21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____:
Geck

22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change?:
Danke

23. Generic friendly greeting:
Moin

24. Slang term for a pair of trousers:
no slang

25. Slang term for left-handed person:


26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow?:
Shrosebri, Newcastle, Glas go

27. Two pieces of bread with a filling:
Sandwich, belegtes Broetchen (at school Pausenbrot)

28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order:
Das ist nicht fair/ Du spinnst wohl

29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face – and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name:
No slang I would use

30. Terms for someone who looks miserable:
Miesepeter

31. Potatoes:
Kartoffeln

32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter:
no equivalent, so crumpet.