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sektselig

English translation: buzzed, drunkenly blissful, on a champagne high, giddy [with champagne]

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German term or phrase:	sektselig
English translation:	buzzed, drunkenly blissful, on a champagne high, giddy [with champagne]
Entered by:	margarete

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13:03 Jan 16, 2005

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German term or phrase: sektselig

This is as much for me as for the job.

This is from a list of keywords for a Friendster like dating website. I know exactly what it means, but I am wondering if there is a good English equivalent. Any ideas.

Here is the sentence the keyword refers to:
Sektselig liegt man sich in den Armen und versichert mit ausgiebig gefeiertem Schulabschluss in der Tasche nachdrücklich: "Wir bleiben in Kontakt."

margarete
United States

buzzed /buzzing

Explanation:
This may be too American for you, don't know, but I would say buzzed or buzzing depending on how you construct the rest of the sentence.

It implies everything that sektselig does : good mood due to consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Cheers,
Melanie

Selected response from:

msherms
Germany
Local time: 09:38

Grading comment

buzzed made for a nice keyword.

Thanks to everyone for the really great suggestions. I hope other people will be able to benefit from them.

Cheers!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

giddy [with champagne]

Johanna Timm, PhD

3 +3

blissful(ly)

Ken Cox

4 +1

tipsy on champaign

Stefanie Sendelbach

Carried away by god Bacchus,... (or: On the wings of god Bacchus)

gangels

Bubblingly

Textklick

3 +1

on a champagne high

Laurel Porter

3 +1

buzzed /buzzing

msherms

champagned (out)

Allesklar

champagne-sozzled

Ian M-H

maudlin

wongudik

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

tipsy on champaign

Explanation:
That's the meaning. Maybe you can use this for your translation.

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Note added at 14 mins (2005-01-16 13:17:42 GMT)
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Well, \"sektselig\" can also imply that they are more drunk than just \"tipsy\".

Stefanie Sendelbach
Germany
Local time: 09:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

German

34 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

buzzed /buzzing

msherms
Germany
Local time: 09:38
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

buzzed made for a nice keyword.

Thanks to everyone for the really great suggestions. I hope other people will be able to benefit from them.

Cheers!

37 mins confidence:

maudlin

Explanation:
maudlin = drunk enough to be emotionally silly
maudlin = weinselig (according to Leo)

Reference: http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=rel...

wongudik
Indonesia
Native speaker of:

Indonesian

39 mins confidence:

champagne-sozzled

Explanation:
This one came to mind first and Google confirms that it is at least occasionally used. "Sozzled" doesn't imply a good mood as clearly as "Sektselig", but the context should make that clear.

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Note added at 42 mins (2005-01-16 13:45:52 GMT)
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Or just \"sozzled\". As search terms, though - hmm, not really.

Ian M-H
United States
Local time: 03:38
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

52 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

blissful(ly)

Explanation:
The 'real' translation would be 'drunkenly blissful', which can be understood figuratively as well as literally (just as sektselig apparently can be in German), but you client probably wouldn't appreciate having 'drunken(ly)' as a keyword.

Ken Cox
Netherlands
Local time: 09:38
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 36

1 hr confidence:

champagned (out)

Explanation:
scheint's zu geben ;)

Reference: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22champagned+out%22...

Allesklar
Australia
Local time: 18:08
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German

4 hrs confidence:

Carried away by god Bacchus,... (or: On the wings of god Bacchus)

Explanation:
everybody hugs everybody

A bit of a different take

Sektselig (weinselig, bierselig) approximates what they jokingly call in the US "feeling no pain", so I would not get hung up on champaign specifically. BTW, a colloquialism for champaign (the massmarket kind) is "shampus", so if you were to describe a US college graduation bash, you could say "With the shampus flowing freely, everybody was hugging"

gangels
United States
Local time: 01:38
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 20