Würgenippel
English translation: purple nurple
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choking /asphyxiation nipple Explanation: would be the literal translation.However,you have to be really heavy on wire to get something funny out of this one. Just choking,excuse the pun. Compliments of the Season and good luck. Cheers Wolf |
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other humorous possibilities with wuergen Explanation: choking or suffocating nipple - i know it's not exactly what you asked for but maybe it'll give you new ideas... |
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4 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| Würgenippel Some more nipples, Explanation: Nothing to do with grommets, but maybe you could do something with these nipples: rigid offset nipple, riser nipple, mounting nipple, Gal nipple, Plews nipple, barb nipple, grease nipple, female hose nipple |
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4 hrs confidence:
Nipple of death Explanation: Combines sexual imagery with mockery of death, a sure-fire laugh-getter in the AnglosSaxon world. This reminds me of the anecdote (possibly apocryphal) about the translator who, faced with the impossibility of translating humor, said "the gentleman just told a joke, please laugh." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-12-24 15:53:29 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- That should, of course, be \"Interpreter, who faced with imposibility ...\" |
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| Würgenippel nipple grommet Explanation: comes up twice in the Internet, so at least that's a start -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 50 mins (2003-12-24 12:18:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- not too many words ryhme with grommet, Webster offers only \"comet, commit, domette, mommet, vomit\", now VOMIT is full of ribald potential!! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 53 mins (2003-12-24 12:22:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- for nipple: \"criple, dripple, fipple, grippal, gripple, hipple, pipple, ripple, skipple, stipple, swipple, thripple, tipple, tripple\" \"soldering nipple, flow nipple\" are also mentioned -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 55 mins (2003-12-24 12:23:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- for your information here\'s the entire Webster III International entry: \"Main Entry:1grommet Pronunciation:*gr*m*t, *gr*m-, usu -*d.+V Variant:also grummet \\*gr*m-\\ Function:noun Inflected Form:-s Etymology:perhaps from obsolete French gormette curb of a bridle 1 : a ring or loop of metal, rope, fabric, or other material that is passed through something (as the eyelet of a sail) to hold it in place or that fits around something (as an oar) to support or control it or that is built into something (as a machine belt) to reinforce it 2 a : an eyelet of metal, plastic, or other material set into a perforation (as at the edge of a mailbag) so as to strengthen and protect the inner circumference of the perforation and the immediately surrounding area b : a device like a ring that is designed to protect or insulate something passed through it: as(1) : a bushing designed to protect from abrasion a cord or wire passing through a hole(2) : a washer designed to insulate an electric wire passing through a hole 3 : a gasket or packing used to prevent leakage (as of steam) or entry (as of dust) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 56 mins (2003-12-24 12:25:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- \"nipple gasket\" has a nice ring to it, and gasket is perhaps more rhymable than is \"grommet\" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 58 mins (2003-12-24 12:27:07 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- \"nipple gasket\" gets 35 googles! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 58 mins (2003-12-24 12:27:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- \"nipple gasket\" gets 35 googles! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 hrs 59 mins (2003-12-24 22:28:25 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- \"choke grommet\" gets gaggles of googles |
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11 hrs confidence:
| Würgenippel exterminator nipple Explanation: Hi Cilian, 'Würgenippel' certainly evokes associations with the Bunuel film "El angel exterminator", in German "Der Würgeengel". You could try a play on words, with, let's say, the "exterminator nipple"- but then I don't know how popular that Bunuel film was/is in the English speaking world... travel.yahoo.com/ p-travelguide-785940-berlin_bars_and_cafe_bars-i - 29k |
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15 hrs confidence:
| Würgenippel Below Explanation: Problem as I see it is that the German has a different (sexual) connotation built into the word "Würgenippel" as a possible source of a comedy "gag" (würgen- gag, or retch involuntarily, vomit ineffectually, heave, "retched nipples"). But the English "grommet", although it has humorous undertones is a planet away from the German conception. We don't even see the object itself as resembling a (throttling) nipple in English. "Vomiting grommet" (someone else suggested?). "Gagging gasket" (might work- stretching it a bit from grommet, though). "retching rubber eyelet". You might not find an answer, but at least you found some German commedians, you should be well pleased with that. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 hrs 15 mins (2003-12-25 02:44:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- A grommet is essentially a little fat rubber ring which fits tightly inside something (tube, maybe) or over something. |
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1 day 39 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1purple nurple Explanation: i'm sure you know what that is and why it is called that. just figured that it fits in with your 'würgen' and 'nippel', the action causing the purple nurple is close enough to the würgen. by the way, purple nurple comes up with quite a few hits on google. |
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1 day 8 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
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