From the people who brought us great words like Schadenfreude and Kindergarten comes my first word of the day, Backpfeifengesicht. The German word which roughly translates to a face badly in need of a fist.
Reminds me of that excellent quote from Flannery O’Connor: “She would have been a good woman if someone had been there to shoot her every day of her life.”
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March 17, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Russell King
I am SO stealing this!
March 17, 2011 at 8:05 pm
RedHerring
In that case you may also appreciate Witzelsucht. From the German witzeln, meaning to joke or wisecrack, and sucht meaning addiction or yearning, is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by the patient’s uncontrollable tendency to make puns, tell inappropriate jokes and pointless or irrelevant stories at inconvenient moments. The patient nevertheless finds these utterances intensely amusing.
Via wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witzelsucht