Over-precise meanings

Crazy-ass vocabulary words from around the globe.

MAHJ (Persian)
Looking beautiful after having a disease.

KOSHATNIK (Russian)
A dealer in stolen cats.

SEIGNEUR-TERRASSE (French)
Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café.

QUEESTING (Dutch)
Allowing a lover access to one's bed, under the covers, for a chit-chat.

DHURNA (Anglo-Indian)
Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there without food, threatening violence, until you get paid.

O KA LA NOKONOKO (Hawaiian)
A day spent in nervous anticipation of a coughing spell.

POMICIONE (Italian)
A man who seizes any chance of being in close physical contact with a woman.

KUSUKUSU (Japanese)
The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women.

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