klidenengro's definitions

pal

Romany word for brother. Standard modern European word is 'praal'

he's no pal of mine, I wouldn't piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

strasse

Area of specific interest. Heard recently on BBC Radio 5, ‘Right up your Strasse’. Clearly calqued from ‘right up your street’ but with a tone of contempt. Does the rhyme and association with ‘up your arse’ have anything to do with it?

Right up your Strasse

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

didicoy, didicoi, also didd-

gypsy, pikey, chav etc. Romany word of respect for male of older generation. 'dadika' = father

diddikois welcome!

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

nerd

originally a 'dick-head'. From the French word 'noeud'(literally 'knot'), the slang meaning of which is the glans penis, the enlarged section at the head of the penis, hence 'dick-head'.

whadda nerd!

by klidenengro October 15, 2006

goolies

testicles. Hindi word 'goli' means a ball or small sphere. see also pills

she kicked him in the pills

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

wonga

English Romany word for money. Originally means burning embers and in other european Romani dialects 'angaar' still has that meaning. In 18th and 19th century English 'coal' also meant money. Wonga is the romani calque.

moola, dosh, bread, wonga, I don't care as long as its money

by klidenengro September 9, 2004

gesamtkunstwerk

‘complete-art-work’. London Review of Books, Vol 24, No. 6, 21st March 2002, page 16 col 3 by Hal Foster, ‘Andy Paperbag’. “And these devices became central to his persona, which is sometimes seen as his ultimate work: Warhol as the spectral centre of a flashy scene, a kind of blank Gesamtkunstwerk–in-person”.

'Mediaeval cathedrals were the Gesamtkunstwerks of their era', recently heard on BBC Radio 4,

by klidenengro January 30, 2004