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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Germans have a word for it...
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Backpfeifengesicht, meaning "a face in need of a good punch."Got it from here, regarding the face of Ted Cruz.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-fallible-mind/201601/why-ted-cruz-s-facial-expression-makes-me-uneasy
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The Germans have a word for it... (Original Post)
ailsagirl
Apr 2016
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)1. I ran this by my German coworker
(he has been in the US for about 15 years). He has never heard the word.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)2. I came across it reading the article I cited in my original post
I'd never heard it before (and I lived in Germany for a time-- way back when)
Here's another link with more detail:
http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/GIC/TWIG__WoW/2014/23-Backpfeifengesicht.html
This is one of those strange words that's uniquely German with no English equivalent. The word Backpfeife means "punch/slap" (on the cheek/face) and Gesicht means "face". The word Backpfeifengesicht therefore means something along the lines of "a face that's begging to be slapped" - or punched. Or hurt. You get the picture.
Regardless, it still gave me one helluva laugh!!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)5. It gave me a laugh, also
But when I used it, he looked at me like I had an eye in my forehead
elleng
(131,140 posts)3. Backpfeifengesicht!!!!!!!!
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)4. "Schwanzlos arschloch" would be better