“poopshit” gets a surprising amount of attention… I wonder if it’s pretty much just the one guy saying it.
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Can’t quite compete with gems like, say, Weischwurstwassersterkerleislutscher on any level.
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Sadly, us English speakers are a simple folk. Despite it being a Germanic language, we just haven’t mastered the wonderfully expressive compound words that German speakers can manifest.
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That chart is mentioned in this marvellous episode of Words Unravelled:
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Hair plucking too. Be careful in there!
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Written as spoken. Which adds an additional level of difficulty for translation.
Weißwurst
Bavarian type of sausage made from veal. Not grilled but cooked/warmed in hot water.
Weißwurstwasser
The water left over after cooking the sausages.
Steckerleis = Eis am Stiel
Ice lolly.
A candy lolly would be a Lutscher.
(A pacifier would also be a Lutscher.)
Also, lutschen
To lick or suck at a lolly or bonbon or… something else entirely.
So a person who is licking or sucking something might also be called a Lutscher.
To sum it all up:
Either just an ice lolly made from said leftover water itself or someone who consumes one.
Or both.
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And is that a bad or a good thing?
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I guess something is lost in translation, and seems to imply foolish person but shorter English phrases seem to get the point better, like windae licker.
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I was being flippant, but I would like to know if the person insulted would be considered daft; greedy; mean or poor (as in not wasting a scrap); or something else?
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I’m not a native German speaker, so I can’t give an accurate answer but stomach says foolish person, but I too would be glad to corrected by one of the native German speakers here.
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The problem with German insults is that the object has got bored and wandered off before you finish.
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Ah, you once showed us a picture of said white sausage, served to the table in a bowl of hot water.
Mm, sausage-water lolly. Yum 
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We need to make “wank clown” a thing.
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