Pseudo-anglicisms are words in languages other than English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 which were borrowed from English but are used in a way native English speakers would not readily recognize or understand. Pseudo-anglicisms often take the form of portmanteau word

Portmanteau word

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a blend of two words or morphemes into one new word. A portmanteau word typically combines both sounds and meanings, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog. More generally, it may refer to any term or phrase that combines two or more meanings...

s, combining elements of multiple English words to create a new word that appears to be English but is unrecognisable to a native speaker of English. It is also common for a genuine English word to be used to mean something completely different from its original meaning.

Pseudo-anglicisms are related to false friend

False friend

False friends are pairs of words or phrases in two languages or dialects that look or sound similar, but differ in meaning....

s or false cognate

False cognate

False cognates are pairs of words in the same or different languages that are similar in form and meaning but have different roots. That is, they appear to be, or are sometimes considered, cognates, when in fact they are not....

s. Many speakers of a language which employs pseudo-anglicisms believe that the relevant words are genuine anglicism

Anglicism

An Anglicism, as most often defined, is a word borrowed from English into another language. "Anglicism" also describes English syntax, grammar, meaning, and structure used in another language with varying degrees of corruption.-Anglicisms in Chinese:...

s and can be used in English.

When many English words are incorporated into many languages, language enthusiasts and purists often look down on this phenomenon, terming it (depending on the importing language) Denglisch

Denglisch

Denglisch or Denglish is a portmanteau of the German words Deutsch and Englisch. Used in all German-speaking and Dutch-speaking countries, it describes an influx of English, or pseudo-English, vocabulary into the German or Dutch language through travel and the widespread usage of English in...

, Franglais

Franglais

Franglais , a portmanteau combining the French words "français" and "anglais" , is a slang term for an interlanguage, although the word has different overtones in French and English....

 or similar neologisms.

Multiple languages

• Aircon (Korean 에어컨, Japanese エアコン) - air conditioner
• Air-Condition (German, Croatian, Greek) — air conditioning
  Air conditioning
  An air conditioner is a home appliance, system, or mechanism designed to dehumidify and extract heat from an area. The cooling is done using a simple refrigeration cycle...
  
  
• Apart (Korean 아파트, Japanese アパート) - Apartment
  Apartment
  An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...
  
  
• Autostop or stop (Croatian, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian
  Romanian language
  Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
  
  , Russian автостоп, Turkish) — hitchhiking
  Hitchhiking
  Hitchhiking is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other road vehicle to travel a distance that may either be short or long...
  
  
• Ball Pen (Korean 볼펜, Japanese ボールペン) — ball point pen
• Basket (Arabic, Spanish, Turkish, French, Italian, Indonesian, Greek) — Basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
  
• Baskets (French, Romanian) — sneakers, trainers (basketball shoes)
• Beamer (Dutch, German, Romanian) — video projector
  Video projector
  A video projector is an image projector that receives a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a projection screen using a lens system. All video projectors use a very bright light to project the image, and most modern ones can correct any curves, blurriness, and other...
  
  , primarily digital
• Beauty farm (Dutch, German, Italian) — spa
  Spa
  The term spa is associated with water treatment which is also known as balneotherapy. Spa towns or spa resorts typically offer various health treatments. The belief in the curative powers of mineral waters goes back to prehistoric times. Such practices have been popular worldwide, but are...
  
  
• Body (for dancing) (Italian, Romanian) — leotard
  Leotard
  A leotard is a skin-tight one-piece garment that covers the torso but leaves the legs free. It was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard ....
  
  
• Body (for infants) (Italian, French, Spanish) — infant bodysuit
  Infant bodysuit
  An infant bodysuit is a garment designed to be worn by infants much like a t-shirt; they are distinguished from t-shirts by an extension below the waist, with snaps or Velcro that allow it to be closed over the crotch. The purpose of the opening at the crotch is to facilitate access to the infant's...
  
  
• Box (for toddlers) (Dutch, Italian) — playpen
  Playpen
  A playpen is a piece of furniture in which an infant or young toddler is placed to prevent self-harm when her/his parent or guardian is occupied or away. The earliest use of the word playpen cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is 1902...
  
  
• Box (for vehicles) (French, Italian) — garage
  Garage (house)
  A residential garage is part of a home, or an associated building, designed or used for storing a vehicle or vehicles. In some places the term is used synonymously with "carport", though that term normally describes a structure that is not completely enclosed.- British residential garages:Those...
  
  
• Break (French, Romanian brec) — a station wagon
  Station wagon
  A station wagon is a body style variant of a sedan/saloon with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door , instead of a trunk lid...
  
   (American English) or estate car (British English) - cf. shooting brake
• Camping (Croatian, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian кемпинг, Spanish) — campsite
  Campsite
  A campsite or camping pitch is a place used for overnight stay in the outdoors. In British English a campsite is an area, usually divided into a number of pitches, where people can camp overnight using tents or camper vans or caravans; this British English use of the word is synonymous with the...
  
  
• Camping-car (French, Japanese キャンピングカー) — Campervan
  Campervan
  A campervan , sometimes referred to simply as a camper, or a caravanette, is a self-propelled vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation. The term mainly describes vans that have been fitted out, often with a coachbuilt body for use as accommodation...
  
   or "recreational vehicle
  Recreational vehicle
  Recreational vehicle or RV is, in North America, the usual term for a Motor vehicle or trailer equipped with living space and amenities found in a home.-Features:...
  
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• Car (French, Swiss German) — coach
  Coach (vehicle)
  A coach is a large motor vehicle, a type of bus, used for conveying passengers on excursions and on longer distance express coach scheduled transport between cities - or even between countries...
  
  , tour bus or inter-city bus
• Catch (French; now considered old-fashioned in Italian) — professional wrestling
  Professional wrestling
  Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
  
  
• Classic music (Korean 클래식 음악, Japanese クラシック音楽, Turkish) - Classical music
  Classical music
  Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
  
  
• Coffee (Some Arabic dialects) - Café
  Café
  A café , also spelled cafe, in most countries refers to an establishment which focuses on serving coffee, like an American coffeehouse. In the United States, it may refer to an informal restaurant, offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches...
  
  
• Cornflakes (Arabic, German) - Any breakfast cereal
  Breakfast cereal
  A breakfast cereal is a food made from processed grains that is often, but not always, eaten with the first meal of the day. It is often eaten cold, usually mixed with milk , water, or yogurt, and sometimes fruit but sometimes eaten dry. Some cereals, such as oatmeal, may be served hot as porridge...
  
  
• Cunning (Korean 커닝, Japanese カンニング) - Cheating
  Cheating
  Cheating refers to the breaking of rules to gain advantage in a competitive situation. The rules infringed may be explicit, or they may be from an unwritten code of conduct based on morality, ethics or custom, making the identification of cheating a subjective process. Cheating can refer...
  
  
• Dancing (Flemish, French, Italian) — dance hall
  Dance hall
  Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for dancing. From the earliest years of the twentieth century until the early 1960s, the dance hall was the popular forerunner of the discothèque or nightclub...
  
   or dancing-house or nightclub
• Discount (Diskont) (Croatian, Serbian) — a store
• Feeling (Italian, French) — personal chemistry, common bond
• Fitness (Croatian, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian фитнес, Spanish, Turkish) — fitness training as a kind of gymnastics
• Flipper (Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian; Croatian fliper) — pinball machine
• Footing (French, Italian, Spanish) — jogging
• Fotoshooting (German, Romanian) — photo session
• Fotoshop (Croatian), fotosop (Hungarian) — a manipulated photo (from the name of Adobe Photoshop
  Adobe Photoshop
  Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...
  
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• Full (Croatian, Serbian ful, Turkish) — Full house (in poker)
• Handphone (Filipino languages, Indonesian, Korean 핸드폰) — a mobile phone
  Mobile phone
  A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
  
  
• Happy end (Croatian, Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean 해피엔드 , Japanese ハッピーエンド, Polish, Romanian, Russian хэппи-энд) — happy ending
  Happy ending
  A happy ending is an ending of the plot of a work of fiction in which almost everything turns out for the best for the protagonists, their sidekicks, and almost everyone except the villains....
  
  
• Hometrainer (German, Dutch) — exercise bicycle or other low-level consumer fitness machine
• IC (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) - interchange
  Interchange (road)
  In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically uses grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without directly crossing any other traffic stream. It differs from a standard intersection, at which...
  
  
• Jolly (Italian, Romanian) — joker
  Joker (playing card)
  Joker is a special type of playing card found in most modern decks, or else a type of tile in some Mahjong game sets.-Name:It is believed that the term "Joker" comes from a mispronunciation of Jucker, the German/Alsatian name for the game Euchre. The card was originally introduced in about 1860 for...
  
   or wild card
• Killer (Croatian, Italian, Russian киллер) — hitman
  Hitman
  A hitman is a person hired to kill another person.- Hitmen in organized crime :Hitmen are largely linked to the world of organized crime. Hitmen are hired people who kill people for money. Notable examples include Murder, Inc., Mafia hitmen and Richard Kuklinski.- Other cases involving hitmen...
  
  , contract killer
• K-Way (Italian, French) — Windbreaker
  Windbreaker
  A windbreaker is a thin outer coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain . It is usually of light construction, characteristically made of some type of synthetic material and often incorporating an elastic waistband and zipper...
  
  
• Lifting (Croatian, French, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Swiss German) — facelift
  Facelift
  Facelift is the common name for rhytidectomy, a cosmetic surgery procedure.Facelift may also refer to:* Facelift , the revival of a product through cosmetic means such as changing its appearance...
  
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• Limousine or Limousine bus (Korean 리무진 버스, Japanese リムジンバス, Turkish) - airport shuttle
• Limousine (Some Arabic dialects) - taxi
  Taxicab
  A taxicab, also taxi or cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice...
  
  
• Living (French, Romanian, Flemish) — living room
  Living room
  A living room, also known as sitting room, lounge room or lounge , is a room for entertaining adult guests, reading, or other activities...
  
  
• Luna park (Greek, Italian, Turkish) — funfair
  Funfair
  A funfair or simply "fair" is a small to medium sized travelling show primarily composed of stalls and other amusements. Larger fairs such as the permanent fairs of cities and seaside resorts might be called a fairground, although technically this should refer to the land where a fair is...
  
  
• Mail (Croatian, French, Norwegian) — electronic mail or e-mail
  E-mail
  Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
  
  
• Marketing (Arbic, Croatian, Serbian) — advertising
  Advertising
  Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
  
  
• Mobbing (German, Croatian, Norwegian) — bullying
• Montgomery
  Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
  Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC , nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General" was a British Army officer. He saw action in the First World War, when he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the 8th Army from...
  
  (Greek, Italian) — duffel coat
• MV (Chinese, Korean) — music video
  Music video
  A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
  
  
• Oldtimer — (Dutch, German, Croatian) — vintage car
  Vintage car
  A vintage car is commonly defined as a car built between the start of 1919 and the end of 1930 known as the "Vintage era". There is little debate about the start date of the vintage period—the end of World War I is a nicely defined marker there—but the end date is a matter of a little...
  
   (or bike or aircraft or boat)
• Open space (French, Romanian) — Open plan office
• Pants (Japanese パンツ) - Underwear (Although this is how the word is used in British English.)
• Panty or panti (Dutch, Spanish) — pantyhose
  Pantyhose
  Pantyhose are sheer, close-fitting legwear, covering the wearer's body from the waist to the feet. Mostly considered to be a woman's and girl's garment, pantyhose appeared in the 1960s, and they provided a convenient alternative to stockings...
  
  
• Parking (Arabic, Croatian, French, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian паркинг, Spanish, Swiss German, Flemish) — parking lot
  Parking lot
  A parking lot , also known as car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles. Usually, the term refers to a dedicated area that has been provided with a durable or semi-durable surface....
  
   / car park
• Peeling (Romanian, Russian пилинг, Spanish) — facial or body scrub
• Pickup (Dutch, Greek) — turntable
  Turntable
  A turntable is generally a rotating platform, and may refer to:-Music:* Turntable, a motor-driven platform that normally rotates a gramophone record at a constant rotational velocity as part of a phonograph....
  
  
• Playback (Arabic, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish) — lip sync
  Lip sync
  Lip sync, lip-sync, lip-synch is a technical term for matching lip movements with sung or spoken vocals...
  
   (in songs) / Lip-synching in music
  Lip-synching in music
  Lip-synching in music is "moving the lips in synchronization with [pre-]recorded speech or song" to give the appearance of a 'live' performance. It is generally considered dishonest, though some producers argue that it needs to be done in some performance contexts...
  
  
• Poker (Croatian, Hungarian, Serbian) — either the game
  Poker
  Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
  
   or four of a kind
  Four of a Kind
  Four of a Kind is the debut feature film for director Fiona Cochrane. It was completed in 2008 and released in 2009.It is based on the stage play Disclosure by Helen Collins as presented at La Mama Theatre during the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It was shot on location in Melbourne,...
  
  
• Pressing (Italian, Swiss German) — forcing (in sport)
• Pullman (Greek, Italian) — motor coach
  Coach (vehicle)
  A coach is a large motor vehicle, a type of bus, used for conveying passengers on excursions and on longer distance express coach scheduled transport between cities - or even between countries...
  
  , tour or inter-city bus, not a railway vehicle
• Puzzle (Arabic, Croatian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Russian паззл, Turkish) — jigsaw puzzle
  Jigsaw puzzle
  A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces.Each piece usually has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture...
  
   (rather than puzzle in general)
• Reality (Croatian, Greek, Italian) — reality show
• Recordman (French, Italian, Greek, Romanian) — record holder in sports
• Scotch (French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian скотч) a clear adhesive tape
  Adhesive tape
  Adhesive tape is one of many varieties of backing materials coated with an adhesive. Several types of adhesives can be used.-Types:Pressure sensitive tape...
  
   of any brand
• Service (Korean 서비스, Japanese サービス) — free, complimentary, from 'self service'
• Sharp pencil (Korean 샤프펜슬, Japanese シャープペンシル) — a mechanical pencil
  Mechanical pencil
  A mechanical pencil or a propelling pencil is a pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core called a lead . It is designed such that the lead can be extended as its point is worn away...
  
  .
• Skilift (Croatian, Italian) — platter lift
  Platter lift
  A platter lift , platter pull or button lift is a surface lift, a mechanized system for pulling skiers and snowboarders uphill, along the surface of the slope. In Europe they are also known as Poma lifts...
  
  
• Slip (Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Turkish) — briefs
  Briefs
  Briefs are a type of short, tight underwear and swimwear, as opposed to styles where the material extends down the legs.In the case of men's underwear, briefs, unlike boxer shorts, hold the wearer's genitals in a relatively fixed position, which make briefs a popular underwear choice for men who...
  
  
• Smoking (Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian smoching, Russian смокинг, Swedish, Turkish, Spanish esmoquin) — a dinner jacket or tuxedo
  Tuxedo
  A tuxedo is a type of semi-formal dress for men.Tuxedo may also refer to:-Places:Canada* Tuxedo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city neighborhood** Tuxedo , a provincial electoral district in Manitoba...
  
  , rather than a smoking jacket
  Smoking jacket
  A smoking jacket is an overgarment designed to be worn while smoking tobacco, usually in the form of pipes and cigars, or for domestic leisure.-Design:The classic smoking jacket is a mid thigh-length jacket made from velvet or silk, or both...
  
   in the Edwardian sense
• Speaker (French, Italian, Polish; Croatian spiker, Turkish) — announcer
• String (Dutch, French, German, Greek, Polish, Russian стринги, Turkish) — G-string
  G-string
  A G-string is a type of thong underwear or swimsuit, a narrow piece of cloth, leather, or plastic, that covers or holds the genitals, passes between the buttocks, and is attached to a band around the hips, worn as swimwear or underwear by women and men...
  
  
• Strip (Croatian, Dutch, Serbian) — comics
  Comics
  Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
  
  , comic book
  Comic book
  A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
  
   or comic strip
  Comic strip
  A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
  
  
• Telefilm (Croatian, Italian) — film
  Film
  A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
  
  ed TV series
• Ticket Restaurant (French, Italian) — meal ticket or Luncheon Voucher
  Luncheon Voucher
  A Luncheon Voucher is a paper ticket used by some employees in the United Kingdom to pay for meals in private restaurants. It allows companies to subsidise mid-day meals for their employees without having to run their own canteens.The scheme dates back to 1946, when food rationing was still in...
  
  
• Toast (Croatian, Greek, Italian, Turkish) — toasted sandwich
• Topfit (Dutch, German) — perfectly physically fit
• Training (Hungarian tréning, Hebrew טריינינג, Romanian trening) — tracksuit
• Transistor (Greek), tranzistor (Croatian) — portable radio
• Trench (French, Italian) — trench coat
  Trench coat
  A trench coat or trenchcoat is a raincoat made of waterproof heavy-duty cotton drill or poplin, wool gabardine, or leather. It generally has a removable insulated lining; and it is usually knee-length.-History:...
  
  
• Videoclip (Arabic, Croatian, Greek, Romanian) — music video
  Music video
  A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
  
  
• Volley (Arabic, French, Greek, Italian) — volleyball
  Volleyball
  Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
  
  
• Wellness (Croatian, Hungarian) — feeling well by expensive means, especially in a chic hotel near a spa

Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

• ABC — American-born Chinese, also CBC = Canadian-born Chinese, BBC = British-born Chinese, etc.
• BB call — pager
• DM — flyer, brochure, junk mail (from "direct mail
  Direct mail
  Advertising mail, also known as direct mail, junk mail, or admail, is the delivery of advertising material to recipients of postal mail. The delivery of advertising mail forms a large and growing service for many postal services, and direct-mail marketing forms a significant portion of the direct...
  
  ")
• MIT — Made in Taiwan
• VC — Vitamin C

Croatian

Croatian language

Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

• Biftek - beef steak
• Body — Bodysuit
  Bodysuit
  In clothing, a bodysuit, body-liner, or body is a unisex form-fitting garment that covers the torso. The bodysuit often has sleeves and varying collars. A bodysuit is distinguished from the similar leotard by the use of snaps or hooks at the crotch. A bodysuit may be worn as a top for the smooth...
  
  
• Dres — sports uniform, kit

Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

• Babylift (beɪ̯bilifd) — baby transport
  Baby transport
  Baby transport consists of devices for transporting and carrying infants. A "child carrier" or "baby carrier" is a device used to carry an infant or small child on the body of an adult...
  
  /carrycot
• Butterfly — a bow tie
• Timemanager — a calendar or notebook in which you write down appointments (from the registered trademark Time Manager)

Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

• Airco - air conditioning
  Air conditioning
  An air conditioner is a home appliance, system, or mechanism designed to dehumidify and extract heat from an area. The cooling is done using a simple refrigeration cycle...
  
  
• Bandrecorder — tape recorder
  Tape recorder
  An audio tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage...
  
  
• Boiler - a water heater and not a central heating boiler
• Coffeeshop — a store selling cannabis
  Cannabis
  Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis. These three taxa are indigenous to Central Asia, and South Asia. Cannabis has long been used for fibre , for seed and seed oils, for medicinal purposes, and as a...
  
   (or, colloquially, other psychedelic drugs)
• Dumpstore — an army surplus store
• Fitness (also in many other European languages) — fitness training as a kind of gymnastics; also, a place for fitness training
• Junk — a drug addict (in English that would be Junkie
  Substance dependence
  The section about substance dependence in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders does not use the word addiction at all. It explains:...
  
  )
• (Koffie)pad — (coffee) pod
  Coffee pod
  Coffee pods are pre-packaged ground coffee beans in their own filter. In certain non-English speaking countries, such as Germany and The Netherlands, the word "pad" is used instead of "pod", for semantic reasons....
  
  
• "Living" (in Flemish
  Flemish
  Flemish can refer to anything related to Flanders, and may refer directly to the following articles:*Flemish, an informal, though linguistically incorrect, name of any kind of the Dutch language as spoken in Belgium....
  
   Dutch) — living room
  Living room
  A living room, also known as sitting room, lounge room or lounge , is a room for entertaining adult guests, reading, or other activities...
  
  
• Loverboy — a pimp who grooms (often very young) women to fall in love with him, in order to force them into prostitution.
• Occasion — bargain
  Bargain
  Bargain could mean some of the following:* The process whereby buyer and seller agree the price of goods or services. See bargaining.* An agreement to exchange goods at a price.* Such an agreement where one of the parties thinks the price is very favourable....
  
   (especially a car sold at a favourable price), or even: second-hand car. Originally a French loanword with the meaning of "bargain" and pronounced as in French, it is now often pronounced as in English
• Pocket — paperback
  Paperback
  Paperback, softback or softcover describe and refer to a book by the nature of its binding. The covers of such books are usually made of paper or paperboard, and are usually held together with glue rather than stitches or staples...
  
   book
• Sheets — transparencies
  Transparency (projection)
  A transparency, also known in industrial settings as a "viewfoil" or "foil", is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically cellulose acetate, onto which figures can be drawn. These are then placed on an overhead projector for display to an audience...
  
   or computer presentation slides
• Songtext — lyrics
  Lyrics
  Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
  
  
• Touringcar — refers to a Coach (vehicle)
  Coach (vehicle)
  A coach is a large motor vehicle, a type of bus, used for conveying passengers on excursions and on longer distance express coach scheduled transport between cities - or even between countries...
  
   and not a Touring car
  Touring car
  A touring car, or tourer, is an open car seating five or more. Touring cars may have two or four doors. Often, the belt line is lowered in the front doors to give the car a more sportive character. They were often fitted with a folding roof and side curtains. Engines on early models were either in...
  
  , which is both an automobile body shape and classification of racing car.

Filipino languages

Languages of the Philippines

In the Philippines, there are between 120 and 175 languages, depending on the method of classification. Four languages no longer have any known speakers. Almost all the Philippine languages belong to the Austronesian language family...

• Bad shot – To get on someone's bad side or to make a bad impression.
• Bad trip – An unfortunate situation. May mean "bummer".
• Bold – May refer to nudity
• Bold movie – A movie with nude or sexually-explicit scenes
• Chancing – To make a sexual advance
• C.R. (Comfort Room) – Toilet, bathroom
• Gimmick or Gimik – A night out with friends. Also, any offering during evening hours by clubs, bars and restaurants to lure customers in.
• Slang
  Slang
  Slang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered more acceptable when used socially. Slang is often to be found in areas of the lexicon that refer to things considered taboo...
  
  – May refer to strong foreign accents and pronunciation. Also occurs in Malay
  Malay language
  Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
  
  .

French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

• Baby-foot — table football
  Table football
  Table football, also known as gitoni or foosball, is a table-top game and sport that is loosely based on association football.-Names:...
  
  
• Baskets — sports shoes
  Athletic shoe
  Athletic shoe is a generic name for the footwear primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but in recent years has come to be used for casual everyday activities....
  
  
• Blue-jean — jeans, denims, denim (the material)
• Box — internet access devices, following the trend of brand naming initiated with Free Telecom's "Freebox", then imitated by others (Livebox, Neufbox...)
• Brushing — blow dry
• Building - large office block
• Caddie (kaˈdi) — shopping trolley
  Shopping Trolley
  "Shopping Trolley" was a 2006 single by English songwriter Beth Orton. It was released as a 2 CD single set and 12 inch vinyl , and an early version of the title song can be purchased from iTunes.-CD: EMI / CDEMS 694 United Kingdom :# "Shopping Trolley"...
  
  , refers to the brand Caddie.
• Dressing — dressing room
• Fashion — as an adjective
  Adjective
  In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified....
  
   rather than a noun
  Noun
  In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition .Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of...
  
  
• Foot — Football (soccer) (In Canadian French, this would refer to Canadian football
  Canadian football
  Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
  
  , or sometimes in context to American football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
  . Association football is le soccer .)
• Forcing as in faire le forcing — to pressure
• de grand standing — high class (of property), luxury (flat, apartment)
• Jogging — Tracksuit
  Tracksuit
  A tracksuit is an article of clothing consisting of two parts: trousers and a jacket usually with front zipper. It was originally intended for use in sports, mainly as what athletes wore over competition clothing and would take off before competition. In modern times, it has become commonly worn...
  
   (jogging suit)
• Just (adj.) (dʒœst) — 'C'était just !' = tight, as in we "just" barely made it, it was a tight squeeze.
• Mailing (m) - direct mail advertising, email marketing (campaign)
• Paper board — flip chart
  Flip chart
  A flip chart is a stationery item resembling a whiteboard, typically supported on a tripod or four-legged easel. A pad of paper sheets is typically fixed to the upper edge. Such charts are commonly used for presentations. The flip chart is thought to have been invented by Peter Kent who built one...
  
  
• People (sometimes spelt pipeuls, pipoles) — celebs, also used as adjective (ex. "Il est très people"), refers to the US magazine People
  People (magazine)
  In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
  
  
• Planning (m) - schedule, to-do list
• Pressing — dry cleaning
  Dry cleaning
  Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a chemical solvent other than water. The solvent used is typically tetrachloroethylene , abbreviated "perc" in the industry and "dry-cleaning fluid" by the public...
  
   shop
• Pull — pullover
  Pullover
  Pullover may refer to:* Pullover Productions, UK producer of the children's television programme Pullover in the early 1980s* Sweater or hoodie, a piece of clothing "pulled over" the head instead of buttoned or zipped-up...
  
  , sweater
• Recordman, recordwoman — record holder in sports
• Relooking — makeover
  Makeover
  A makeover is a term applied to changing one's appearance, sometimes through cosmetics. Makeovers can range from something as simple as a new haircut, to the use of cosmetic surgery, to the extreme of the implantation of dental veneers, eye-color-changing contact lenses, and the use of...
  
   (also: relooker — give a makeover to)
• Rugbyman — rugby player
• Self — self-service restaurant
• Sig (in cartoons) — sigh
• Speaker or Speakerine — announcer (radio, TV, railway etc.)
• Sweat — sweater
• Tennisman — tennis player
• Top (adj.) — brilliant, great
• Warning(s) (m) - (car) hazard-lights
• Zapping (m) - (TV) channel-surfing, channel-hopping
• Zoning — industrial estate

German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

• Black Music (also in French) — music in the hip-hop/rap genre
• Body Bag — shoulder bag. The bag which is slung across the midriff in English is called cross-body bag. In Germany, Body Bag is a registered trademark.
• Box — High fidelity loudspeaker
• Castingshow — talent search television series
• Cornflakes — any breakfast cereal
• Chatten — form of communication over an online chat
• Dressman — male model
• Drive In — drive-thru restaurant
• Ego-Shooter — first-person shooter (derived from Latin "Ego" = "I")
• Funeralmaster — undertaker.
• Funsport — a sport primarily practised in leisure time and for fun
• Handy — mobile phone
• Highboard — a table-high cupboard
• Homepage — website
• Horrortrip — bad trip
  Bad trip
  Bad trip is a disturbing experience sometimes associated with use of a psychedelic drug such as LSD, Salvinorin A, DXM, mescaline, psilocybin, DMT and sometimes even other drugs including cannabis, alcohol and MDMA....
  
  
• Inboard-Kamera — onboard camera
• Inliner — inline skates (shoes)
• Kicker — table football
  Table football
  Table football, also known as gitoni or foosball, is a table-top game and sport that is loosely based on association football.-Names:...
  
   ("foosball" in American English, a variation on the German word "Fußball" (football))
• Leader(innen)board — provisional ranking; in English leader board is only used in professional golf and for a collection of important rules and statements of a Christian sect
• Lifting — taking the ski lift uphill. Common term in Kühtai region in Austria
• Logical — riddle/puzzle to be solved by logical thought
• Longseller — long-term (best)seller
• Messie — a "pack rat", a person engaging in compulsive hoarding
  Compulsive hoarding
  Compulsive hoarding is the acquisition of possessions in excess of socially normative amounts, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary...
  
  
• Musicbox — jukebox
• Oldtimer — vintage car
• Pocketbook — paperback
• Public Viewing — showing of football matches on giant screens in public
• Pullunder, often Pollunder or Polunder — sweater vest
• Punky — a punk
• Roastbeef - a cut of beef located roughly at the short loin (US) or sirloin (UK)
• Rowdy — thug, hooligan
• Shootingstar — successful newcomer (sports, music, literature, business, politics...)
• Shorty — shorts
• Slipper — lace-less shoes
• Showmaster — show host
• Talkmaster — talk show host
• Trainings- — in compound terms such as Trainingsanzug, -hose, and -jacke for tracksuit, - trousers, and - top
• Twen — a person in his or her twenties, or the time period of one's twenties

Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

• Barwoman — barmaid
• Gallup opinion poll
  Opinion poll
  An opinion poll, sometimes simply referred to as a poll is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence...
  
  
• Jean — denim
  Denim
  Denim is a rugged cotton twill textile, in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This produces the familiar diagonal ribbing identifiable on the reverse of the fabric, which distinguishes denim from cotton duck. Denim has been in American usage since the late 18th century...
  
  
• Trolley — trolleybus
  Trolleybus
  A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from overhead wires using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires and poles are required to complete the electrical circuit...
  
  

Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

• Drill — three of a kind
  Three of a Kind
  Three of a Kind was a British comedy sketch show starring comedians Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry and David Copperfield. Three series were made by the BBC between 1981 and 1983....
  
   in poker.
• Farmer means "denim
  Denim
  Denim is a rugged cotton twill textile, in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This produces the familiar diagonal ribbing identifiable on the reverse of the fabric, which distinguishes denim from cotton duck. Denim has been in American usage since the late 18th century...
  
  " as well as "(blue) jeans
  Jeans
  Jeans are trousers made from denim. Some of the earliest American blue jeans were made by Jacob Davis, Calvin Rogers, and Levi Strauss in 1873. Starting in the 1950s, jeans, originally designed for cowboys, became popular among teenagers. Historic brands include Levi's, Lee, and Wrangler...
  
  " made of denim

Israeli Hebrew

• Back-Axe (בק-אקס) - rear axle
• Coacher (קואוצ'ר) - practitioner of life-coaching, a coach.
• Front Back-Axe (פרונט בק-אקס) - front axle
• Golf (גולף) — turtleneck sweater/jersey
• Nylon (ניילון) - any form of flexible plastic
  Plastic
  A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids used in the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular mass, and may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce production costs...
  
  
• Patent (patent פטנט) - an improvisation/innovation
• Puncture (פנצ'ר) - any mishap causing a delay
• Sneakers (סניקרס) - refers only to three-striped sports shoes, not to all sneakers
• Talkback (tokbek טוקבק) - A comment on a blog
  Blog
  A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
  
   or a internet news site

Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

• Autogrill (ˈaʊtoɡrɪl) — motorway snack bar (used for any brand, not only for Autogrill
  Autogrill
  Autogrill is an Italian-based, multinational catering and retail company, the world's largest in the travel dining sector, which is controlled with a 59% stake by the Edizione Holding investment vehicle of the Benetton family. Autogrill runs operations in 40 different countries, primarily in Europe...
  
   chain)
• Baby killer — juvenile murderer
• Bar — café
  Café
  A café , also spelled cafe, in most countries refers to an establishment which focuses on serving coffee, like an American coffeehouse. In the United States, it may refer to an informal restaurant, offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches...
  
   (the English "bar" is called "pub" in Italy)
• Beauty case or Beauty — vanity bag
• Body rental — temporary staffing firm
  Employment agency
  An employment agency is an organization which matches employers to employees. In all developed countries there is a publicly funded employment agency and multiple private businesses which also act as employment agencies.-Public employment agencies:...
  
  
• Box (in motorsports) — place on a race track where pit stops are conducted
• Box doccia — shower cubicle
• Cargo — cargo
  Cargo
  Cargo is goods or produce transported, generally for commercial gain, by ship, aircraft, train, van or truck. In modern times, containers are used in most intermodal long-haul cargo transport.-Marine:...
  
   boat
• Charleston (instrument) — Hi-hat
  Hi-hat
  A hi-hat, or hihat, is a type of cymbal and stand used as a typical part of a drum kit by percussionists in R&B, hip-hop, disco, jazz, rock and roll, house, reggae and other forms of contemporary popular music.- Operation :...
  
  
• Custom — custom motorcycle
  Custom motorcycle
  A custom motorcycle is a motorcycle that is highly stylized or which treats aspects such as frame geometry, engine design, or paintwork in an unusual way compared to standard manufacturing. Custom motorcycles are unique or individually produced in a very limited quantity, as opposed to "stock"...
  
  
• Fiction — TV miniseries
  Miniseries
  A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
  
  
• Golf — sweater
  Sweater
  A sweater, jumper, pullover, sweatshirt, jersey or guernsey is a garment intended to cover the torso and arms. It is often worn over a shirt, blouse, T-shirt, or other top, but may also be worn alone as a top...
  
  /jumper
  Jumper
  -Clothing:*Sweater or heavy sweater pulled on over the head, used in the UK and Commonwealth*Jumper , in the USA, a sleeveless, collarless dress, known elsewhere as a pinafore or pinafore dress* Part of the uniform of the United States Navy...
  
  
• Hostess — female flight attendant
  Flight attendant
  Flight attendants or cabin crew are members of an aircrew employed by airlines primarily to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers aboard commercial flights, on select business jet aircraft, and on some military aircraft.-History:The role of a flight attendant derives from that of similar...
  
  , stewardess
• Mister (in football) — coach
  Coach (sport)
  In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
  
  
• Night — nightclub
  Nightclub
  A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
  
  
• Sexy shop — sex shop
  Sex shop
  A sex shop, erotic shop is a shop that sells products related to adult sexual or erotic entertainment, such as sex toys, lingerie, clothing, pornography, and other related products...
  
  
• Stage (staʒ from French stage "internship", but also [steidʒ] via erroneous connection to the English stage) — internship
• Ticket — cost associated to a service provided by national health care system
• Tight — morning suit
• Trolley — trolley case
• Tutor or Safety tutor — SPECS (speed camera)
• Water (ˈvater) — water closet

Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

— title for a person in office — video game, portmanteau of "family" and "computer" — a type of short-stay hotel — a female office worker - paedophile, portmanteau of "lolita" and "complex" — a condominium apartment — slim or skinny — a woman's figure (particularly if slim or skinny)

Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

• Apart — this word is used to mean not only individual suites, but "apartment building" or "apartment complex"
• Fighting — a Korean cheer that can roughly be translated as "Victory!" but can also be used as a word of encouragement (a la "Courage!")
• Note - a notebook
  Notebook
  A notebook is a book or binder composed of pages of notes, often ruled, made out of paper, used for purposes including recording notes or memoranda, writing, drawing, and scrapbooking....
  
  
• Officetel
  Officetel
  In South Korea, an officetel , is a multi-purpose building with residential and commercial units.This is a type of studio apartment or studio flat....
  
  — this word is a portmanteau of "office
  Office
  An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the...
  
  " and "hotel
  Hotel
  A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...
  
  " and means office and hotel combined'
• One room — a bachelor-style studio apartment
• One shot — a form of toast, roughly equivalent to "bottoms up". It challenges the drinker to finish his drink in one gulp
• Skin scuba — scuba-diving

Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

• Dress (dres, dresy) — tracksuit
  Tracksuit
  A tracksuit is an article of clothing consisting of two parts: trousers and a jacket usually with front zipper. It was originally intended for use in sports, mainly as what athletes wore over competition clothing and would take off before competition. In modern times, it has become commonly worn...
  
  ; sometimes also chav
  Chav
  A chav is a term that is used in the United Kingdom to describe a stereotype of teenagers and young adults from an underclass background.-Etymology:...
  
  (s)

Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

• Cooper — To jog
• Funk — A style of music from Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
  
  , completely unrelated to American funk music
• Night — (Brazilian Portugese) Nightlife, particularly meeting members of the opposite sex
• Outdoor — Billboard
  Billboard
  Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
  
  , using the English adjective as a noun
• Shopping — Shopping mall
  Shopping mall
  A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...
  
  , using the English gerund as a noun
• Show — Concert
  Concert
  A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...
  
  , particularly a popular-music concert ("concerto" is used mainly for classical music")
• Tuning — Car tuning
  Car tuning
  Car tuning is both an industry and a hobby, in which an automobile is modified in order to improve its performance, handling and appearance. As most vehicles leave the factory set up for average driver expectations and average conditions, tuning has become a way to personalize the characteristics...
  
  
• "Videogame" - (Brazilian Portuguese) Game console, although the term "console" is also used The videogames themselves are simply called "games", "jogos" (the standard translation for "game") or less ambiguously "jogos de videogame" (Console games)

Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

• Recordman — record holder in sports (feminine is recordmană)
• Tenisman — tennis player (feminine is tenismană)

Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

• Biker (байкер) — a member of a Motorcycle club
  Motorcycle club
  A motorcycle club is a group of individuals whose primary interest and activities involve motorcycles.In the U.S. the abbreviation, MC or MCC, can have a special social meaning from the point of view of the outlaw subcultures, and is usually reserved by them for those clubs that are mutually...
  
   rather than merely a motorcyclist
• Clipmaker (клипмейкер) — music video director
• Face control (фейс-контроль) — checking whether a person looks appropriate (a common practice at Russian night clubs)
• Killer (киллер) — a hitman
  Hitman
  A hitman is a person hired to kill another person.- Hitmen in organized crime :Hitmen are largely linked to the world of organized crime. Hitmen are hired people who kill people for money. Notable examples include Murder, Inc., Mafia hitmen and Richard Kuklinski.- Other cases involving hitmen...
  
   or assassin
• Kreativ (креатив) — inventiveness, creativity; the results of creative work
• Player (плеер, плейер) - Walkman
  Walkman
  Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette, and now used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of Sony Ericsson mobile phones...
  
  
• Safing (сейфинг) — providing safe deposit box
  Safe deposit box
  A safe deposit box or wrongly referred to as a safety deposit box is an individually-secured container, usually held within a larger safe or bank vault. Safe deposit boxes are generally located in banks, post offices or other institutions...
  
  es
• Shop-tour (шоп-тур) — an organized tour to a foreign country for shopping

Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

• Drugstore (Dragstor) - a corner store that is open in evenings or overnight. They do not offer pharmacy services.
• Goalman (Golman) - Goalkeeper
  Goalkeeper
  In many team sports which involve scoring goals, a goalkeeper is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by intercepting shots at goal...
  
  
• Insert — Movie clip
• Recorder (Rekorder) – record holder (in sports)
• Spot — Music video
  Music video
  A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
  
  

Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

• Bistec - beef steak
• Body – bodice
• Boxer — boxer shorts
• Heavy — slang term for that means awesome, excellent, great, etc. This word is used in the same way English speakers use the slang term "Cool". It also means "metalhead". Most likely form British slang word 'Heavy' meaning 'Cool'
• Inbox — email message
• Nuevo look — a makeover (hair, clothing, makeup etc.)
• Planning — plan, program
• Puenting (from puente, bridge) — a sport that involves jumping from a bridge. It is similar to bungee jumping
  Bungee jumping
  Bungee jumping is an activity that involves jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot-air-balloon or helicopter, that...
  
   except for the fact that the cord is non-elastic and that the jump ends in a pendulum-like movement.
• Round Point (in Colombia) — Roundabout
  Roundabout
  A roundabout is the name for a road junction in which traffic moves in one direction around a central island. The word dates from the early 20th century. Roundabouts are common in many countries around the world...
  
  
• Snow — an abbreviation for "snowboard
  Snowboard
  Snowboards are boards, usually with a width the length of one's foot, with the ability to glide on snow. Snowboards are differentiated from monoskis by the stance of the user...
  
  " as sport. The board is called tabla de snow
• Web — website

Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

• Smoking - Dinner jacket
• Walkman (as in a small portable cassette player) is usually replaced with "freestyle", despite the fact that the word does not fit particularly well with Swedish phonotactics
  Phonotactics
  Phonotactics is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes...
  
   or grammar
  Swedish grammar
  Swedish is descended from Old Norse. Compared to its progenitor, Swedish grammar is much less characterized by inflection. Modern Swedish has two genders and no longer conjugates verbs based on person or number...
  
  . Actually, Freestyle was the name chosen for marketing purposes in Sweden
  Sweden
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
  
  .

Thai

Thai language

Thai , also known as Central Thai and Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Historical linguists have been unable to definitively...

• Hi-so - High Society
  High Society
  High Society is a musical film starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, and made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The movie was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by John Patrick, based...
  
   describing someone who insists on designer labels

Turkish

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

• Body – bodybuilding
  Bodybuilding
  Bodybuilding is a form of body modification involving intensive muscle hypertrophy. An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive and professional bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their...
  
  
• Flirt - generally used as dating
• Cola (derived from Coca-Cola
  Coca-Cola
  Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...
  
  ) – refers to any soft drink
  Soft drink
  A soft drink is a non-alcoholic beverage that typically contains water , a sweetener, and a flavoring agent...
  
  

Vietnamese

Vietnamese language

Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...

• Camera - camcorder
  Camcorder
  A camcorder is an electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into one unit. Equipment manufacturers do not seem to have strict guidelines for the term usage...
  
  
• Dollar - explicitly US dollar
• Film - refers to both movies and soap opera
  Soap opera
  A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
  
  
• Photo - photocopy
• Remote - remote control
  Remote control
  A remote control is a component of an electronics device, most commonly a television set, used for operating the television device wirelessly from a short line-of-sight distance.The remote control is usually contracted to remote...
  
   - remote is a common term in Australian English
• Sex - wearing revealing clothes that make the wearer appear lustful
• Style - appearing teenage, active, playful and modern
• Vest - Western suit
  Suit
  -Garments:*Suit , a set of garments with matching pieces, including at least a coat and trousers**Formal wear, the general terms for clothing suitable for formal social events*Boilersuit, or coverall, a loose-fitting one-piece garment...
  
   in clothing

Sources

• James Stanlaw 2004, Japanese English: Language And The Culture Contact, Hong Kong University Press.
• Laura Miller 1997, "Wasei eigo: English ‘loanwords' coined in Japan" in The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright, edited by Jane Hill, P.J. Mistry and Lyle Campbell, Mouton/De Gruyter: The Hague, pp. 123–139.
• Geoff Parkes and Alan Cornell 1992, 'NTC's Dictionary of German False Cognates', National Textbook Company, NTC Publishing Group.
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann
  Ghil'ad Zuckermann
  Ghil'ad Zuckermann is an Israeli-Italian-British-Australian linguist, expert of language revival, contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity...
  
   2003, ‘‘Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew’’, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan
  Palgrave Macmillan
  Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company, headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom and with offices in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, Delhi, Johannesburg. It was created in 2000 when St...
  
  , (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change, Series editor: Charles Jones). ISBN 1-4039-1723-X.

See also

• Anglicism
  Anglicism
  An Anglicism, as most often defined, is a word borrowed from English into another language. "Anglicism" also describes English syntax, grammar, meaning, and structure used in another language with varying degrees of corruption.-Anglicisms in Chinese:...
  
  
• Barbarism
  Barbarism (grammar)
  Barbarism refers to a non-standard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly one prescriptively regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism is something prescriptively regarded as an error in syntax. The term is used mainly for the written language...
  
  
• Calque
  Calque
  In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word or root-for-root translation.-Calque:...
  
  
• Denglisch
  Denglisch
  Denglisch or Denglish is a portmanteau of the German words Deutsch and Englisch. Used in all German-speaking and Dutch-speaking countries, it describes an influx of English, or pseudo-English, vocabulary into the German or Dutch language through travel and the widespread usage of English in...
  
  
• False friends
• Language transfer
• Loanword
  Loanword
  A loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept where the meaning or idiom is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself. The word loanword is itself a calque of the German Lehnwort,...
  
  
• List of pseudo-German words adapted to English
• List of pseudo-French words adapted to English
• Phono-semantic matching
  Phono-semantic matching
  Phono-semantic matching is a linguistic term referring to camouflaged borrowing in which a foreign word is matched with a phonetically and semantically similar pre-existent native word/root....
  
  

External links

• Examples of Japanese pseudo-anglicisms