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Germansplaining

Well-known cultural phenomenon in Europe in which a German-thinking individual (usually from Germany, Austria, or Switzerland) that you may have never interacted with before notices something distressing and promptly steps out of their comfort zone to 'help' , by systematically lecturing you on all the things that you are doing wrong about your life and all the things that you should and are not doing.

A non-verbal form of Germansplainin is also known as the GLOD (German Look of Disapproval)
"Some old man started Germansplaining to me while I was walking down the street"
"What did he tell you?"
"I don't know, I don't speak German"
Germansplaining by xp93 February 24, 2019
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Germanese 

An incorrect reference to the German language used by Dutch kids who don't understand Flemish.
"Do you guys speak Dutch? "
"No, we speak Germanese. "
Germanese by dwoazen appel November 9, 2020

Germanistan 

Islamic state under sharia law in western Europe. Formerly referred to as Germany.
Germanistan is filled with nothing but people worshiping a peaceful religion.
Germanistan by Smith Clark June 11, 2018

GermanDeli

An Internet site where people who miss German food and German groceries in the USA find what they've been craving.
German food groceries imported food German specialties foodies GermanDeli.com
GermanDeli by Deli-dweller February 5, 2010
A group of people living mostly in Germany, the beaches of Southern Spain and Pennsylvania. They are great at pretty much everything, and have invented most technical gear you own or would like to own.

Being an awesome nation, a short Austrian named Hitler managed to make these good-humored people think they were the master race. This soon turned out to be false, and to this day, Germans travel the globe apologizing profusely for ever believing that crap.

Germans are known to be great lovers, although they often dress poorly and sometimes sport moustaches. That's why Karl Lagerfeld pretends to be French. As a rule of thumb, Germans posses the inverse skill set of the English, who suck at everything except wearing really, really, really groovy clothes and writing catchy pop songs.

Famous Germans include Beethoven, Wagner, the Scorpions, Einstein, Luther, Boris Becker, Kant, Milli Vanilli and most British Royalty. Ahmadinejad and Tom Cruise secretly want to be German, but they can't.
Your mum: Look at these guys, they are building a great car. Are they Japanese?

You: No, doh. They are tall and handsome, so obviously they are Germans. Let's go and nag them about the holocaust. (they walk over)

Hans: Ve are so sorry about what happened...
Fritz: Sorry.
Germans by Kurt von Kraut December 2, 2009

Before Ze Germans Get here 

(Idiom) You are working too slow.

The base is rather obviously World War Two, and the source is southern Britain, flooded by fleeing French with a Ze accent. The term was used by British towards French to make them work faster so there was a hope of liberation.
Come on Pierre, before ze germans get here we need that milk crate!

germanish 

A pretend language comprised of poorly pronounced or spelt German by a native English speaker. The word can be either thought of as partly german (hense the -ish) or a mixture between German and English (German-English with "engl" removed). Common attempted german words include sehr, grob (instead of groß) and anything you might expect to have learnt in a year at school.
Person1: Ish bin sehr grob. Mein kat izt grob. Ich kan nisht spreken doitsh...
Person2: That's not german, thats germanish.
germanish by teemee123 May 27, 2015