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Noun, South Africa.
A mentally challenged person, or someone who is a bit stupid.
The literal translation is garlic (imagine a whole bulb), and pronounced as Ka-Noff-El.
It can be used in both a derogatory or endearing term, though most often the former.
(After stupid incident, insult)
Person: "Piet, jy es 'n bladdy knoffel!" (Piet, you're a bloody idiot).

(In conversation, descriptive)
Person: "Shame, have you seen Lizzie's child, she's a bit of a knoffel..."
Knoffel by KingmanSA April 27, 2014
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the dutch word for hug or cuddle
person 1: "give me a knuffel pwease"
person 2: "awwwww sure, since you have gone to the trouble of speaking dutch and all"
knuffel by hm.... September 21, 2005
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knuffelcontact

Person, other than possible members of your family, with whom you may have close (physical) contact, without distance, without a mouth mask, during a pandemic (especially during the covid-19 outbreak). The term has been coined by '' and is a composition of 'knuffelen' (verb, hugging) and 'contact' (noun).
"Why is she over at your place? There's a pandemic going on." —"Oh, don't worry, she's my knuffelcontact"
"Are you guys together?" —"No, she's just my knuffelcontact"
knuffelcontact by bn326160 December 25, 2020
A cup of water that, in replacement of ice, has razor blades and is normally drank by the people of Genovia.
I’ll beat your with the knoffe special!
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of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
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The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
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To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
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