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It’s a small-village-west -of-London colloquialism for being broke, for having no money.

It’s roots stem back to a rowdy game of Scrabble during my college years, it was a triple word score, and a verb described by a fellow player in a Clouseauesque accent as meaning 'to be penniless'. It's still used today, twenty five years later.
I am broke and have no money, I am ferneh.’
ferneh by Paul Gaff December 20, 2004
He watched too much Fernsehen.
Fernsehen by philipfizurjr@gmail.com December 23, 2017

Fernsehenfutterheißhunger 

A craving for food induced by seeing that food on TV. Clearly of Germanic origin.
I got crazy Fernsehenfutterheißhunger for sauerkraut watching Top Secret.
A desire to be somewhere you belong, mostly alone
"Man I think I'm feeling fernwoh, I haven't felt right anywhere recently"
fernwoh by a_lc April 3, 2022