Neologology

I often moan about how short Romance languages are on neologisms. Here‘s yet another list of Dutch innovations, of which I think boeddhabuikje -> budabarriguita, for a woman’s beer-belly, would work here with little explanation, although there’d be the usual hassle about compound nouns.

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