Tingo calendar : 365 astonishing words from around the world

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Compulsive word collector Adam Jacot de Boinod is back with this amusing calendar featuring the strangest words from around the world and their secret, incredible or funny meanings. Did you know that a zechpreller in German is someone who leaves without paying the bill, or that the Tagalog word pamutas-silya refers to ladies who go to dances, but not to dance ?

With its eye-catching design and fantastically strange definitions, the Tingo Calendar offers you a daily feast of words from 1 January to 31 December.