 | English  | German | |
 | [Doppel-Wumms / Doppelwumms: newly coined word by the German chancellor Olaf Scholz in 2022; literally: double bang] | Doppel-Wumms {m} [auch: Doppelwumms] [Begriff geprägt von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, 2022] | |
| pol. [nickname for the German SPD politician Olaf Scholz, coined while he was secretary general (2002-2004) – when he was found to repeat (like an automat) statements of other party leaders] | Scholzomat {m} [auch: Scholz-O-Mat, Scholz-o-mat, Scholz-o-Mat, Scholz-O-mat] [Spitzname für Olaf Scholz] | |
| ling. sniglet ["humorous neologism"; "sniglet" itself being coined in the 1980s] | scherzhafte Neubildung {f} | |
| 2 Words |
| jobs mini-job [also: mini job] [coined in Germany to describe a form of marginal employment] | Minijob {m} [auch: Mini-Job] | |
| spec. strange loop [coined by Douglas Hofstadter] | seltsame Schleife {f} [auch: Seltsame Schleife] [nach Douglas Hofstadter] | |
| 3 Words |
| sociol. cereal-packet family [coined by Edmund Leach] [nuclear family] | Kernfamilie {f} | |
| 4 Words |
| geogr. hist. Baghdad by the Bay [dated] [San Franciso] [nickname coined by the journalist Herb Caen] | [San Francisco] | |
| biol. quote survival of the fittest [coined by Herbert Spencer 1864, then also used by Charles Darwin] | Überleben {n} des Angepasstesten | |
| biol. quote survival of the fittest [coined by Herbert Spencer 1864, then also used by Charles Darwin] | Überleben {n} des Stärkeren [Standardübersetzung, richtig: Überleben des Angepasstesten] | |
| 5+ Words |
| lit. proverb quote Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. [coined by Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism] | Blinder Eifer schadet nur. [Freie Übersetzung] | |
| proverb To err is human, to forgive is divine [coined by Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism] | Irren ist menschlich, vergeben ist göttlich. | |
