petermorwood:

justhere4coffee:

did-you-kno:

‘Backpfeifengesicht’ is the
German word for a face that’s
badly in need of a punch. Source Source 2

#germans have a word for everything and your smug-ass face is no exception

A face in need of a fist…

That’s a fascinating compound word, because Gesicht = face but Backpfeife = slap in the face, so literally “Er hat so ein Backpfeifengesicht” = “he has such a slap-in-the-face face.”
An eminently slappable mug, I suppose.

My Collins German / English dictionary also has “Ohrfeigengesicht”, meaning “fish-face” (?) and the phrase “Er hat ein richtiges Ohrfeigengesicht” which translates as “he’s got the sort of face you’d like to put your fist into”.

German is
an interesting language…