Leukerd is a Dutch word that I don’t know the exact meaning of. One dictionary tells me it means “funny guy” but that won’t do. I’ve come up with a hundred alternate definitions and may well come up with some more soon.
42. Little-known 1970s Swedish saxophone/melodion duo.
43. Chocolate fondue.
44. Hot rocks.
45. Goose chills.
46. When the weather at a particular time of the year is unusual.
47. To ask “why?”.
48. Fake laughter.
49. To pretend to be in de-tox.
50. Herding sheep.
32. To congregate near a train station entrance waiting for 6pm to tick over, so as to take advantage of the fact that after 6pm a two hour ticket lasts until 2am the next day.
33. To pretend to be interested in football.
34. An adopted child.
35. The study of ferry timetables.
36. Stifled cries.
37. To throw out all of your underpants.
38. The mating sound made by black cats.
39. To want to die.
40. A misleading translation.
22. Time traveller.
23. To play phone-tag, eg: “Yeah, well I rang him and left a message and then he rang back and left a message and so I texted him and he texted me back and finally I tried calling his work number from a public phone and got through. Boy, am I sick of all this leukerding.”
24. A gentle lover.
25. Missing guitar strings.
26. Form of 18th century parlour game in which the object is to catalogue the various ways in which you would like to die, should you be given a choice.
27. Clear alcoholic fluid made from spit.
28. To attempt to ride a bike on public transport.
29. The hour between midnight and 1am.
30. A massive explosion.
12. Guus Hiddink.
13. A toothbrush.
14. Small blister caused by badly-fitting roller skates.
15. To skate around a roller rink while holding onto the guard rail.
16. Noise made by small cats after drinking too much milk.
17. Turkish delight.
18. Affectionate name for Buddha.
19. To live in a crowded house.
20. Special, or nice.
2. The feeling when one forget one’s own PIN, and thus end up watching in horror as the machine swallows one’s ATM card. “All of a sudden I felt leukerd, then just stupid.”
3. To dance perpetually in a room containing one wooden chair. “Then he began to leukerd – wow.”
4. Slang word for an older man. “Well, he’s nice – but he is a bit leukerd, so … hmm.”
5. Crazy, in a good way. “She’s so leukerd. I love it!”
6. Archaic door-locking system using bells and leukerds (see 1, above).
7. Obscure Australian cheese.
8. Medieval word for the moon, eg: “The man in the leukerd began to leukerd, but I felt a bit leukerd when the leukerd flew …”
9. A puddle.
10. To spend all day waiting for the sun to appear from behind a cloud.
