English is a rich and wonderful language - but sometimes it's just not good enough. For example, have you ever searched around in vain for a word to describe someone who gets excited by eating garlic? Or wondered why there isn't a nice pithy term for a person who is only attractive if they're standing quite far away?
Other languages do have such words. Some examples:
Hira Hira - Japanese: the feeling you get when you walk into a dark and decrepit old house in the middle of the night.
Dona - Chile: to take lice from a person's head and squash between one's teeth.
Baffona - Italian: an attractive moustachioed woman.
Poronkusema - Finnish: the distance equal to how far a reindeer can travel without a comfort break.
Weird And Wonderful Foreign Phrases.
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a person only attractive from far away in english is called a "miler"
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