Poppypotengooksy

I have this German friend and there were always words that he would say in German that he could not find a proper translation for. My favorite of which being "liebestrunken," the closest translation he could find was love stoned. So I wondered what English words were hard to translate.

The ten [British] English words that were voted hardest to translate:

1. plenipotentiary [when has anyone ever needed to explain this word!?]
2. gobbledegook
3. serendipity
4. poppycock
5. googly [never heard it used like that]
6. spam [kinda lame...]
7. whimsy
8. bumf [British slang]
9. chuffed
10. kitsch

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