We guess that naming a wine after the milk that nurtured the baby Jesus is praise indeed. Translated from German, the name means ”Beloved Lady’s Milk” and refers to the Virgin Mary. Liebfraumilch is a semi-sweet white German wine that dates back to the mid 1700s.

While we're on the subject of breasts, this German wine appears to be a rather saucy reference to the teat of the Virgin Mary.

It may seem crude to name such a sensuous part of the body after a viral growth, but, hey, whatever makes sense to Germans.Īnd it's not the only term for a body part that sounds a little grim. Brustwarze literally translates as “breast wart”, and yes, it means nipple. The German language doesn’t mess around when it comes to body parts. Sometimes the meanings are obvious, while others are a little harder to grasp. That's because, rather than inventing new words, Germans are big fans of creating compound words out of existing ones.Ī simple example of this is the German for compound word Wortzusammensetzung (word-together-setting). It may be a tricky language to master, but one of the great things about German is that you don't actually need a particularly large vocabulary.

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