Favourite foreign onomatopoeia - 13

chin chin - (Italian/French/Spanish) the sound of glasses clinking together, i.e. 'cheers!'

(Amusingly, though, 'chin chin' means something rather different in Japan.)

Muddy pastures

Neither the grand Oxford English Dictionary nor the muddy pastures of UrbanDictionary.com yielded up an entry for 'deviltons'.

- Bruce Whiteman, on the selected essays of Michael Hofmann

The first rule of Tautology Club

is...

Ever wondered

what the Welsh national anthem means?

Well, now you know.

Pineapples

according to the Urban Dictionary...

Banter.

Keystroke twins - 17 / Squaddie banter VI

Army
crow*

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* this one, I confess, may have slightly more resonance(s) for those who are actually in the Army... All readers, though, may delight in the peculiarly military quality of the word's etymology and/or definition, as provided by UrbanDictionary.com!