A Dutch dictionary has discovered the downside of letting online users vote for their ‘word of the year’, after they overwhelmingly opted for a word that means ‘to swing your penis’.
‘Swaffelen’ – which, specifically, means to swing the penis so that it bumps into another object or person – got 57% of the vote in the poll conducted by Van Dale publishers, after a popular blog suggested readers vote for it (Google translation).
The word, which is thought to have originated over a decade ago, gained notoriety earlier in the year when a Dutch student got in trouble after he swaffelde the Taj Mahal (right), and then put the video of his swaffelen online (NSFW, obvs). There are now a disturbing number of swaffel-related videos on YouTube
It seems swinging things was a particularly popular activity in the Netherlands this year, as the second-placed word was ‘wiien’ – meaning to play the Nintendo Wii.
UPDATE: We have been informed in the comments that our command of Dutch verb forms is less than perfect. The post has now been corrected. To be fair to us, imagine if you tried to work out English grammar just by reading comments on YouTube.
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