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Mira

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7. Well --- any of yours ---

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 4, 2016, 08:07 PM

Feb 2016

though I know them and understand them --- are in my own personal vocabulary.
Backpfeifengesicht is humorous and used by those that want to express disapproval without being crass.

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