Toujours Tingo

£10.99

Drawing on the collective wisdom of over three-hundred languages, “Toujours Tingo” has discovered all kinds of actions and objects, tastes and noises that English simply doesn’t have the vocabulary for.

We’ve all met a ‘layogenic’ (Tagalog for a person who is only good-looking from a distance), a ‘jayus’ (Indonesian for someone who tells a joke so unfunny that you can’t help laughiong) and a ‘mouton enrage’ (French for someone usually calm who loses their temper: literally meaning a maddened sheep).

“Toujours Tingo” offers an eccentric guide to life through thousands of surprising new words and facts that Adma Jacot de Boinod has gathered from all around the world. Whether you are ‘physiggoomai’ (Ancient Greek for excited by eating garlic) or knedlikovy (Czech way of being rather partial to dumplings), there are riches here to charm and amuse everyone.