Words, words, words

Do you fucha (use company time/resources for your own purposes)? Ever gone out with a Zechpreller (someone who leaves a restaurant without paying)? Everyone knows about the Eskimos having, like, a gazillion words for snow - but I've always been fascinated by foreign words that have no English equivalent. One of my favorite German words is Gemütlichkeit, which sort of combines coziness, friendliness, and a sense of being at home all in one word. The Independent has just profiled a new book that investigates these words from across cultures, and there are some crazy terms out there. Some are really useful - things I wish we had a word for - and some are just bizarre. Some of my favorites:

MAMIHLAPINATAPEI Fuengian language, Chile
A shared look of longing between parties who are both interested yet neither is willing to make the first move.

YUYIN Chinese
The remnants of sound that stay in the ears of the hearer

DESUS Indonesia
The quiet, smooth sound of somebody farting but not very loudly.

GRILAGEM Brazilian Portuguese
The practice of putting a live cricket into a box of newly faked documents, until the insect's excrement makes the paper look convincingly old.