The gigil (pronounced ghee-gill) It is an untranslated word and was recently added to the English Oxford Dictionary. It is derived by the tagalog of the Philippines and is a ‘feeling so intensethat creates us the irresistible desire to embrace tightly with our hands, to tighten our teeth and to pinch or tighten anyone or whatever we consider so adorable“
People who speak English cover vocabulary gaps “borrowing the untranslated word from another language” When they do it quite often, The borrowing word ‘becomes part of their vocabulary“He says the dictionary.
See also:
- Viral the comment at a convention of an apartment building in Serres – “National Play, I’m not coming!”
- In Tokyo … they welcomed the new year with the demanding custom “Misogi”
