That's the beauty of German compound-nouns. They say exactly what you're thinking. Just this. Who or what is a Hottentot potentate? :-|
"Rober Angel once said his favorite among interminable words was {this word}, which, in spite of its astonishing length uses only seven letters of the alphabet."--from Willard Espy's "Words at Play"
That's the beauty of German compound-nouns. They say exactly what you're thinking.
Just this. Who or what is a Hottentot potentate? :-|
"Rober Angel once said his favorite among interminable words was {this word}, which, in spite of its astonishing length uses only seven letters of the alphabet."
--from Willard Espy's "Words at Play"