Sure, you can order a pommes-frites with curry ketchup and pronounce Dries Van Noten's name without a hitch. But can you really get by in Belgium? Our Slang Dictionary will make sure of it.
Oaf, doofus, nitwit, dork, idiot, chump, blockhead, dumbbell, goon, birdbrain, simpleton, dunce: the English language seems inexhaustible when it comes to deriding the dim-witted. But, when you have a Belgian friend with the elegance and intellect of a church bell, all you need to say is: “Quelle cloche!”
Example sentence:
What a cloche! He keeps stumbling over his own feet. / Quelle cloche! Il n’arrête pas de trébucher sur ses propres pieds.
We'll be rolling out more Belgian slang throughout the summer! Submit your own words to WEBSTORE@OPENINGCEREMONY.US with the subject line "Belgian Slang".![]()
Oaf, doofus, nitwit, dork, idiot, chump, blockhead, dumbbell, goon, birdbrain, simpleton, dunce: the English language seems inexhaustible when it comes to deriding the dim-witted. But, when you have a Belgian friend with the elegance and intellect of a church bell, all you need to say is: “Quelle cloche!”
Example sentence:
What a cloche! He keeps stumbling over his own feet. / Quelle cloche! Il n’arrête pas de trébucher sur ses propres pieds.
We'll be rolling out more Belgian slang throughout the summer! Submit your own words to WEBSTORE@OPENINGCEREMONY.US with the subject line "Belgian Slang".
