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.
One thing you might have noticed travelling through Europe is that you’ll acquire a whole load of change in no time, thanks to those annoying, useless one, two, and five cent coins. So when a Belgian tells you he’s walking around with tons of mitraille, it doesn’t mean he’s carrying around some weird wartime memorabilia: he probably just bought a pack of cigarettes.
Example sentence: I hate having all that mitraille in my pockets. / J’en ai marre de toute la mitraille dans mes poches.
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".![]()
One thing you might have noticed travelling through Europe is that you’ll acquire a whole load of change in no time, thanks to those annoying, useless one, two, and five cent coins. So when a Belgian tells you he’s walking around with tons of mitraille, it doesn’t mean he’s carrying around some weird wartime memorabilia: he probably just bought a pack of cigarettes.
Example sentence: I hate having all that mitraille in my pockets. / J’en ai marre de toute la mitraille dans mes poches.
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".
