Please send your reversals of fortune to reversaloffortune at gmail.com addthis_pub = 'obamaramanights'; var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3217973-3"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); Tumblr (3.0; @reversaloffortune)http://reversaloffortune.tumblr.com/<p>Overgeven</p> <p><b>1. to vomit, to throw up, to be sick </b><a><img alt="Iconspeaker_3" width="15" height="15"/></a> <br/>[verb]<br/>[<u>o</u>-ver-ge-ven, gaf <u>o</u>-ver, <u>o</u>-ver-ge-ge-ven]</p> <p>When the food you’ve eaten tries to leave your body via your mouth, you can use the word “overgeven” (after having wiped your mouth with a tissue of course ;-) ).</p> <p>Synonymous to “overgeven” is “braken”, or the more informal “kotsen”, see the <i>Related words</i>.</p> <p><img alt="misselijk" src="http://dwotd.web-log.nl/dutch_word_of_the_day/images/2009/04/18/misselijk.jpg" width="150" align="middle" height="211"/></p> <p><b>Examples:</b><br/><i>- “Ik ben misselijk, ik denk dat ik moet overgeven…” </i><br/>(“I’m (feeling) nauseous…I think I’m going to be sick…”)</p> <p><i>- “Als je overgeeft, is de kater daarna minder erg.”</i> <br/>(“If you throw up, the hangover is less severe afterwards.”)</p> <p><b>Expressions:</b><br/>- “Over je <a>nek</a> gaan”: to vomit, to be sick. Lit.: to go over one’s neck.</p> <p><b>Related words:</b><br/>- Braken: to vomit, to throw up, to be sick [verb] [braakte, gebraakt].<br/>- Kotsen: to puke [verb] [kotste, gekotst].<br/>- Misselijk: sick, nauseous [adjective].</p> <p>Taken from <a title="Dutch Word of the Day" target="_blank" href="http://dwotd.web-log.nl/dutch_word_of_the_day/2009/04/598-overgeven.html">Dutch Word of the Day</a></p>http://reversaloffortune.tumblr.com/post/254670851http://reversaloffortune.tumblr.com/post/254670851Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:34:04 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7774438&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" 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