Pseudo-anglicism

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Pseudo-anglicisms are words in languages other than English which were borrowed from English but are used in a way native English speakers would not readily recognize or understand. Pseudo-anglicisms often take the form of compound words, combining elements of multiple English words to create a new word that appears to be English but is unrecognisable to a native speaker of English. It is also common for a genuine English word to be used to mean something completely different from its original meaning.

Pseudo-anglicisms are related to false friends or false cognates. Many speakers of a language which employs pseudo-anglicisms believe that the relevant words are genuine anglicisms and can be used in English, which may cause misunderstandings.

When many English words are incorporated into many languages, language enthusiasts and purists often look down on this phenomenon, terming it (depending on the importing language) Denglisch, Franglais or similar neologisms.

Video Pseudo-anglicism

In various languages

Multiple languages

Air-Condition (German, Greek, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish) - air conditioning
Apart (Japanese ????, Korean ???) - apartment
Autostop (or in some languages stop) (Bulgarian, Czech, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish) - hitchhiking
Basket (Arabic, Danish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Greek, Persian, Serbo-Croatian (one-hoop variant), Spanish, Swedish, Turkish) - basketball
Baskets (French, Romanian) - sneakers
Beamer (Dutch, German, Romanian) - (digital) video projector
Beefsteak (French bifteck, Spanish bistec, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish biftek) - from beefsteak, but steak in general
Beauty farm (Dutch, German Beauty-Farm and Beautyfarm, Italian) - spa
Black Music (French, German) - urban music
Body (Hungarian, Turkish) - bodybuilding
Body (for dancing) (German, Finnish, French, Italian, Romanian) - leotard
Body (for infants) (Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian bodi, Spanish, Turkish badi) - infant bodysuit
Body (Estonian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish) - bodysuit
Box (for toddlers) (Dutch, Italian) - playpen
Box (for vehicles) (French, Italian) - garage
Box (in motorsports) (German, Italian, Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) - place on a race track where pit stops are conducted
Break (French, Romanian brec) - station wagon (American English) or estate car (British English) - cf. shooting-brake
Camera (Greek, Vietnamese, Russian, Polish kamera) - camcorder
Camping (Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish) - campsite
Camping-car (French, Japanese ????????) - campervan or "recreational vehicle"
Car (French, Swiss German) - coach, tour bus or inter-city bus
Catch (French; now considered old-fashioned in German and Italian) - professional wrestling
Classic music (Japanese ???????, Korean ??? ??, Turkish klasik müzik) - classical music
Clip (most languages) - short film
Closet (Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Turkish klozet) - watercloset
Coffee (some Arabic dialects) - café
Cornflakes (Arabic, Greek, Turkish) - any breakfast cereal
Cunning (Japanese ?????, Korean ??) - cheating
Dancing (Belgian Dutch, Italian, Polish) - dance hall or dancing-house or nightclub
Discount (Diskont) (German, Polish dyskont, Serbo-Croatian) - a store
Dress (Estonian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish dres) - athletic garments
Evergreen (Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Serbian variety of Serbo-Croatian, Swedish) - an enduringly popular song
Feeling (Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish) - personal chemistry, common bond
Finish (Belarusian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian) - finish line
Fitness (Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Turkish) - fitness training as a kind of gymnastics
Flipper (Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish) - pinball machine
Footing (French, Italian, Spanish) - jogging
Fotoshooting (Danish, German, Romanian) - photo session, photo shoot
Fotoshop (Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Turkish) - manipulated photo (from the name of Adobe Photoshop)
Frac (French, Italian, Serbian variety of Serbo-Croatian), from "frock coat" - evening tailcoat
Fuel (various languages) - Diesel fuel
Full (French, Hungarian, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Polish) - full house (in poker)
Full (Spanish, Slovenian) - 'very'
Goalman (Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian) - Goalkeeper
Handphone (Indonesian, Korean ???) - mobile phone (compare German Handy)
Happy end (Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, French, German Happyend and Happy End, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese ???????, Korean ????, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian hepiend) - happy ending
Homepage (Danish, German, Japanese ??????, Korean ????, H.P.) - website
Hometrainer (Dutch, German, Portuguese) - exercise bicycle or other low-level consumer fitness machine
IC (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) - interchange
Jolly (Italian, Romanian) - joker or wild card
Killer (Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian, German, Italian, Polish, Russian) - hitman, contract killer
K-Way (French [kawe], Italian) - windbreaker
Lifting (Brazilian Portuguese, French, Swiss German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Turkish, Russian) - facelift
Limousine or limousine bus (Japanese ??????, Korean ??? ??) - airport shuttle
Limousine (some Arabic dialects) - taxi
Living (European Portuguese, Belgian Dutch, Japanese ????, Romanian, Argentinian Spanish) - living room or set of living room furniture
Looping (French, German) - vertical loop in a roller coaster
Luna park (Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Serbian variety of Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Russian) - amusement park (derived from the name of an amusement park in New York)
Mail (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese ???, Norwegian, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish mejl, Turkish, Russian) - email
Marketing (Arabic, Danish, German, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) - advertising
Mobbing (Danish, German, Norwegian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish) - bullying
Montgomery (Greek, Italian) - duffle coat
MV (Chinese, Korean) - music video
Oldtimer (Dutch, German, Hungarian) - classic car
Open space (French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian) - open plan office
Panty or panti (Dutch, Spanish) - pantyhose
Parking (Arabic, Belgian Dutch, French, Swiss German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian ???????, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) - parking lot / car park
Peeling (French, Romanian, German, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish) - facial or body scrub
Pickup (Dutch, Greek) - turntable
PK (Chinese) - play-kill (this term usually refers to a lighthearted competition/conflict and originates from arcade games)
Playback (Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish) - lip-sync(ing), miming (a song)
Poker (French, Hungarian, Italian ['p?ker], Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Russian) - either the game or straight flush
Pressing (Swiss German, Italian, Polish, Russian) - forcing (in sport)
Pullman (Greek, Italian) - motor coach, tour or inter-city bus, not a railway vehicle
Puzzle (Arabic, Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish pussel, Spanish puzle, Turkish) - jigsaw puzzle (rather than puzzle in general)
Reality (Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) - reality show
Recordman (French, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Russian recordsman, Turkish) - record holder in sports*
Roastbeef (sometimes dropping the 't') (Danish, German, Portuguese, Serbian variety of Serbo-Croatian, Spanish rosbif) - cut of beef located roughly at the short loin (US) or sirloin (UK)
Rolling stone - vagrant (from the proverb A rolling stone gathers no moss)
Scotch (French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian) - clear adhesive tape of any brand
Service (Japanese ????, Korean ???, Taiwanese sa-bi-su) - free, complimentary, from 'self service'
Sharp pencil (Japanese ????????, Korean ????) - mechanical pencil
Sig (Italian) - sigh (in cartoons)
Skilift (Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian, German, Italian) - platter lift
Slip (Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Turkish) - briefs
Smoking (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian smoching, Russian ???????, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish esmoquin, Swedish, Turkish) - dinner jacket or tuxedo, rather than a smoking jacket in the Edwardian sense
Speaker (Danish, Italian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish) - announcer, news anchor; also French feminine speakerine
String (Dutch, French, German, Greek, Polish, Russian ???????, Swedish, Turkish) - G-string
Strip (Dutch, Serbo-Croatian) - comics, comic book or comic strip
Telefilm (Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian, Italian) - filmed TV series
Tennis (French, Portuguese tênis, Spanish tenis,) - both the sport and tennis shoes, trainers, and sneakers
Toast (Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian, Danish, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian [t?st], Korean "???", Polish, Swedish, Turkish, Russian) - toasted sandwich
Top (for women) (most languages) - sports bra
Topfit (Dutch, German) - perfectly physically fit
Training (Hebrew ????????, Hungarian, Romanian, Korean "???") - tracksuit
Tramway (French, Russian ???????, Serbo-Croatian tramvaj) - tram
Trench (French, Italian, Russian) - trench coat
Tuning (Danish, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian) - car tuning
Videoclip (or in some languages clip) (Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian ?????????, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish) - music video
Volley (Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese vôlei, Danish, French [v?le], Greek, Italian ['v?llei], Japanese ???) - volleyball
Wellness (Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian, German, Hungarian) - a holistic sense of mental and physical well-being; feeling well by expensive means, especially in a chic hotel near a spa
Zapping (Danish zappe, French, German zappen (verb), Greek, Italian ['dzappi??], Dutch zappen, Swedish zappa) - (TV) channel-surfing, channel-hopping

Belarusian

Box (????, boks) - boxing
Break (?????, brejk) - breakdance
Camping (???????, kiemping) - camping site
Cross (????, kros) - cross-country race
File (????, fajl) - punched pocket
Player (?????, plejer) - portable media player
Shop tour (???-???, ?op-tur) - an organized tour to a foreign country for shopping.

Chinese

ABC - American-born Chinese, also CBC = Canadian-born Chinese, BBC = British-born Chinese, etc.
BB call - pager
BBS - web forum, as opposed to an actual bulletin board system
DM - flyer, brochure, junk mail (from "direct mail")
KTV - a karaoke establishment with private rooms. Called karaoke box in Japan.
MIT - Made in Taiwan
VC - Vitamin C

Czech

Box - boxing (noun for the sport)
Czech POINT - Czech public administration contact point
Nightclub - meaning extended to brothel, erotic club
Rifle - (pronounced ree-fleh); denim or jeans (from the registered trademark Rifle Jeans)

Danish

Babylift - baby transport/carrycot
Bake-off - parbaking
Butterfly - a bow tie
Cottoncoat - trench coat
Cowboytoast - minced meat sandwich
Grillparty - a barbecue party
Large - being understanding and tolerant
Monkeyclass - economy class
Rocker - biker
Sixpence - a flat cap or cloth cap
Smoking - a dinner jacket
Speeder - an automobile pedal
Speedmarker - a felt-tip pen
Stationcar - a contraction of station wagon (US) and estate car (UK)
Strips - a cable tie
Timemanager - a calendar or notebook in which you write down appointments (from the registered trademark Time Manager)

Dutch

Agenda - diary (UK) or appointment book (US)
Airco - air conditioning
Beamer - a video projector
Boiler - a water heater and not a central heating boiler (ketel)
Box - a loudspeaker
Coffeeshop - a cannabis shop
Dumpstore - an army surplus store
Junk - junkie, a drug addict
(Koffie)pad - (coffee) pod
Loverboy - a pimp who grooms (often very young) women to fall in love with him, in order to force them into prostitution.
Mobile home - Belgian Dutch for a campervan
Occasion - bargain (especially a car sold at a favourable price), or even: second-hand car. Originally a French loanword with the meaning of "bargain" and pronounced as in French, it is now often pronounced as in English
Pocket - small book, usually paperback, that fits in a pocket
Sheets - transparencies or computer presentation slides
Shovel - a loader
Songtekst - lyrics
Sweater - sweatshirt
Touringcar - a motor coach; not a touring car, which is either an obsolete automobile body shape or a classification of racing car.

Finnish

College - sweater/jumper

French

Note: In Europe, '-ing' is usually pronounced [i?g].

Baby-foot (m, pronounced [ba.bi.fut]) - table football
Box (f) - internet access device, following the trend of brand naming initiated with Free Telecom's "Freebox", then imitated by others (Livebox, Neufbox...)
Brushing (m) - blow dry
Building (m) - skyscraper
Caddie (m, [kadi]) - shopping trolley, from a brand name
Dressing (m) - dressing room
Fashion - as an adjective rather than a noun
Forcing as in faire le forcing or faire du forcing - to pressure
Foot (m) - association football (in France, Haiti, and Francophone Africa); either American football or Canadian football (in Canada, where association football is called le soccer)
de grand standing - high class (of property), luxury (flat, apartment)
Jogging (m) - Tracksuit (jogging suit)
Night shop (m, Belgium) - late-opening grocery shop
Paper board (m) - flip chart
People - celebrities, also used as adjective (ex. "La presse people"), derived from the US celebrity magazine People
Planning (m) - schedule, to-do list
Pressing (m) - dry cleaning shop
Pull (m, pronounced [pyl])- pullover, sweater
Punching ball (m) - punching bag
Recordman/Recordwoman - record holder in sports
Relooking (m) - makeover (also: relooker - give a makeover to)
Rollers (m) - Roller skates
Rosbif - English person, especially a man, mildly derogatory (from roast beef)
Rugbyman - rugby player
Self (m) - self-service restaurant
Shampooing (m, pronounced /???.pw??/), also spelled shampoing - shampoo
Smoking (m) - dinner jacket
Star (f, even referring to a man) - a celebrity
Surf (m) - surfboard
Sweat (m, pronounced [swit] - sweater
Tennisman - tennis player
Top (adj.) - brilliant, great
Tramway (m) - tram
Warning(s) (m) - (car) hazard-lights
Zoning (Belgium) - industrial estate

German

Many of the following examples may be found in several words (Fun Sport), hyphenated (Fun-Sport), in one word (Funsport) or CamelCase (FunSport).

Basecap - baseball cap
Best Ager - a person over the age of 50 (German Wikipedia)
Body-Bag - a type of Messenger Bag. The bag which is slung across the midriff in English is called cross-body bag. In Germany, the term Body-Bag was for some time a registered trademark.
Box - box, but also loudspeaker
Casting-Show - talent search television series
Catchen - wrestling
Containern - Dumpster diving
Cutter - film editor or utility knife
Discounter - discount store
DJane - female disc jockey
Dressman - male model
Drive-in - drive-through
Ego-Shooter - first-person shooter (FPS)
(to do) Fitness - workout in a gym
Fitness-Studio or Fitnessstudio - gym
Fun-Sport - a sport primarily practised in leisure time and for fun without organized competitions or rules, especially when it is risky, extravagant, modern and suitable to express an independent young lifestyle, e.g. Free climbing, Snowboarding or Surfing
Handy - mobile phone, cell[ular] phone
Happy End or Happyend - a happy ending
Highboard - a table-high cupboard
Horrortrip - bad trip
Inboard-Kamera - onboard camera
Inliner - inline skates (shoes)
Kicker - table football ("foosball" in American English, a variation on the German word "Fußball" (football))
Leaderboard - provisional ranking; in English leader board is only used in professional golf
Leader(s)box - Platform or site, where the provisional leader(s) of a current event is displayed to the public; in English leader's box stands for a collection of important rules and statements of a Christian sect--e.g., the United Church of Christ
Lifting - taking the ski lift uphill. Common term in Kühtai region in Austria
Logical - riddle/puzzle to be solved by logical thought (German Wikipedia)
Longseller - long-term (best)seller (German Wikipedia)
Lowlight - opposite of "highlight" (used in business environment in management reporting)
Mailbox - voicebox
Musicbox/Musikbox - jukebox
No-Go - taboo, no-no
Pocketbook - paperback (derived from the German "Taschenbuch", "Tasche" = pocket, "Buch" = book)
Public Viewing - outdoor screening
Pullunder, often Pollunder or Polunder - sweater vest
Punker - a punk (dated: punker)
Shooting - photo or film shoot
Shootingstar - (successful) newcomer (sports, music, literature, business, politics...)
Slipper - lace-less shoes
Showmaster - show host
Sprayer - graffiti artist, tagger
Steadyseller - a book that sells consistently over a long term (variant of bestseller)
Tabletop - miniature wargame
Talkmaster - talk show host
Trainer - coach
Training - without any specification it means to workout in a gym, synonym to do Fitness or Training; with a (implicitly) given specification it means exercising under practicing conditions even if the results of this have consequences for a following competition, e.g. Qualifikationstraining means Qualifying Session or Balltraining means exercises with a ball
Trainings- - in compound terms such as Trainingsanzug, -hose, and -jacke for tracksuit, -trousers, and -top
Trampen; Tramper - hitchhiking; hitchhiker
Twen - a person in his or her twenties, or the time period of one's twenties
Vote - a poll

Greek

Barwoman - barmaid
Jean (????) - denim
Trafficator - indicator

Hebrew

Back-Axe (??-???) - rear axle
Chaser (?'????) - small shot glass
Coacher (?????'?) - practitioner of life-coaching, a coach. ("Coacher" is a valid, but rare, English variant)
Combinator (?????????) - a swindler/cheater/con-artist, but also less negatively just someone who's good at smooth talking and getting out of trouble, or finding quick-fix solutions to problems.
Front Back-Axe (????? ??-???) - front axle
Golf (????) - turtleneck sweater/jersey
Maniac (manyak ?????) - an undesirable person, akin to "asshole" or "son of a bitch" in English. (Probably derived from Arabic, where it has some negative sexual connotation)
Money time (???? ????) - crunch time (in sports)
Nylon (??????) - any form of flexible plastic
Patent (patent ????) - an improvisation/innovation
Presenter (???????) - celebrity endorser
Punch (?????) - a short joke, one-liner (not the punch line!)
Puncture (pancher ???'?) - any mishap causing a delay
Scouter (??????) - talent scout. ("Scouter" is a valid, but rare, English variant)
Selector (??????) - airport security screener, club bouncer
Snappling (snepling ???????) - abseiling
Talkback (tokbek ?????) - A comment on a blog or an internet news site
V (??) - check mark (?). Used in the expression "????? ??" ("to do a V") meaning "to check off, indicate as done".

Hungarian

Drill - three of a kind in poker.
Farmer - denim or jeans
Winchester - computer hard drive

Indonesian

Mini Market - Convenience store

Italian

Autogrill (Italian pronunciation: [auto'?ril]) - motorway snack bar (used for any brand, not only for Autogrill chain)
Baby killer, or babykiller - juvenile murderer
Bar - café (the English "bar" is called "pub" in Italy)
Beauty case or Beauty - vanity bag
Block-Notes or Bloc-notes (Italian pronunciation: [bl?k'n?tes]) - notebook
Body rental - temporary staffing firm
Box doccia - shower cubicle
Cargo - cargo-boat (or cargo aircraft)
Cotton fioc - Cotton swab
Charleston (instrument) - Hi-hat
Custom - custom motorcycle, but very often used to indicate cruisers instead.
Discount - discount store
Fiction - TV miniseries
Golf (diminutive: golfino) - sweater/jumper
Hostess - female flight attendant, stewardess
Job on call - sort of casual employment, whose intermittent working times are based, from day to day, on the needs of the employer (compare Zero hours contract in the United Kingdom)
Mister - football coach
Night - nightclub
Plum cake - loaf cake
Pullman - coach
Punching ball (m) - punching bag(1)
Sexy shop - sex shop
Social - social network, using the English adjective as a noun
Spot - (TV) advert
Stage (Italian pronunciation: [sta?] from French stage "internship", but also [steid?] via erroneous connection to the English stage) - internship
Talent - talent show
Ticket - cost associated to a service provided by the national health care system
Tight - morning suit
Trolley (Italian pronunciation: ['tr?llei]) - trolley case
Tutor or Safety tutor - traffic enforcement camera
Videobar - a cafe or bar focused on entertainment based on music videos
Water (Italian pronunciation: ['vater]) - shortened form for water closet
Writer - graffiti writer

Japanese

High touch (?????, haitatchi) - high five
Live (???, raibu) - any sort of performance-related live thing; e. g. a live band, live concert, live recording, etc.
Love hotel (?????, rabu hoteru) - a type of short-stay hotel
Lolicon (????, rorikon) - pedophile (adjective), portmanteau of "lolita" and "complex"
Mansion (?????, manshon) - a condominium apartment
New-half (??????, ny?h?fu) - a transgender or transsexual woman
OL or Office Lady (????????, ofisu red?) - a female office worker
Revenge (????, ribenji) - to try again in spite of previous failure
Salaryman (??????, sarar?man) - a white collar employee (salaried worker)
Style (????, sutairu) - a woman's figure (particularly if slim or skinny)
Note (???, n?to) - a notebook

Korean

Apart (??? apateu) - this word is used to mean not only individual suites, but "apartment building" or "apartment complex"
Fighting (??? hwaiting or ??? paiting) - a Korean cheer that can roughly be translated as "Victory!" but can also be used as a word of encouragement (a la "Courage!")
Note (?? noteu) - a notebook
Officetel (???? opiseutel) - this word is a portmanteau of "office" and "hotel" and means office and hotel combined
One room (?? wonlum) - a bachelor-style studio apartment
One shot (?? wonsyas) - a form of toast, roughly equivalent to "bottoms up". It challenges the drinker to finish his drink in one gulp
Skin scuba (????? seukinseukubeo) - scuba diving

Persian

Machine (?????/?????, mâ?in) - is used for Vehicle and Automobile beside general use for describing machines.
Traffic (??????/??????, trâfik) - traffic jam.

Polish

Boks - boxing
Deweloper - real estate developer
Dres - tracksuit; sometimes also chav(s) (short for dresiarz)

Portuguese

Except when the English pronunciation is obviously indicated by widely known spelling rules, such as "ee", "ay", "oo", "ou" and "a+consonant+e" standing for [i], [e?], [u], [a?], and [e?C] (this one only in Portugal; Brazilians will pronounce the vowels near-correctly but the consonants always in the way they would pronounce them in Portuguese), instead of the expected [ej], [aj], [ow], [ow], [aCi ~ aC?] (non-nasal consonant) and [??Ci ~ ?C?] (nasal), all Lusophone Latin Americans and Africans and most Portuguese and Macanese will invariably use spelling pronunciations for pseudo-anglicisms as those that know proper English pronunciation and spelling rules would naturally be expected to know that those words are not real English, so that soda and tuning come out as ['s?ð?] (roughly like "sawtha" or "soth-a") and ['t???] (roughly like "toonyeen'"), much as English-like filler (used mainly in Brazil, in the context of anime episodes not derived from the storyline of the manga from which they derive) and nylon would be ['file?] (roughly "feel-egh") and ['najlõ] (roughly "nye lon'") in non-affected pronunciations, though tupperware is rather similar to a native form ([t?p?'w??], [-'w??]).

Phonotactic and phonological rules of Portuguese or of certain Portuguese dialects, such as specific palatalization and vowel reduction patterns, also apply, so that while e.g. nice in São Paulo would become ['najs], a native English form, in Rio de Janeiro it would become ['najsi] (roughly "nicie") or [naj s?] ("nye, sss!"), as [s] at the end of a syllable in the local dialect is non-existent - the local pronunciation of the archiphoneme /coda sibilant/ is palatalized [?], the hushing second consonant in Japanese sushi. Brazilians, and some Africans and rural Portuguese with archaic dialects resembling Brazilian Portuguese, are known to insert an epenthetic [i] after virtually every final closed syllable to break them into two different open syllables, so that hippie and hip (as [i]star and estar/está, similar to Spanish) would sound wholly or nearly homophonous as ['?ipi], in the same way flirt became flerte (['fle?t?i], ['fl??t(?)] in Portugal) with time. Words that are not slang anymore tend to be adapted to Portuguese orthography.

Agroboy (Brazil) - a non-urban Brazilian playboy or yuppie, generally with its wealth earned by agricultural businesses
Beauty case - vanity case
Box - a stall containing a shower or a toilet, as in a public restroom
Coffeeshop (a loanword from Dutch) - a store selling cannabis
Cooper - to jog
Fashion (Brazil) - as an adjective rather than a noun, slang for a cool fashion style. Used mainly in relation to female fashion styles (or that of males in a jocose way). Example: Ela está muito fashion agora! meaning "she is so cool now [with this makeover]!"
Funk - a musical genre from Rio de Janeiro, local spin-off from Miami bass, completely unrelated to American funk music
Grill (Brazil) - steak house. Most often the native name churrascaria is used
Hipster (Brazil) - slang for either the correct English usage (scenesters of underground and indie music scenes) or a contemporary hippie-derived subculture there prevalent
Hockey - icehockey (other varieties of hockey are virtually unknown)
Ice Tea - generic trademark for iced tea, informally more common than the direct translation chá gelado
Night (Brazil) - nightlife, particularly dating
Novo look - a makeover (hair, clothing, makeup, etc.)
Open House - housewarming party
Outdoor - billboard, using the English adjective as a noun
Playboy (Brazil) - while in first it had the same usage as in English, from the 1990s to the 2010s it changed its meaning to a local version of yuppie. Stereotypes of the Brazilian playboys include being classist, womanizer and sexist, at least way more than their yuppie counterparts from more developed nations, which in turn is result of social anxieties of the poor and the lower middle class against the upper middle and upper classes, or being great seekers of social status and influence. They also, contrary to yuppies, do not fashionize intellectuality, and can or can not be socially liberal (social divisions between liberals and conservatives, specially in the upper classes, makes much less sense in Brazil)
Shopping - shopping mall or shopping centre using the English gerund as a noun
Show - concert, particularly a pop music concert ("concerto" is used mainly for classical music, nevertheless it is the standard usage in European Portuguese for all kinds of concert and also used in Brazilian Portuguese by language purists)
Soda - short for soda limonada, lime-flavored soft drink (refrigerante sabor limão, lime and lemon are regarded as two variants of the same fruit in Brazil; not lime-lemon, ironically known in Brazil by the literal translation lima-limão) rather than soft drink in general; soda is also a native Portuguese word that conveys the chemical sense of soda (compounds that contain sodium), as well as a saltwort or a kelp
Style (Brazil) - as an adjective rather than a noun, slang for someone whose fashion, or for the said fashion in itself, is deemed as innovative, cool or unique. Unlike fashion, this slang is regarded as adequate for males (actually, this term is a stereotypical part of the vocabulary of urban worker class males lacking in education and refinement). Example: Deborah e Giovanni ficam tão style de calças skinny, óculos escuros e franja! (meaning "Deborah and Giovanni got so cool wearing skinny jeans and dark glasses, and cutting the hair in bangs!")
Top (Brazil) - using the English noun as an adjective, means genius, greatest, awesome. Another example of slang stereotypically associated with stigmatized speech registers of those of lower social standing. Probably itself a loanword from French
Video game (['vid?o '?ejmi]; ['vid?u '??jmi] in less cultivated registers) (Brazil) - also written vídeo-game, game console, although the term "console" is also used, the video games themselves are simply called "games", "jogos" (the standard translation for "game") or less ambiguously "jogos de videogame" (console games)

Romanian

Blugi - jeans, denim fabric (whether blue or not)
Tenisman - tennis player (feminine is tenisman?)

Russian

Break (?????, breyk) - breakdance
Business lunch (??????-????, biznes-lanch) - table d'hôte
Clipmaker (??????????, klipmeyker) - music video director
Creative (???????, kreativ) - inventiveness, creativity, the results of creative work
Cross (?????, kross) - cross-country race
Face control (????????????, feyskontrol') - checking whether a person looks appropriate (a common practice at Russian night clubs)
File (????, fayl) - punched pocket
Folk history (????-???????, folk-khistori) - a widespread type of pseudoscientific historical writing, often politically engaged, sensationalistic, or negationist in nature; in more broad terms, pseudohistory
Killer (??????, killer) - assassin, contract killer
Metallist (?????????, metallist) - fan of heavy metal subculture
Pampers (???????, pampers) - diaper of any brand
Parking (???????, parking) - parking lot
Player (?????, pleyer) - portable media player
Rocker (?????, roker) - member of a biker gang
Puzzle (????, pazl) - jigsaw
Safing (???????, seyfing) - providing safe deposit boxes
Shop tour (???-???, shop-tur) - an organized tour to a foreign country for shopping
Showman (??????, shoumen) - entertainer, host of an entertainment-oriented show (TV or otherwise)
Smoking (???????, smoking) - dinner jacket
Start (?????, start) - starting line, launch pad
Strings (???????, stringi) - thong
Xerox (???????, kseroks) - copier of any brand

Serbo-Croatian

Basket (Basket / ??????) - 2 v 2 or 3 v 3 basketball
Body (Bodi / ????) - Bodice
Drugstore (Dragstor / ????????) - a corner store that is open in evenings or overnight. They do not offer pharmacy services.
Full - slang term meaning 'very'
Goalman (Golman / ??????) - Goalkeeper, Goalie
Insert (Insert / ??????) - Movie clip
Luster (Luster / ??????) - Chandelier
Recorder (Rekorder / ????????) - record holder (in sports)
Site (Sajt / ????) - Website
Spot (Spot / ????) - Music video

Slovak

Nightclub - brothel/erotic club

Slovenian

Dbest [d?'b?st] - slang term meaning 'cool'
Full [ful] - slang term meaning 'very'

Spanish

Baby (Mexico) - baby shower
Blue (Argentina) - grey market
Body - bodice
Casting - a screen test
Estárter - choke valve
Friki or friqui (from freaky) - fanboy, geek
Heavy - awesome, excellent, great, etc., in slang; also hard, strong, excessive. In the first sense, this word is used in the same way English speakers use the slang term "cool" (which is also used in Spanish). It also refers to the heavy metal subculture. Most likely from British slang word "Heavy" meaning "Cool".
Inbox - email, chat or messenger message.
KOM (Kick Off Meeting) - planning meeting, Project launch meeting.
Nuevo look - a makeover (hair, clothing, makeup etc.)
Planning - plan, program
Play, Hipermegaplay (in Colombia) - Used in the same way American English speakers would use the slang term "Cool".
Puenting (from puente "bridge", with English -ing added) - a sport that involves jumping from a bridge similar to bungee jumping, but the cord is non-elastic and the jump ends in a pendulum-like movement
Rolling stone - a celebrity
Round Point (in Colombian Spanish) - roundabout (from French rond-point)
Shopping - refers to both a shopping mall and to the activity of browsing available goods or services, whether products are actually purchased or not
Skate - skateboard
Smoking - a tuxedo
Snow - in some countries and regions, snowboarding. A snowboard is called a tabla de snow
Stalker - a hitman
Web - refers to both a website and to the Internet itself

Swedish

After work - a meeting for drinks after the workday is finished
Babysitter - seat made for infants
Backslick - slick-back hairdo
Brat - pejorative for a spoilt youth or young adult from the upper class who wears backslick and expensive clothes and exhibits extravagant behavior
Clicks - bicycle cleats
Freestyle - personal stereo; originally a marketing term
Homestyling - Home staging, making a home look better when presenting for sale, when done by professionals. Homestyling is used in the UK when helping residents fix their home for their own well-being.
Pocketbok or just Pocket - paperback book (mix of English and Swedish spelling)
Relax - spa
Smoking - a dinner jacket/tuxedo.

Thai

Air (????) - Air conditioner.
Check-bill (??????? Ch?kh bil) - A combination of the US English "check" and the British English "bill" (adapted to Thai pronunciation), meaning the bill presented in a restaurant or bar.
Freshy (??????? Ferch ch??) - A college fresher or freshman.
Goal (??? Kol) - means "goal keeper". "No goal" means to play football(soccer) without goal keepers.
Hi-so (???? ??so) - High Society describing someone who insists on designer labels.
Inter (???????? Xintexr?) - means "international". "I am so inter" means the person has been abroad and is interested in foreign, mostly Western things.
In-trend (????????? Xin the rnd?) - Trendy. The word "trend" is usually pronounced in Thai accent as "tren" because final consonants are not as pronounced in Thai as in English.
Too fast to sleep - Too early to sleep. The Thai word /r?w/ (???? r?w) means either fast or early, depending on context.
Ver or Over (????? Wexr? or ??????? Xowexr?) - Exaggerated or overstated.

Turkish

Flört (flirt) - dating
Fragman (fragment) - trailer
Klasik Müzik (classic music) - classical music
Klozet (closet) - public toilet or flush toilet
Spiker (speaker) - media commentators, and news presenters
Stoper (stopper) - in association football: Center-back
Trafik (traffic) - can mean "traffic jam" based on the context
Tramvay (tramway) - tram or streetcar
Web (web) - Internet (also used as "?nternet")
Web Sayfas? (web page) - Website

Vietnamese

Coca (cô ca) - Coca-Cola
MC (em xi) - TV host, talk show host, television presenter; originating from hip-hop slang
Film (phim) - both movies and soap opera
Photo (phô tô) - photocopy
Sex (sét) - wearing revealing clothes that make the wearer appear lustful
Style (xì tin) - appearing teenage, active, playful and modern
Vest (vét) - Western suit in clothing

Yiddish

cherry lights (????? ???? [t??r? l??ts]) - red headlights
payday (??????? [p??d??]) - salary/payment

Maps Pseudo-anglicism

References

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Sources

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