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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Last of the V8s
on 07/05/2019, 21:43:59 UTC
Is there a Dutch word for 'fuckery'?

A somewhat old-fashioned one: verlakkerij. Translates roughly as deceit, betrayal, getting led to a trap.

You'll love the etymology though: verlakken was the practice of painting silver coins with shellac to make them appear like gold.
I do love it. 'To take a shellacking' is nowadays very popular on the street here: 'Barcelona took a shellacking today, losing 4-0 to Liverpool in the semi-final'. A drubbing, sound beating. Seems to have lost the manipulative sense of fuckery and verlakkerij in the vernacular, although it remains in that historical sense.