the ragbag: today in intriguing german loanwords:
fisselig • (adj.) flustered to the point of incompetence
despite how cool i seem to almost everyone that ever has met me (especially those who are superior judges of character), i can—from time to time, especially when nagged by a supervisor—lose my composure. and on those occasions, i don’t just show my nervousness, i completely break down to the most feral, least competent, slathering cretin that ever existed. it is on these occasions which i could accurately be described by the germans as “fisseliged.”
