Lächerlich: (adj.) ridiculous. Coming from 'lachen,' which is the verb 'to laugh' but also very much in the vein of 'lächeln' which is 'to smile.' A synonym in English would be 'laughable.'
I like the word because it sounds - leckerlick - a little like how it means. Somehow the repeated l's call to mind a peal of laughter for me. Maybe it's that the alliteration rolls so much that it knocks flat the people who would try to stand on the word and speak it with a straight face.
In any language, it's a great word for the jesters and clowns among us...
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