{"id":19624,"date":"2020-08-04T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19624"},"modified":"2020-08-04T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:02:19","slug":"grassduning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19624","title":{"rendered":"Grassduning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Dutch word I learnt yesterday was <strong>grasduinen<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0263r\u0251s\u02ccd\u0153y\u032f.n\u0259(n)], which means to do something with relish, to enjoy working (on something), to enjoy searching (through, in), to delve (into something), to dabble or to browse (the internet) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/grasduinen\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grasduinen<\/strong> comes from <strong>grasduin<\/strong> (grassy dune) from and <strong>gras<\/strong> (grass) and <strong>duin<\/strong> (dune). So it literally means &#8220;to grassdune&#8221;, and grassy dunes were historically considered a delightful place, apparently. It is in fact a contraction of the phrase <strong>in grasduinen gaan<\/strong> (to go in the grassy dunes).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymologiebank.nl\/trefwoord\/grasduinen\">More about this expression<\/a> (in Dutch).<\/p>\n<p>Words with similar meanings to <strong>grasduinen<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>snuffelen<\/strong> = to snuffle, to sniff (around),  to poke around, to search for something haphazardly [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/snuffelen\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>rondsnuffelen<\/strong> = to sniff, snoop, poke around [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/dutch-english\/rondsnuffelen\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>neuzen<\/strong> = to browse, peruse, snoop, peek, peep [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/neuzen\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>rondneuzen<\/strong> = to poke, snoop nose around, to look for something special [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/dutch-english\/rondneuzen\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are there interesting words for browsing, snooping, sniffing around, etc in other languages?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/johanwieland\/3262481539\/in\/photolist-rDXDWB-2iGdXcc-5W1Ycb-6TdcJt-5WRNq2-djdU3z-dmcGW6-dVJ9pP-2iFZ9MD-4Y8VDk-5Wd8eY-4Wr7UU-eo7N6x-aqEV5H-ebk2jL-aqES5r-aaoEPY-rDXE1V-rFQfZP-rYdohX-rFHusA-rFGd4y-rYdo8Z-rFGdrs-rFQfPi-rFHu4j-rYhGnR-r2hstN-rFGds9-rFHu7W-r2uecx-rVZnYd-rYabqN-vpiso-6nbxzF-rYhGvg-rFGdyw-aqHzo1-rYabJd-rYdnQe-r2hsx5-rDXDw8-r2uera-rVZnXb-rDXDp4-rFHugU-5Yi56H-2hypWhk-2ieXqbE-2ieXpZ2\" title=\"Duinen bij Hargen\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3345\/3262481539_c37003cf8d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Duinen bij Hargen\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Dutch word I learnt yesterday was grasduinen [\u02c8\u0263r\u0251s\u02ccd\u0153y\u032f.n\u0259(n)], which means to do something with relish, to enjoy working (on something), to enjoy searching (through, in), to delve (into something), to dabble or to browse (the internet) [source]. Grasduinen comes from grasduin (grassy dune) from and gras (grass) and duin (dune). So it literally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19624"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19633,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19624\/revisions\/19633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}