Dutch word of the year - 2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaffelen
In April 2008, the term received wide media attention in the Netherlands and Belgium,[3] when a Dutch student committed the act on the Taj Mahal and uploaded the video to YouTube. The student was suspended for this action.[4]
In response, the BNN TV program Spuiten en Slikken invited viewers to make their own videos of other objects being swaffeled. They also called for a BNN Nationale Swaffeldag (BNN National Swaffel Day) to be declared.[5] The Royal Palace of Amsterdam and the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht were among the objects swaffeled in the submissions.
Swaffelen received further attention when Australian folk singer Iain Campbell Smith aka Fred Smith, on his return to Australia from Afghanistan[when?] released an album entitled "Dust of Uruzgan", consisting of songs responding to the war in Afghanistan, especially his comedic song Niet Swaffelen op de Dixi about Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan.[citation needed]
In 2015 a firefighter in Enkhuizen was fired for swaffeling a colleague.[6]
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