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Verb

English: admire

German: bewundern, respektieren, mögen

Spanish: admirar

Source: KGT (216 KE, 246 EK)

KLCP Level: 3

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Noun

English: tooth

German: Zahn

Spanish: diente

Source: KGT (216 KE, 246 EK)

Category: body parts

KLCP Level: 3

Noun

English: cog/sprocket teeth

German: die Zähne des Zahnrades

Source: qep'a' 25

KLCP Level: 3

Noun (slang)

English: idol

German: Zahn

Spanish: ídolo (jerga)

Source: KGT (216 KE, 246 EK)

KLCP Level: 3

Usage for Ho'

butlh ghajbogh nuv'e' yIHo'.

Admire the person with dirt under his fingernails.

Type: proverb - Source: TKW
latlh De'/Additional Information
The Klingon word "{butlh}" ("dirt under fingernails") can be taken literally, but in this expression it means something like "effrontery, impudence, brazenness." The origin of this usage of the term is obscure, but it may be connected to the notion that one not having "{butlh}" is leading a soft, com- fortable, not very Klingonlike life. To say to someone "{butlh DaHutlh.}" ("You lack dirt under your fingernails") is highly insulting. It means that the person is lacking in a certain kind of Klingon spirit. In Federation Standard, an approximate equivalent is gall. Indeed, Worf said to Kevin Uxbridge, "Your attempt to hold the away team at bay with a nonfunctioning weapon was an act of unmitigated gall... I admire gall." Had Worf said that Uxbridge's action was "an act of unmitigated dirt under the fingernails," he would have been misunderstood, at the very least. The Klingon way to say, "you lack gall" is "{HuH DaHutlh.}" This is literally "You lack bile," and a Klingon would probably only understand it biologically.

Ho'Du'lIjDaq to'baj 'uSHom lughoDlu'bogh tu'lu'.

You have some stuffed to'baj legs in your teeth.

Type: QI'lop - Source: Power Klingon

jemS tIy qIrq. loDHom jIHDI' qIrq qun vIqImchoH. ghotvam Ho'lu'. 'ej muSlu'.

James T. Kirk -- I've followed his career since I was a boy. A man to admire... and hate.

Type: sentence - Source: Star Trek: The Final Frontier
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