Kummerspeck Kummerspeck

· from German

What does Kummerspeck mean?

Kummerspeck, grief bacon, is the German word for weight gained from emotional overeating.

Kummer means grief or sorrow and Speck means bacon or fat. It is a playful, gently self-mocking term. It regularly appears in lists of untranslatable words.

Examples

Nach der Trennung hat er Kummerspeck angesetzt (after the break-up he put on grief bacon); exam-season snacking

Kungfucius says: Kummerspeck: what happens when your HSK result and a bag of crisps meet at midnight.