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Does the word Tintin mean anything in your language?

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Triskeliae
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#21 · Posted: 18 Mar 2008 16:44

I've read somewhere that, for the French, "Tintin" is like the sound of the clanging of cups when a toast is made.

To me, it is like the sound of a small bell.

Sometimes, we (in Puerto Rico) might use these syllables to sound out a tune, like tin tin tin...

cigars of the beeper
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#22 · Posted: 18 Mar 2008 20:19

I know someone who is Chinese (also a Tintin fan!) and I asked him what Tintin meant in Chinese, and he told me that in Chinese it could mean almost anything.

Dupondt
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#23 · Posted: 19 Mar 2008 01:29

I looked up my Irish dictionary just to make sure but alas there's no word, the closest is thintean, pronounced "hin-tawn" meaning fireplace.

youtin
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#24 · Posted: 19 Apr 2008 18:15

My native Spaniard teacher, when I told him to call me "Tintin", said that in Spanish it meant something like the sound of clanging tableware.

And as was mentioned before, for Japanese people who can't pronounce "TI" but instead say "CHI", it means "penis". This got me into some embarrassing situations in Japan :( But not all Japanese people have difficulty saying it. I've been told by some that Tintin is a cute name!

number1fan
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#25 · Posted: 21 Apr 2008 17:07

In my laungage it means God... well maybe not, but i do follow tintin alot.

WaterCloset
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#26 · Posted: 23 Dec 2011 20:10

In my mom's dialect (Bisaya) it means small penis (otin for regular size).

tuhatkauno
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#27 · Posted: 24 Dec 2011 12:50

"Tintin" is a singular genitive case of the word "tintti".

"Tintti" is a name of a group of birds, tits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_%28bird%29

And of course the language is Finnish in my case.

"Tintin" means in English "tit's" or "of a tit".

Ginger_Tuft
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#28 · Posted: 26 Dec 2011 11:07

Tintin ismy English teacher's nickname...lol. And she's a girl!

I read in a magazine that tintin is short for Martin and a popular French nickname for people with the name Martin, but since they also referred to Tintin's quiff or tuft as 'bangs,' I'm not trusting them on this one.

tintinroxs
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#29 · Posted: 2 Mar 2012 01:05

In the English language, there's this word that's close to Tintin and it means the ringing of bells.

tintinsgf
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#30 · Posted: 3 Mar 2012 08:43

In Indonesian it is a "sound effect*" for cars' horn. While in English you use the word "honk" to describe a car's horn sound, in Indonesian you use the word "TINTIIIN!!"(<- note that I use caps lock for loud sounds XD)

*I forgot the exact term for kinds of words like this, is it called cacophony?

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