429: Untranslatable (challenge) Feb 10, 2016

Challenge revealed:
'Tartle', a Scottish word for hesitating when introducing someone because you forgot that person's name.
'Trappenwitz' which is literally from the French,'l'esprit d'escalier', for 'staircase-wisdom' which is coming up with something to say after an argument.
'Uhtceare', in Old English meaning, ‘lying awake before dawn and worrying’. There is only one recorded instance of its use.
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