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English is not my mother language. Could you please help me?

I want you to explain me the meaning of the expressions or words in capital letters.

1) He took her glass and she LED him OVER

2) SAUERKRAUT

3) ... acting like GEEKY teens with a CRUSH...

4) she snatched a COD-AND-CAPER spring roll off the platter

5) the room was ABUZZ

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I really recommend you to use the following link. It's a good online dictionary, including sometimes translations (of words) to other languages.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

    (Judging by your screen name) if you are Japanese you might want to try the following.

    http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    1) to lead someone over---the floor towards another spot in the room.

    2) pickled cabbage (actually a German food. Goes really well on sausages and with pork chops)

    3) Geeky is awkward...a crush is when someone is over the top in love with someone, but doesn't want to tell them...like a girl who thinks a boy is really good looking, but is afraid to tell him, so she and her girlfriends all sit together at lunch and giggle about him.

    4) Cod is a fish, and capers are little blossoms that are pickled and used to garnish fish...so this would be a spring roll that had cod and capers in it.

    5) abuzz means that people are talking or whispering, possibly about the very good looking stranger who just walked into the room...no one knows how the person is, so they are all whispering to each other, asking "do you know who that is?" and then guessing who they might be...situation like that.

  • Simi
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Led is the past tense if lead. as in to lead. Over in this means to take him somewhere in the same room. As in she took him over to a corner.

    Sauerkraut is actually german. It is a condiment people can put on food. The literal translation is angry cabbage, but it's really just soured cabbage.

    Geeky is a slang word that means uncool or dork-like. Geeky is another word for a nerd.

    Crush is when you like someone, but are not dating them.

    Cod and caper are two types of fish.

    abuzz means everyone was talking about something or there was an air penetrating the room. Ex. Everyone was abuzz with anticipation.

  • 1 decade ago

    1) He took her glass and she LED him OVER

    - She took him to

    2) SAUERKRAUT

    - if I remember correctly.. It's like..fermented cabbage. It's German.

    3) ... acting like GEEKY teens with a CRUSH...

    - Kind of implying like... awkwardness (geeky). Crush is like.. when you like somebody. Sort of like lust. It's not really love.

    4) she snatched a COD-AND-CAPER spring roll off the platter

    - Just a type of food. Cod is a fish. Capers are actually flower buds that never bloomed from a certain plant. They're pickeled. They're kind of like green olives.

    5) the room was ABUZZ

    - Everyone was doing something. Implying a lot of talking, or something of the sort.

    Hope I helped. :] English is hard even for those who speaks it as their first language. Hahah.

  • 1 decade ago

    1) He took her glass and she LED him OVER

    Led - Brought someone, or walked with them.

    Over - above something, or to a place.

    2) SAUERKRAUT

    A type of food made with cabbage. It's Irish.

    3) ... acting like GEEKY teens with a CRUSH...

    Geeky - not a good thing, nerd or someone who is smart in a bad way.

    Crush - liking someone more than a friend.

    4) she snatched a COD-AND-CAPER spring roll off the platter

    Cod and caper - cod is a kind of fish and caper is a kind of vegetable

    5) the room was ABUZZ

    This is more like slang, it means loud, there are lots of people in it.

    Source(s): Ahh I hope I explained them in an understandable way.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    1) He took her glass and she LED him OVER

    -The man takes the woman's glass and she takes him somewhere.

    To Lead (led is past tense) is basically to GUIDE.

    2) SAUERKRAUT

    -This is a German food.

    3) ... acting like GEEKY teens with a CRUSH...

    -This expression suggests that you are being a little immature or perhaps "cheesy". You are behaving like a teenager drooling over someone they are romantically interested in. A CRUSH is someone who you would like to date.

    4) she snatched a COD-AND-CAPER spring roll off the platter

    -She is snatching a spring roll with fish in it, which is on a platter (plate).

    5) the room was ABUZZ

    -Vibrant, animated, alive. A lot is going on in this room.

    Hope I helped :)

  • 1 decade ago

    1) led means basically to bring, over is like over there I don't know how to explain that it's like a space

    2) sauerkraut is a type of topping commonly used with hot dogs

    3) geeky is like nerdy and a crush is like infatuation for a person it's the first stage of liking another

    4) Cod and caper would be cod) a type of fish and caper) a type of pea like vegtable

    5) abuzz would be busy or loud

  • Mike
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    1) "LED him OVER" simply means to take someone to another place, usually by gently grabbing their arm or encouraging them to follow you.

    2) Have never heard of #2, definitely not something you would hear in most casual conversations. It might be a foreign word (sounds German), I think its a type of lettuce.

    3) A CRUSH is when your attracted to someone. The word is mostly used among teens. A GEEK is someone (usually a guy) who really likes games or comics. Someone who might be awkward or a little odd.

    5) ABUZZ means that a room is filled with conversation and you have lots of people doing different things.

  • 1 decade ago

    1) He took her glass and she LED him OVER

    To lead him over: to take him somewhere.

    2) SAUERKRAUT

    Pickled, shredded cabbage (If you're French it's CHOUCROUTE).

    3) ... acting like GEEKY teens with a CRUSH...

    Geeky: someone with technical knowledge (and possibly an eccentric attitude).

    Crush: irrational attraction towards someone.

    4) she snatched a COD-AND-CAPER spring roll off the platter

    Cod-and-caper: (stuffed) with codfish and capers.

    5) the room was ABUZZ

    Abuzz: full of activity (like a buzzing beehive).

  • 1 decade ago

    LED -- the past-tense form of the verb "lead", meaning she brought him over, or was the first one over before he got there

    SAUERKRAUT -- this is actually a food that is from Germany

    GEEKY -- this means that the teens are acting like social outcasts

    CRUSH -- this is a slang term for having romantic feelings for someone

    COD-AND-CAPER -- this is another food, describing the fish inside the spring roll

    ABUZZ -- an adjective describing excitement usually shown in loud comments or whispers

    Source(s): Linguistics major
  • 1 decade ago

    1) I'm not sure if you wrote that one correctly.

    2) It's a type of food.. I'm pretty sure it's a polish word.

    3) A "geek" is someone who isn't popular or who is a loser and a "crush" is when someone likes another person or is "crushing" on them.

    4) It's another type of food. (fish)

    5) "a buzz" two different words. A buzzing noise is what an insect would do, and it's so quiet if there was talking it wouldn't be able to be heard, so it means that the room was very silent.

    I hope I helped you. :]

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