Looking it up just kinda feels like cheating, y’know? Or at least throwing in the towel.

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    10 months ago

    There’s probably a word for it in German or Swedish. I bet it’s long and hard to pronounce, maybe with a non-English pronunciation symbol.

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          10 months ago

          Let me rephrase that: I never heard one. There is a word for tip of the tongue but not for the concrete situation OP described. I mean the possibility to just look up stuff wherever you are is a very recent development so it makes sense that a word that incorporates this isn’t invented yet.

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      10 months ago

      Google translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.