The story
Kalsarit are underpants, känni is drunkenness. Finland put the concept into its official emoji set in 2015, and a 2018 bestseller exported it to English as päntsdrunk. The sofa does the rest.
kalsarikännit
KAL-sah-ree-KEN-nit[ˈkɑlsɑriˌkænːit]
Pronunciation: Sera · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonsdrinking at home in your underwear, with no plan to go out — päntsdrunk
Closest in English: pantsdrunk, couch-drinking, sofa-drinking. None of them covers it.
How it went in the game
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- Which language is it from?Finnish
- What does it literally say?Underwear-drunk
- What is its opposite?A big night out on the town
- What does it mean?Drinking at home in your underwear, going nowhere