Besides, you didn't misunderstand a term in this case, but rather a deformation of a word :-)

>Thanks for the compliment. FYI, I read a lot in English (science fiction, for instance), and I studied by correspondence in English (last 4 years high school with American School, BS with Grantham College of Engineering).
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>However, every now and then I still encounter a word which seems to be in common use, but which I can't identify. Perhaps it is a lack of conversational English.
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>Hilmar.