Characters on TV Shows
Odafin Tutuola and John Munch
Law and Order: SVU
Actually brewed more like a beer, this Japanese "rice wine" is about 15% alcohol and often drunk warm
Sake
A huntsman cuts into a wolf's stomach to let this girl and her grandma escape, but the wolf lives! OK, until the girl kills it using stones
Little Red Riding Hood
Hmong to English: "xov" as in "xov ib lub vaj" or "xov lajqab"
put up a fence
An oldie but a goodie, this 1958 Chordettes hit features the line, "sweeter than candy on a stick"
Lollipop
Melinda Gordon and Jim Clancy
Ghost Whisperer
If you order fried squid as an appetizer, it will likely be served under this name
Calamari
Let's thumb through this tale… The girl swims well, gets human legs… Wait, she kinda dies at the end?!
The Little Mermaid
English to Hmong; mountain
roob
This 4-day Chicago music festival is named after a word found in The Three Stooges
Lollapalooza
Pipsqueak and The Duke
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Dom Perignon was a Benedictine monk whose name is on bottles of this potent potable
Champagne
A Seaussian home invasion, now that what he'll do! He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo!
The Cat in the Hat
English to Hmong; to jump
dhia
This bunny, appearing in Space Jam, is the sassy partner of Bugs Bunny
Lola Bunny
Alex and Justin Russo
Wizards of Waverly Place
The first fruit to ripen each spring, this berry can be found in all 50 US states.
Strawberry
…& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night!
Hansel and Gretel
Hmong to English: ntu, as in "ntu no"
This period of time
This metric unit of volume is approximately equivalent to 264 gallons
kiloliter
Linda Martin and Ella Lopez
Lucifer
This word describes the process of slow-cooking meats like pork or duck to cook the fat out of them
Rendering
So angry after his name is guessed, he tears himself in two
Rumpelstiltskin
English to Hmong: Lime
txiv maj naus (txiv qaub also acceptable)
This word , meaning "dawdle" is almost as much fun to say as "dillydally" and "shilly-shally," two of its other synonyms
lollygag