Word: peyo
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...Smurfs, or Les Schtroumpfs as they were originally called in French, first appeared in October 1958 in the Belgian comic magazine Spirou. They were created by the Brussels-born cartoonist Pierre Culliford - better known as Peyo - and were originally mere supporting cast in his medieval Johan and Pirlouit series...
...Peyo said the word came to him when he asked a friend for salt during lunch and, struggling for the word, just blurted out, "pass me the schtroumpf." The same process triggered the Smurf language, which uses the word "smurf" to replace nouns, verbs, and everything in between, with predicable confusion: "I feel like smurfing you on the smurf" could mean either "kissing you on the cheek" or "hitting you on the head...