Kitty Brussaard Jun 12, 2016:

@Katerina Done :-).

katerina turevich (asker) Jun 11, 2016:

@Kitty Hi. your last entry is spot-on, I think. Would you please post it? I like everything about it, it's classic and still in use.

About "nietszeggendheid", I think these phrases are actually quite important idiomatically (in Dutch), since they are used as "short-hand" by nurses. In any case, I will include a clarification of the condition.

"OK, now, let's get these wayward warriors clean and ready" one of the nurses says in an as yet unwritten book. Great thanks!

Kitty Brussaard Jun 5, 2016:

wayward warriors :-)

Michael Beijer Jun 3, 2016:

her silence is deafening :-)

Michael Beijer Jun 2, 2016:

thus: Vrijzinnige vrijbuiters
Kranige kruidragers
Standvastige strijders

=

Freethinking freebooters
Cross-bearing Christ figures
Quarrelsome combatants

Michael Beijer Jun 2, 2016:

"standvastig" makes me think of persistent, and even better of pugnacious ("eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight"). Now all we need is a translation of "strijder", preferably starting with a p

hmm, or maybe sth with "combatant" or "combative". also nice

or sth with "quarrelsome"

fun with synonyms:

quarrelsome:
argumentative, disputatious, disputative, contentious, confrontational, captious, factious, cavilling, pugnacious, combative, ready for a fight, defiant, hostile, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, militant, warring, fighting, battling;
threatening, litigious;
irascible, cantankerous, irritable, petulant, truculent, fiery, quick-tempered, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, choleric;
bickering, wrangling
British informal stroppy
North American informal scrappy
[ANTONYMS] peaceable