Muggeseggele

Muggeseggele, or Muckenseckel, is a humorous Alemannic German idiom used in Swabia to designate a nonspecific very small length or amount of something; it refers to a housefly's scrotum.

According to linguist Hans-Martin Gauger, the second element in the word Muggeseggele corresponds to the standard German Säckel, meaning little sack; the term, therefore, must have originally referred to the scrotum, like the Latin cognate saccellus.

and translates it as Ein bisschen Zeit hätten wir noch, meaning "We still have a tiny bit of time left".

They often do not adapt to the dialect, but show their desire to integrate into the local community by adopting key regional vocabulary.

[10] A cookery book honoring the relationship between the twinned cities of Karlsruhe and Halle contains a small glossary of Saxon and Alemannic words, including Muggeseggele.

[11] An article in Süddeutsche Zeitung quoted Thomas Lindner, CEO of textile machinery company Groz-Beckert in Albstadt-Ebingen and Speaker of Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA) and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Reutlingen, as saying: "At our Indian premises, everybody knows what a muggaseggele is.