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by froh 1416 days ago
it's "Klammeraffe" in German, spider monkey, and figuratively a small monkey clinging to / clasping someone or something.
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It's "zavináč" in Czech -- pickled herring. If you buy them in a jar, they're rolled up, looking a lot like that symbol.
I kept a collection of names for @ on my first website: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202002949/www.student.nada....