I love these kinds of compounds in Romance. My latest discovery along these lines was "lawnmower" (Cat. tallagespa, Sp. cortacésped "it cuts lawn"; It. tosaerba "it shears grass").
So do I, although I can't come up with examples right now. It's that "dances with wolves" structure I find cute. It's not Rasenmäh*er* or lawnmow*er* but "he who mows the lawn". It's a different kind of personalization which just sounds neat to my foreign ears. What I love about "sparadrappo" is that it evokes a whole story. I've never thought about what people would do before there were plasters or tissues. They could have done nothing, or licked the blood off (the way you (or at least I) still do with a little bleed on your hand, or, if it was bad enough, used cloth. But material was much more valuable at the time, and you'd have to wash it, fix it, blabla. Saves cloth. Love it.
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What I love about "sparadrappo" is that it evokes a whole story. I've never thought about what people would do before there were plasters or tissues.
They could have done nothing, or licked the blood off (the way you (or at least I) still do with a little bleed on your hand, or, if it was bad enough, used cloth. But material was much more valuable at the time, and you'd have to wash it, fix it, blabla.
Saves cloth. Love it.