Ill start:

“Me cago en tus muertos” - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.

    • s20@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Heya. I’m an American, and I’ve got to say thank you. I seriously look forward to calling someone a “ball violin” in English, but if fully intend to add klootviool and and klootzak to my day to day swear bank. Those are so satisfying to say!

      • max@feddit.nlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Just don’t forget that the “oo” is pronounced as the “oh” in “oh shit” and not like the “oo” in “cool” or “mood”. Same for the “a” in “zak”. It’s closer to “ahhh” as in “oooohh and ahhh” or “pasta” than it is to the “a” in “back”

    • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      I also quite like the word ‘droeftoeter’, meaning a sad/depressing person. The closest thing would be the word ‘loser’ in English.

    • Graspieper@feddit.nl
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      2 years ago

      Nice overview! I do not have any proof of this, but I think “Godverdomme”, which is still very common, is a bit unique because rather that God damning it or -you, it translates to God Damn Me.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    Brazilian portuguese tends to lack impactful phrases, but is full of single curse words. A big portion of them a clear example of how much negative bias there is culturally against certain groups (gay men, women in general, disabled), unfortunately :/

    One that isn’t often used, but that I almost always laugh loud whenever I hear, is “Enfia uma dentadura no cu e sorria pro caralho”, which roughly translates into “Stick a denture up your asshole and smile at the dick”. For when simply saying “go fuck yourself” isn’t enough.

  • Horsey@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    French Canadian here

    All of our swear words are Catholic church vocabulary words. As a never Catholic I always find them hilarious when I say them. They can basically be used as stand-ins for words in the same way as we use “fuck” in English or strung together.

    “Saint Ciboire” was my grandmother’s favorite when I would fuck something up.

    baptême [ba.tae̯m]: “baptism”
    câlice [kɑːlɪs] (calice): “chalice”
    ciboire [si.bwɑːʁ]: “ciborium” or “pyx”, receptacles in which the host is stored
    criss [kʁɪs] (Christ): “Christ”, or crisser, a more emphatic version of sacrer, both verbs meaning “to curse”
    esti [əs.t͡si], [ɛs.t͡si] or ostie [ɔs.t͡si] (hostie): “host [cookie]”
    maudit [moːd͡zi] (m) or maudite [moːd͡zit] (f): “damned” (or “damn”)
    sacrament [sa.kʁa.mã] (sacrement): “Sacrament”
    saint [sẽ]: “Saint”, added before others (ex. saint-simonaque, saint-sacrament, etc.)
    simonaque [si.mɔ.nak] (simoniaque): from the sin of simony
    tabarnak [ta.baʁ.nak] (tabernacle): “tabernacle”; typically considered the most profane of the sacres
    viarge [vjaʁʒ] (vierge): “the Virgin Mary”
    Moïse: Moses

  • Slotos@feddit.nl
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    2 years ago

    Not that it’s untranslatable, but I enjoy it quite a lot.

    Поцілуй бузька в калатало - go kiss a stork on the knocker.

    If you ever heard storks, you’ll recognize the dismissiveness of this statement.

  • zabadoh@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Calling a male a “nephew” in Chinese 契弟 kai dai is calling them a male prostitute.

    Usually it doesn’t mean target male has actually been used sexually, but commonly used for general belittlement.

    This term comes from ancient times: Traveling businessmen who would take a young boy with them for sexual use, but if anyone on the road or destination asked who the boy was, the business man would euphemistically explain “He’s my nephew”

    契弟 kai dai is commonly translated as “nephew” but it means “adopted brother”

  • 77slevin@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    “Ge zijt a foorwijf”

    You are a fair bitch. People working the carnival / fair scene don’t have the best of reputation. In Belgium we had a song about this phenomenon and the real fair people were all kinds of angry about the stereotype. The thing is about stereotypes: it really has a base in reality.

  • vitia@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    “mange tes morts” in french, can be translated to “eat your deads” which is like go fuck yourself

  • shrippen@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Du hast doch nicht alle Tassen im Schrank - German, you don’t have all your cups in the drawer.

    Telling someone he is stupid via comparison to cups. Why? Who knows.

    • GreenSkree@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Reminds me of ones like “You’re one fry short of a Happy Meal”, or “You’ve lost some marbles”. They generally imply that you’ve lost or are missing some mental faculties.

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 years ago

      It’s like saying somebody is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

      My favorite way to say that somebody is stupid is to say “Er ist dumm wie drei Meter Feldweg”, translates to “he’s as dumb as three meters (a bit more than 9 yards) of dirt road”.

      • ErilElidor@feddit.de
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        2 years ago

        “Schrank” is not really a drawer. Translating it as “cupboard” would be more appropriate, I think.

        • shrippen@feddit.de
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          2 years ago

          Ah, maybe. My vocabulary for kitchen furniture is a bit unclear sometimes what equates to what.

          Schrank would be a box with doors and several levels of storage inside.

  • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    “I piss in your mother’s death”

    Alternatively, “May Stalin fuck you”

    And yes, I live in Eastern Europe.

  • iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago
    • Γαμώ το σπίτι σου (literally: fuck your house) I guess this basically means to fuck your whole family
    • Γαμώ τη Παναγία σου (literally: fuck your Saint Mary)
    • Γαμώ το Χριστό σου (literally: fuck your Jesus)
    • Να μου κλάσεις τον πούτσο (literally: fart my dick) I guess this means “I’ll fuck you from behind”
    • Πάρ’τα 3 μου (literally: take my 3) The 3 is implied for balls, and they’re 3 instead of 2 because it’s more manly I guess lmao
    • Κλάσε μου τα 3 (literally: fart my 3) A combination of the previous two
    • Αρχίδι (literally: testicle) You can actually call someone a testicle in Greek
    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      We have something similar to “fuck your house”. “Fuck your couch” is a popular insult in American English thanks to Rick James and The Chappele Show. Still, “fuck your house” is more extreme because I guess it includes the couch, too.

      Those are all amazing insults that you listed, btw.

  • kuneho@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Altough it’s more like a “gypsy curse”, but there’s one that translates to sth like “I wish you’ll having ten rings but none fingers”

  • 1bluepixel@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    In Quebec French, people sometimes say of someone who’s not particularly bright:

    “His mom rocked him/her too close to the wall.”

    It’s just so… vivid and random.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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      2 years ago

      A strong insult in french would be to tell that someone has been “fini à la pisse”.

      I don’t know how to translate that but it would means that their dad did not have enough sperm so he used urine to conceive them.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    Triangeljosti.

    The Jostiband is a Dutch orchestra for people with a developmental disability, mainly people with down syndrome.

    A [triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument\)) , or triangel in Dutch, is possibly the simplest instrument you can think of.

    So calling someone a ‘triangeljosti’ is basically comparing them to someone who plays the simplest possible instrument in a band for developmentally disabled people.