Fun with Polish language 3

ewanotsoyoungadult:

lamus-dworski:

On request: softer and non-vulgar swear phrases, with their literal meaning:

• motyla noga!

  →

  buttefly’s leg 

• kurczę! 

  →

  small chicken / chick (the most popular euphemism starting with ‘kur-’ that can replace the well-known ‘kurwa’)

• kurczę pieczone!

  →

  baked chick

• kurczę blade!

  →

  pale chick

• kurza stopa!

  →

  hen’s foot

• kurza twarz!

  →

  hen’s face

• kurza melodia!

  →

  hen’s melody

• kurka wodna!

  →

  aquatic hen

• rany koguta!

  →

  rooster’s wounds

• psiakość! / psia kość!

  →

  dog’s bone

• psiakostka! / psia kostka!

  →

  dog’s small bone

• psiakrew! / psia krew!

  →

  dog’s blood (probably the strongest of expressions included on the list)

• do stu wilków!

  →

  to a hundred of wolves

• do kroćset!

  →

  to a multitude of hundreds (basically an expression of multiplying the irritation)

• do licha!

  →

  to the likho (licho / likho is a Slavic demon)

• pal licho!

  →

  burn the likho (used rather like ‘whatever!’)

• do czorta!

  →

  to the chort (czort / chort is a Slavic demon, often described as a devil’s minion)

• do pioruna!

  →

  to a lightning (one of phrases supposedly connected to the old cult of the Slavic god Perun) 

• do stu piorunów! → to a hundred of lightnings

• niech to piorun trzaśnie!

  →

  may a lightning thwack it

• jasny pieron!

  →

  bright lightning (with archaic spelling of the word meaning a lightning, but warning: ‘pieron’ is considered a very offensive word in a few regions of Poland e.g. some parts of Silesia)

• jasny piernik!

  →

  bright gingerbread

• jasny gwint!

  →

  bright / obvious screw-thread

• niech to kule biją! → may cannonballs* strike it (*or bullets)

• cholera!

  →

  cholera (yes – the disease, and one of the strongest expressions here)

• choina! / choinka!

  →

  small conifer / Christmas tree (euphemisms replacing the word ‘cholera’)

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[side note: the phrases as included above are used rather non-directly: words one could whisper under their breath, just to themselves. Most could be used also like filler words. Many of them are considered old-fashioned (though still fun to use). These are only some of popular examples. Might edit later!]

Actually the English name for ‘kurka wodna’ (known also as ‘kokoszka wodna’ or ‘kokoszka zwyczajna’ – it’s a water bird species https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokoszka_zwyczajna ) is ‘common moorhen’ or ‘swamp chicken’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_moorhen 😉

Kurka wodna (swamp chicken), ladies and gentlemen: