Ill start:

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

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    In Bulgaria we have the very creative insult „You’re as sharp as an edge on a round table”, which I find pretty amusing

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      Cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn, a caricature of an American southern gentleman, comes pretty close when he describes another character as “about as sharp as a bowling ball”

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        Wow so much lost in translation. I grew up with dubbed looney tunes, never knew he was supposed to be a gentleman let alone that it had a regional flavour. For me it was just a quirky rooster.

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    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”

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      Neat! In Dutch we have azijnpisser/azijnzeiker which means the exact same thing.

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      Same in Dutch: azijnzeiker (azijn = vinegar, zeiker = pisser). So that one does translate well (but not to English :))

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    Portuguese is full of these, but how about vai pra casa do caralho.

    Which roughly translates to “go to the dick’s home”, basically another way of saying “go fuck yourself”, but even more vulgar somehow.

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      Portuguese here. “Diz que vais cagar e baza”, which translates to “Say you go shit and get outa here”, when someone is not welcome.

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        Oh, another one: “deves comer gelados com a testa”, which translates to “you must eat icecream with your forehead”, a not so soft way to call someone stoopid

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        Brazil “eu caguei e andei” (I shat and walked). Functionally equivalent to “I don’t give a shit” but in Portuguese one actually shits but doesn’t care to wipe and walks away or walks at the same as is shitting.

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      I’ve heard ‘caralho’ used to be the name for the lookout on top of a ship’s mast (later turned into yet another word for dick) and sailors were sent to duty on the caralho as punishment?

      I’m not Portuguese though, so if any native could confirm …

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    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”

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    Here are a few Austrian ones:

    “Häferl” (Cup): someone with anger management issues

    “Du rüttelst am Watschenbaum” (You are shaking the slap tree): I’m close to deliver the fruit of said tree to you.

    “Ohrwaschlkaktus” (Ear cactus): Someone with large, protruding ears

    “Saubauch” (Hog belly): A way of telling someone that they are fat and dumb at the same time. But in a nice way.

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    Băga-mi-aș pula-n coliva mă-tii de să-mi sară coaiele din bomboană-n bomboană

    This is a highly niche one in my native language as well, as one must also know what is colivă - it’s basically a desert that we eat at funerals with m&m-sized candies in it as well. So it roughly translates let me stick my dick in your mother’s coliva so hard that my balls jump from candy to candy

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      Does the insult mean the colivā is served at your mother’s funeral, or that it’s the colivā your mother made? Also in what kind of context you use this insult?

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      That is elaborate, vulgar, and 100% delightful. I love hearing stuff like this. Cursing in American English is so boring lol

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    Oh, I’ve several. Irish people love a good curse.

    Go mbrise an diabhal do dhá chois May the devil break your legs

    Go ndéana an diabhal dréimire do chnámh do dhroma May the devil make a ladder out of your spine

    Go n-imí an droch aimsir leat That the bad weather leaves with you

    Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat May the cat eat you and may the devil eat the cat

    And my personal favourite: Lá breá ag do chairde, dod adhlacadh May your friends have a fine day, burying you

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

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    “Spargeltarzan”, which is German for “asparagus Tarzan”. Basically someone who is physically weak, but tall and lanky.

    I also like “Lauch”, which just translates to “leek”, the veggie. Oh, and “Bohnenstange”, which means bean stalk. We do seem to have quite a few vegetable-related insults in German, now that I think of it…

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    In the dialect of the Italian province I’m from, my favorite insult is “Perdabàll”, which literally means “balls loser” as someone who’s so stupid and useless that could even manage to lose his testicles

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        No but for that we use another genital: we say “S’é infigá” which roughly translates to “He got pussy-ed”, meaning someone that got enslaved by a vagina

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    “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.

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    If you want to say that you don’t care about something (as in: “I don’t give a fuck”), in Serbian you would say: “My dick hurts”. And that’s an expression you’ll hear almost daily. A less used variant of that, but still legit is: “My balls are beeping”.

    While not insulting, I’ll throw in our way to say: “I’m/You’re fucked”. It’s: “Jebao sam/si ježa u leđa”, which means: “I/You fucked a hedgehog in the back”