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Warning: NSFW
The following word list is ”not safe for work” or for children or for sensitive adults offended by curse words. These words and expressions are from around the globe. Some are mild and some are vulgar so heed the warning!
In my opinion the English curse words could be a little more creative or use a little more imagination in design. Our use of the words shit and fuck are old and boring. In the world, however, other languages have taken a bit more creative license with their insults.
The word profanity, or swear or curse words, is largely Germanic and is sometimes referred to colloquially as "Anglo-Saxon", the oldest form of English. The word shit has a Germanic root, as likely does fuck. Damn and piss come from Old French and ultimately Latin. The more technical and polite alternatives are often Latin in origin, such as defecate or excrete (for shit) and fornicate or copulate (for fuck). The word "wanker" is considered profane in Britain, but it dates only to the mid-20th century.
Fuck is of Germanic origin, related to Dutch, German, and Swedish words for "to strike" and "to move back and forth." It first appears in the 16th century, in a manuscript of the Latin orator Cicero. An anonymous monk was reading De Officiis (a guide to morality) when expressed his anger at his abbot. "O d fuckin Abbot," he wrote in the margin. He recorded the date, 1528, in another comment. It is hard to know whether he intended "fucking" to mean "having sex," or whether he used it as an intensifier, to convey extreme dismay. John Burton, the abbot in question, was a man of questionable monastic morals. The monk had no problem spelling out "fuckin" but refused to write out a word “damned.” To this monk, damnation is the real obscenity.
Two instances of fuck dated before the monk, but scholars deny them the status of first use because one is Scottish and one appears in code, with a Latin verb conjugation. Scottish poet William Dunbar, a former Franciscan friar, wrote (translated into modern English) before his death, in 1513:
“He embraced tight, he kissed and groped,
As if he were overcome with desire.
Yet it seemed from his behavior he would have fucked [fukkit].”
So that’s the etymology of fuck.
The word profanity, or swear or curse words, is largely Germanic and is sometimes referred to colloquially as "Anglo-Saxon", the oldest form of English. The word shit has a Germanic root, as likely does fuck. Damn and piss come from Old French and ultimately Latin. The more technical and polite alternatives are often Latin in origin, such as defecate or excrete (for shit) and fornicate or copulate (for fuck). The word "wanker" is considered profane in Britain, but it dates only to the mid-20th century.
- The history of curse words and profanity was part of spoken words in the medieval era.
- The word fuck was probably first used in English (borrowed) in the 16th century,
- Use of shit in English is much older, rooted in the Proto-Germanic word skit-, then evolved in Middle English to the word schitte, meaning excrement and shiten, meaning to defecate.
- Damn, has its origins in Latin with the word damnum meaning to damage, hurt or harm.
Fuck is of Germanic origin, related to Dutch, German, and Swedish words for "to strike" and "to move back and forth." It first appears in the 16th century, in a manuscript of the Latin orator Cicero. An anonymous monk was reading De Officiis (a guide to morality) when expressed his anger at his abbot. "O d fuckin Abbot," he wrote in the margin. He recorded the date, 1528, in another comment. It is hard to know whether he intended "fucking" to mean "having sex," or whether he used it as an intensifier, to convey extreme dismay. John Burton, the abbot in question, was a man of questionable monastic morals. The monk had no problem spelling out "fuckin" but refused to write out a word “damned.” To this monk, damnation is the real obscenity.
Two instances of fuck dated before the monk, but scholars deny them the status of first use because one is Scottish and one appears in code, with a Latin verb conjugation. Scottish poet William Dunbar, a former Franciscan friar, wrote (translated into modern English) before his death, in 1513:
“He embraced tight, he kissed and groped,
As if he were overcome with desire.
Yet it seemed from his behavior he would have fucked [fukkit].”
So that’s the etymology of fuck.
BOOST YOUR BRAIN
Did you know that expressing a satisfying curse word can actually change your brain making you feel better? And it even helps pain. Profanity is a unique classification of words that when released out loud can release feel good chemicals like. Dopamine. It’s doubtful that a common word like the fuck will do it because there is no dramatic impact. Nobody is shocked by it. But expressing an uncommon one that you have applied meaning to, and impacted by, will affect your brain in a good way.
OTHER BENEFITS
It lessens pain. It is shown that swearing makes you able to withstand discomfort better than not swearing. Using curse words causes physiological changes in your body such as a heightened heart rate. The same changes come from a heightened emotional state because swearing triggers the the fight-or-flight response.
It helps us avoid actual violence. It can be a bad idea to throw a punch at someone who's pissed us off. Use profanity to stand in for aggressive action.
Swearing can boost your strength. Swearing engages both sides of your brain, the language center in the left brain and the emotional center in your right. Studies show that saying a swear word increases cognitive strength. Think of lifting weights and releasing a curse when you exert. Scientists say that the users of sarcasm or profanity have a higher IQ and are creative and imaginative. If you are comfortable with profanity then you tend to be open, honest and unfiltered too. Truly open minds tend to think on a higher level and that’s why people tend to be more intelligent.
Here are some curse words, insults and phrases & expressions from around the globe that when translated into English, can be quite funny. It makes them sound less like swear words even if that is what they are intended for.
Happy cursing!
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This is a living page... that means more curses and countries will be periodically added when I find more good ones!!
Did you know that expressing a satisfying curse word can actually change your brain making you feel better? And it even helps pain. Profanity is a unique classification of words that when released out loud can release feel good chemicals like. Dopamine. It’s doubtful that a common word like the fuck will do it because there is no dramatic impact. Nobody is shocked by it. But expressing an uncommon one that you have applied meaning to, and impacted by, will affect your brain in a good way.
OTHER BENEFITS
It lessens pain. It is shown that swearing makes you able to withstand discomfort better than not swearing. Using curse words causes physiological changes in your body such as a heightened heart rate. The same changes come from a heightened emotional state because swearing triggers the the fight-or-flight response.
It helps us avoid actual violence. It can be a bad idea to throw a punch at someone who's pissed us off. Use profanity to stand in for aggressive action.
Swearing can boost your strength. Swearing engages both sides of your brain, the language center in the left brain and the emotional center in your right. Studies show that saying a swear word increases cognitive strength. Think of lifting weights and releasing a curse when you exert. Scientists say that the users of sarcasm or profanity have a higher IQ and are creative and imaginative. If you are comfortable with profanity then you tend to be open, honest and unfiltered too. Truly open minds tend to think on a higher level and that’s why people tend to be more intelligent.
Here are some curse words, insults and phrases & expressions from around the globe that when translated into English, can be quite funny. It makes them sound less like swear words even if that is what they are intended for.
Happy cursing!
Have a word suggestion? Tweet me @kairosoflife
This is a living page... that means more curses and countries will be periodically added when I find more good ones!!
COUNTRIES FROM A TO F
AFRIKAANS
SIUG AAN MY AAMBEIE EN WAG VIR BETER DAE! - “Suck on my hemorrhoids and wait for better days!"
AMHARIC
SILBABOT - Translates to ‘you are the fatty layer on my warm milk’! To insult someone you think about the worst thing about a really good thing;
ARABIC
TEEZAK HAMRA - زك حمراء طي - Literally "Your butt is red!", meaning "you're a dumbass."
BENGALI
MOTA KUTTA - মোটা কুকুর - “Fat dog!"
BULGARIAN
KON DA TI GO NATRESE - Кон да ти го натресе - “Get fucked by a horse!"
CANTONESE
GAM YU LOU - 金魚佬 - Literally "Goldfish man," pervert, an old man who woos children with bags of pet goldfish.
PUK GAI - 仆街 - “Pave the road with your shit-worthless body!"
CHINESE
FUCK YOUR MOTHER - 肏你妈 is the most common way of insulting someone in Chinese, closely followed by 傻屄, which means “stupid cunt.”
FUCK YOUR ANCESTORS TO THE EIGHTEENTH GENERATION! - 肏你祖宗十八代- This one burns - the burn is even harsher because the Chinese 肏 is considerably stronger than the word “fuck” in English.
TURTLE EGG - 王八蛋 - A strong insult that attacks the offspring of a woman without virtue – effectively like the English word bastard.
COW VAGINA - (牛屄) - Means “fucking awesome” or translated literally “cow cunt”. It’s common to hear young men saying “你很牛,” which means “You are fucking awesome!,” even though it literally means of “You are very cow.” This isn’t really an insult, but it’s still a great use of swear words!
CROATIAN
IDI U PICKU MATERINU - “Go back inside your mother's pussy!"
CZECH
VYKUR MI - “Smoke my cock!"
DUTCH
- AFGELEBBERDE BOTERHAM - Someone who has a lot of sex. Literally an over licked sandwich
- DOOS - Stupid girl. Literally a box.
- FLAPDROL - Idiot. Literally a flap turd.
- KAASKOP - White Dutch person. Literally a cheesehead.
- KLEREZOOI - A fucking mess. Literally a cholera rubbish.
- KLOOTZAK - Asshole. Literally a testicle sac.
- KUTTEKOP - Fuck face. Literally a face like a vagina.
- KUTWIJF - Bitch. Literally a vagina woman.
- MIERENNEUKER - A nitpicker. Literally some who fucks ants
- OPTIEFEN - Fuck off. Literally go get typhus.
- PAARDENLUL - Bastard. Literally a horse’s dick.
- PANNENKOEK - Idiot. Literally a pancake.
- PLEURISLIJER - Motherfucker. Literally a TB victim.
- PESTKOP - Bully. Literally a plague head.
- MAFKETEL - Weirdo. Literally a crazy kettle.
- ROTZAK - scoundrel. Literally a rotten sack.
- SMEERLAP - Dirtbag. Literally a grease rag.
FARSI
KHAK TOO SARET - “Dirt on your head!", in the sense of "May you be buried!"
FRENCH
BORDEL - Whorehouse, is used to describe a mess or as a general swear word, much like “shit” in English
FINI A LA PISSE - Finished with piss - meaning that a person was conceived by a mix of sperm and urine.
JE TE PISSE A LA RAIE! - I piss on your butt crack!
MINCE - Translates to ‘skinny’. Hearing someone yell ‘skinny’ at you sounds weird enough, but in English the equivalent is ‘darn’.
SALOPE/PÉTASSE/POUFIASSE/PUTE - Whore. What’s impressive about this is how many different ways there is to say this in French! You can even combine them, for example to say putain de salope (whore of a whore)
TABARNAK - Translates to ‘Tabernacle’. Literally it doesn’t really make any sense, but it’s actually used to mean fuck.
VA TE FAIRE FOUTRE - Go make yourself ejaculate. A creative way of saying “go away” or “screw off”
COUNTRIES FROM G TO L
GERMAN
AMEISENTÄTOWIERER - So detail oriented their habits are as annoying
ARMLEUCHTER Armleuchter - A dimwit. Literally a candleabra
ARSCHGEIGE - Idiot, asshole
ARSCH MIT OHREN - Literally a walking ass with ears
BANANENBIEGER - Literally “banana bender” or someone who doesn’t want to concentrate school and will inevitably find no other occupation than doing something utterly pointless.
BEWEGUNGSLEGASTHENIKER - A “klutz” or “butterfingers” who stumbles and fumbles through life.
BLOCKFLOTENGESICHT - Literally means a face that looks like a recorder. The standard recorder has 7 openings a Blockflötengesicht has 7 openings (2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth) out of which comes nothing but warm/hot air, i.e. empty talk.
DUMPFBACKE - is a person who’s not just a bit naive and/or intellectually challenged but also lacks empathy and a general sense of reality. In short, the worst kind of stupid.
DÜNNBRETTBOHRER - All bark and no bite.
DU BIST EIN ARSCHGEFICKTES SUPPENHUHN - You are a chicken that got fucked in the ass!"
ERBENSZAHLER - Nitpicker, someone who is constantly concerned with insignificant details.
EVOLUTIONSBREMSE - A person is so stupid that the procreation of their dubious genetic makeup will lead to a massive slowdown of human evolution
FICKFEHLER. A person of unplanned birth. A fuck error.
FLACHWICHSER - Fuckwit. Literally a flat wanker.
GEHIRNVERWEIGERER - a person who refuses to use his brain.
GRAUE MAUS - A wallflower. Literally a grey mouse
HACKFRESSE- An ugly person. Literally ground meat
HEIBLUFTGEBLASE - Literally a hot air blower.
HOHLKOPF -is a head with nothing inside it except, well … air.
HOSENSCHEISSER - Coward. Literally a trouser shitter
KAMPFDACKEL - refers to any annoying canine that thinks its a Doberman or a Great Dane but barely reaches up to its owners knee.
KLAPPSPATEN - A strange tool. Someone who looks a person and talks like a person but looks stupid.
LABERTASCHE - Chatterbox. Literally a babble bag
LACKAFFE - Men who dress overly flashy in the belief that this makes them better human beings while in the end they probably just look like a “lacquer monkey”.
LUSTMOLCHE - Sex crazed person
PAPPNASE - A person whose failure to understand something is cause for great amusement and/or pity.
PISSNELKE - A nerd. Literally a piss carnation
POSHOL NA KHUI - Go ride a dick!
TRANTUTE- Literally a bag of whale blubber
TRATSCHTANTE - Blabbermouth. Literally a gossipy aunt.
ROTZLOFFEL - Brat. Literally a snot spoon
Schlappschwanz - A wimp. Literally a weak cock
STINKSTIEFEL - Grouch. Literally a smelly boot
GREEK
USCAMIAS CHILOTII PE CRUCEA MATII - “I would dry my dirty underwear on your mother's crucifix!"
IRISH GAELIC
GO N-ITHE AN CAT THU, IS GO N-ITHE AN DIABHAL AN CAT - May the cat eat you and may the devil eat the cat!
LA BREA AG DO CHAIRDE… DO D’ADHLACADH - May your friends have a fine day… burying you
GO NDÉANA AN DIABHAL DRÉIMIRE DE CNAMH DO DHROMA AG PIOCADH ULL I NGAIRDÍN IFRINN - May the devil make a ladder of your back bones while picking apples in the garden of hell!
ITALIAN
PORCA MADONNA - translates to ‘Pig Madonna’. Perhaps a hybrid of Miss Piggy and Madonna; Italians use these words when they’re in pain or they’re very angry.
TUA MAMMA BOCCHINARA - Translates as ‘Your Mum's a fluffer’. A fluffer is a person employed to keep a male adult film star aroused on the set.
JAPANESE
- AHO - Moron/Idiot
- BAKA - Stupid
- BAKAYAROU - Idiot/Asshole
- BOKE - Stupid/Unaware/Clueless
- CHIKUSHOU - Son of a Bitch, Damn it, Shit, For Christ’s sake
- FUZAKERU NA - Don’t mess with me/ Fuck Off.
- KUSO - Damn, Crap, Fuck, Shit. Literally, it means shit but it can be used and interpreted as any of the word above. One of my favorite bad Japanese words by far.
- KUSO KURAE - Eat Shit
- ONARA - FART. And the related phrases (if you are so inclined):
- KUSAI ONARA - Stinky fart
- KARE GA SHITA ONARA WA KUSAI - His fart smelled.
- ONARA WO SURU - To fart
- SHINEE - Die!
- UZAI - Annoying, (pain in the ass) Literally means annoying or noisy.
KOREAN
- EE BABUYA - 이 바보야! - You idiot!
- GAETTONG GAT-EUN SOLI - 개똥 같은 소리 - You’re full of shit/that’s bullshit
- GGUH-JUH - 꺼저 - Go away/leave me alone
- GUYEOGJIL NA - 구역질 나 - That’s disgusting
- JAM OLLA GEULEONDA - 잠 올라 그런다 -You’re putting me to sleep
- JEJEONGSIN-IYA? - 제정신이야? - What is wrong with you?
- JIBCHAG JJEONDA - 집착 쩐다 - You’re obsessed
- JINJJA JAESU EOBS-EO - 진짜 재수 없어 - You’re such a jerk
- JJODA DOENEUN GEOYA - 쪼다 되는 거야 - You’re a loser
- MEE-CHEEN-NOM - 미친놈 - Crazy bastard
- NEGA KKWANG-IYA - 네가 꽝이야 - You’re the worst
- PPYONG GASSNA? - 뿅 갔나? - Have you lost your mind?
COUNTRIES FROM M TO Z
POLISH
SPIERDALAJ - “Get the fuck away!"
SCOTTISH WORDS
- BAMPOT - A violent deranged prick
- BAWBAG - Scrotum; annoying person
- BAWHEED - A person whose head is full of bollocks, epic diddy
- BOABY - Penis
- CLAWBAW - Compulsive ball fondler
- DIDDY - A proper tit
- DOBBER - Worthless cockend
- DOBBY - Pile of shit
- FANNYBAWS - Bit of a twat;
- FUD - A daft cunt
- KNOBDOBBER - Complete prick of a tosser
- NUGGET - Colossal numpty
- NUMPTY - Bumbling idiot
- ROASTER - An utter fucking bampot making a fool of themselves in public
- SCUNNER - Loathsome shit
- TWALLY-WASHER - A cocksucker
- WALLAPER - Fucking moron
SCOTTISH EXPRESSIONS
Awa n’ bile yer heed you fuckin roaster - You go and boil your head you twat
Awa you and chew mah banger - Piss off and eat my dick
Bite ma bawsack ya radge wee shite - Eat my balls you crazy shit
Bolt, ya mangled fud - Go away you misshapen vagina
Get tae fuck arsepiece - Fuck off you anus
Oan yer trolley you fuckin weapon - Get list you dangerous arsehole
Shut yer puss fannybaws - Be quiet vaginabollocks
Tongue ma fart box ya fuckin walloper- Lick my arse you fucking dick
Yer bum’s oot the windae ye fuckin bampot - You’re talking rubbish you unhinged tit
Yer maw’s a beetroot - Your mother is a root vegetable
You lavvy heided wankstain - You toilet headed cumsplat
You look like a dug licking pish aff a nettle - You ugly
You jobby flavoured fart lozenge - You turd flavored suppository
Yo’ve got a face lit a melted welly - You look fucking miserable
SPANISH
CABRON - Translates to ‘male goat’. When translated to English it comes to scoundrel, or sly-dog.
SWEDISH
SJUTTON OCKSÅ - It translates to ‘seventeen also’ but the English phrase ‘I’ll be damned’ might be a fair translation.
SKITSTÖVEL - “Shit-boot!", basically, "asshole!"
TAGALOG
MUKHA KANG TAE - “You look like a shit!"
TURKISH
AGZINA SICARIM - “I'll shit in your mouth!"
YIDDISH
GEY STRASHE DI GEN - Translates to ‘go threaten geese’. In English its implication is that you’re unable to threaten the speaker.
KISHKA - means the innards, stomach or intestines: if you were to punch someone in the kishka, you’d be aiming for his stomach.
SHNORRER - Someone who is always asking for money: a beggar or a moocher. Also connotes a frugal or cheapskate.
SHLEMIEL - Someone who’s particularly useless, inept, clueless, and usually klutzy: the type who’s always bumping into things and knocking them over.
BEHEYME - Literally translated means a ‘cow’s head’ but when used as an insult it means ‘fool.’
GAY KOCKEN OFFEN YOM - “Go shit in the ocean!"
KOSHER BEHEYME - A naïve person or a ‘trusting little cow’ – the type of person who would allow themselves to be led to the slaughter.
HOK A CHANIK - To waffle on endlessly, or be forever talking nonsense.
LOCK IN KOP - A ‘hole in the head’. When you don’t want or need something you’d say you need it like you need a ‘lock in kop.’
SCHLUMP - A pathetic human being.
TUCHES - Means your bottom, butt, or derriere. But if you’re a tuches lecker it means you’re a butt-kisser, someone who’s always brown nosing for attention or approval.
Whew! That’s a lot of creative wordplay!
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