What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?

Ill start:

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

Teletubbyzurückwinker.

Someone that waves back at the Teletubbies.

Specific and evocative as fuck. German really is amazing.

Toilettentieftaucher is another great german word mishmash. Literally someone doing deep dives in toilets

… mit Arschbeleuchtung (lit. “with ass lighting”)

Inventing stupid words for “weak” people like that is an ancient German running gag. Like Schattenparker (someone who parks in the shade) or Warmduscher (someone who likes warm showers). It’s always tongue-in-cheek and no serious insult.

These vibe like the kinds of insults you’ll hear on children’s TV

This is by far the best one.

No harsh words or vulgarity but lots of emotional damage.

Schnitzelkind. Breaded-veal kid (wienerschnitzel / milanesa). Basically a kid so ugly, that the parents needed to put a schnitzel around his neck so that at least the dogs would play with him.

Is that what it means? We had a kid at school everyone just referred to as “Schnitzeljunge”, never knew where that name came from.

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.

That’s so specific. lmao

I’m wheezing. Never heard it before but the image is livid in my head.

This reminds me of the not-very-edifying-at-all moment when “joey” became a universal term of abuse in UK playgrounds.

Never heard that one being used, though.

It’s not super common but I do hear it on occasion.

Huh, that’s a rare one.

That just sounds like ableism

Well, yeah, it’s an insult so it’s not exactly meant to be flattering for either the insulted party or the person they are being compared to.

I mean, OP asked for insults. You should be prepared to see some you don’t like (which is the point of an insult after all).

It absolutely is. Many insults are.

As an autistic I aprove, if you arent saying this to a ND or mentally disabled person.

I mean if any intelligence-based insult is, this one certainly is. The thing is it is better to be smart than not, so trying to shut those all down is probably a fool’s errand.

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

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‘Sad trombone’ would be an apt translation, as the sound of refers to is exactly like the meaning of the insult.

Bravo! A perfect write-up. You’re making us proud.

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!

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”

“Eikel” is somewhat equivalent to “asshole”. The word means either “acorn” or the glans of a penis.

I’m American, but isn’t the Brit insult “bell-end” similar to this?

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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.

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I do agree that curse words/expressions based on diseases seem very unique

A go-to for me has recently, for some reason, become godverdekut, so do with that one as you please.

كول هوا

“Kawl hawa”

Literally “eat air” in Arabic

Means shut up

That’s a really good one.

Oh that is fantastic. I need to use that one.

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.

Oh cool, we have a very similar one in German: “His/her swing stood too close to the wall.”

Bizarre j’ai jamais entendu ça…

C’est bien connu en France:

Il a été bercé trop près du mur.

Mieux vaut tard que jamais pour l’ajouter à mon arsenal d’insulte 😁

Ça vient surtout du Saguenay!

I interpret that as is each rocking made him hit the head against the wall, with the corresponding brain damage… :)

Wait I’ve never heard this! so like

“Sa mère l’a bercé trop proche du mur”?

Yes, exactly! Or, “Ya été bercé trop proche du mur.”

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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