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Teletubbyzurückwinker.
Someone that waves back at the Teletubbies.
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.
Swedish Skitstövel - shit boot, basically means asshole
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.
"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...
Heard one: Your mother has a penis and your father is jealous of it.
"I piss in your mother's death"
Alternatively, "May Stalin fuck you"
And yes, I live in Eastern Europe.
German: "Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen" - Lightning shall strike you while you're taking a shit
Best insult ever, imo.
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.
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.
Oh cool, we have a very similar one in German: "His/her swing stood too close to the wall."
Gea mor net af die Kondl. "Don't step on my milk jug". You're annoying me and you better shut up or go away.
Konnsch mor in Buggl oirutschn. "You can slide down my back". I don't give a fuck.
German dialect from Tyrol.
Salame
Yes that's right, it means salami and in spanish it's used to call someone an idiot. Soft insult, but I use it, and saying so and so is a salami in english would only get me weird looks.
Seems to be used in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Being from Spain, I’ve never heard Salami being used as an insult.
Yiddish is not my native language but I think this one is so good it absolutely deserves a mention:
All of your teeth shall fall out except one that gives you a massive toothache.
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.
Portuguese here. "Diz que vais cagar e baza", which translates to "Say you go shit and get outa here", when someone is not welcome.
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.
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
"Te falta una patata para el kilo" (in Spanish)
English: "You're missing one potato for the kilo."
When you want to call someone a fool or an idiot, you question if they're in their right mind, if they use their head before speaking or doing something.
Spanish from Spain, right?
In Argentina we say
كول هوا
"Kawl hawa"
Literally "eat air" in Arabic
Means shut up
Oh that is fantastic. I need to use that one.
That's hilarious
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.
I'm wheezing. Never heard it before but the image is livid in my head.
That’s so specific. lmao
This reminds me of the not-very-edifying-at-all moment when "joey" became a universal term of abuse in UK playgrounds.
In polish, calling people with the neutral gender. It's a grave insult which implies lack of agency and dehumanisation, and thank to some rightwinger assholes in parliament is also a specific transphobic insult now.
While in english it's completely normal thing to say if you're not sure of a person's gender.
So definitely not my "favourite", i would never said this to anyone in polish and i occasionally get a hiccup of misgendering someone in english because of that, but interesting from language point of view.
Is it kind of like calling someone "it" as an insult in English?
Pretty much yes, the closest thing that would be.
I'd say so, and I've seen it used in the same transphobic contexts.
My favorite has to be zkundyksicht, it comes from "z kundy ksicht" which literally means "a face [that came] from a cunt". "Z" = from, "kunda" = cunt, "ksicht" = a rude way to say face.