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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    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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      Another portuguese gem: “tens um parafuso a menos”, which means “you have a missing bolt” (LOL), a way to call someone crazy

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    Heard one: Your mother has a penis and your father is jealous of it.

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    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.

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      While in english it’s completely normal thing to say if you’re not sure of a person’s gender.

      Well…

      You can use “they” without being insulting, as it still presumes personhood, but if you call someone “it” you’re dehumanizing them and stripping personhood from them, as “it” is used for objects and things, not people. It sounds like what you’re translating would be closer to “it” in English than “them” or “they”.

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        Yes but “it” in polish is specifically belonging to the neutral gender. There’s a bit more nuance there if you add context of sentence but it’s pretty much build in. Polish equivalent of “they” or “them” is specifically 3rd person plural and cannot be used in singular and in 2nd person.

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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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    • Γαμώ το σπίτι σου (literally: fuck your house) I guess this basically means to fuck your whole family
    • Γαμώ τη Παναγία σου (literally: fuck your Saint Mary)
    • Γαμώ το Χριστό σου (literally: fuck your Jesus)
    • Να μου κλάσεις τον πούτσο (literally: fart my dick) I guess this means “I’ll fuck you from behind”
    • Πάρ’τα 3 μου (literally: take my 3) The 3 is implied for balls, and they’re 3 instead of 2 because it’s more manly I guess lmao
    • Κλάσε μου τα 3 (literally: fart my 3) A combination of the previous two
    • Αρχίδι (literally: testicle) You can actually call someone a testicle in Greek
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    Not my native language but the German language has some pretty fantastic words/insults like “punchable face” (backpfeifengesicht) and “brain denier” (gehirnverweigerer).

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    Very Belgian: He doesn’t have all his fries in the same bag / Il n’a pas toutes ses frites dans le même sachet

    Meaning that he’s/she’s dumb or confused :D

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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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    When a man balds at a young age, we say ‘they were still shaving his mom when he was born’

    Pretty brutal, eh ?

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    Word: Muji

    In Devnagari (Nepali): मुजी

    Meaning: A woman’s pubic hair

    In sentence: तँ मुजीको गाला फुट्नेगरी पड्काउॅछु।

    Translation: I’ll slap the living crap out of you muji.

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    Κλάσε μου τα αρχίδια” which literally stands for “fart my balls” in Greek.

    It’s a way of telling someone to go fuck himself.

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      Which can also be lovely further embellished such as “πάρε φορά και κλάσε μου τ’αρχιδια” (“take momentum and fart my testicles”) or “θα μου κλάσεις μια μάντρα αρχίδια” (“You’ll fart me a yard of testicles”, usually utilized as a defiant answer to a physical threat)

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    “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.