Florid + typical swear words / expressions, around the world

A Frenchman I knew at university taught me "Taillez-moi une pipe" (sp?) which has a literal translation of "Make me a pipe" and an actual translation of "Suck my dick".

Italians have lots of phrases relating to the amount of "milk" accumulating in their balls, indicating frustration (about non-sexual things, too!).

Yorkie - I love "wizard's sleeve" as an expression

OK - I'll give a few more British terms, these being colloquial or derogatory expressions for gay men:

Uphill-gardener
Shirt-lifter
Beaver-leaver/Vagina decliner
Starfish trooper/Arstronaut
(as in Brazil) Pillow-biter
Crafty butcher (hides his meat round the back!)

[please note - I'm just reporting, not putting-down anyone!]

KP - For completeness, I will add:

Bender
Nob Jockey (nob = penis)
Bum Boy & Batty Boy (batty = bum in UK Asian slang)
Fudge Packer
**** Stabber
Bats (plays) for the other team
Drives on the wrong side of the road

Just to show I'm not sexist, I'll add the following for lesbians and lesbianism:

Rug muncher / carpet muncher
Eating the haddock pasty (pasty = savoury UK pastry shaped vaguely like labia)
Drinking from the furry cup

Also, like kitchenpete, I am not homophobic!


I am enjoying this topic immensely!

I know this I know this I know this... (the poop-as-insult thing). I can't think of where I can find something more definitive than Michael Crichton. But I'm 95% sure I've read this someplace scientific about apes, maybe Koko, maybe someone else. (Her sign for "bathroom" btw is some sort of "GSL" hybrid, but "stupid" is ASL.)

Ditto in Oz.

Leads to much confusion in conversations, until one knows!

As for Americans calling bum bags "fanny packs" - oy veh!!!!

Well, nothing on gorilla swearing so far - but this in on one chimpanzee:

"Washoe uses 'black' as bad... she was terrified by a black dog when young and if she doesn't like something, she's likely to describe it as black, no matter what color it is."

And as for Durex in Australia meaning Sellotape - a friend swore that she was in a London stationer's shop and in came Bruce of the Outback and asked for some Durex. The young assistant blushed and said they didn't stock Durex. 'Yes ya do' said Brucie, 'And I want the Christmas kind with the holly on.'

Lol! Haven't heard durex since I was a kid, mind you!

I like the German 'Korinthenkacker' = nitpicker (lit.: currant bug***)

Spaniards seem to have an excrement fixation. Religion has played an important part in their history, so blasphemy is also important.

A classic Spanish swear:
"Me cago en diez" ( I sh¡t on ten), said instead of "Me cago en Dios" ( I sh¡t on God).

Mexicans (specially from the center and south of the country) use a peculiar form of communication, "albures". Word duels with extrema double sense, in which the winner is the active homosexual partner and the loser is the passive one.
This way a Spanish swear, "Me cago en la leche" ("I sh¡t on milk"), is a suicide albur. The speaker is assuming a passive homosexual role.

Found this page, Krijg de vinkentering! 1001 Nederlandse en Vlaamse verwensingen, which includes the indeed impressive ditty:

Truely a thread for me, I'll read up.