The Wide, Wide World Of Slang

[Yossarian]

Ooh, I almost forgot, in Russian if you have a little fat belly it's called a "poosa" which translates into the "bourgeois belly." That also makes me laugh and laugh.

ETA: Crack a fat? *shudder* That phrase should be banned!

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yossarian said:

Ooh, I almost forgot, in Russian if you have a little fat belly it's called a "poosa" which translates into the "bourgeois belly." That also makes me laugh and laugh.

Hee. A cool thing my Russian teacher told me once is when you want to call someone crazy, you can say, "He lives on Swimming Pool Street." I love that!

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Of the very limited Ukrainian I have ever picked up most of it was a)swears b)insults and c)forgotten. My favourite was something that translates to "I hope you get kicked by a chicken!"

[LAX]

snowberry said:

Of the very limited Ukrainian I have ever picked up most of it was a)swears b)insults and c)forgotten. My favourite was something that translates to "I hope you get kicked by a chicken!"

heeee....that is just such an awesome visual.

[ramonaq]

larisa said:

Hee. A cool thing my Russian teacher told me once is when you want to call someone crazy, you can say, "He lives on Swimming Pool Street." I love that!

I like that and may have to start using it (in English). My mom grew up in Brooklyn, and when someone does something wackadoo she always says in a sing-song voice: "Uh-oh! Bellevue's right around the corner!"

[raqs]

spordelia said:

"Tabernac" is tabernacle and Wikipedia says "Calice" (there's a ^ over the a, but I'm too lazy to look it up) is chalice. Sounds right - Quebecois often use religious terms for curse words. (I'm fond of "salope du canard" which roughly translates to "slut of a duck." Total nonsense, but it has a great mouthfeel.)

Ah. Patois-speaking (french dialect) West Indians say E Sallop (sp?) or just Sallop as a swear word. It is supposedly interchangable with every imaginable English curse word.

[starskin]

Hm, not sure if this is the right thread but, is it spelled 'pyjamas' or 'pajamas'?
The second one looks weird to me---I think they spell it that way in the UK, though my friends back in the US tell me everyone spells it the second way.

[Smee]

I think pajamas is US and pyjamas is UK.

[ladyboy]

Is Poosa really fat belly? I love it. We call our cat Poosen and her fat belly is her poosen. It was nonsense, but now... it's not!

[kore]

When one of my friends is full, after a large meal, she'll rub her belly while saying "My Poose!" I never knew where that word came from until now.