Does your language have animal slangs?
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Most I can think of at the moment are derogatory.
A "dog" is a person pushing their horniness to inappropriate levels.
A "cow" is someone fat and slow/stupid.
A "shark" is a savvy business person who edges into taking advantage of people unethically.
A "snake" is a liar and a cheat. Sometimes slang for a penis.
Quiet, shy people are "mousy".
Someone who tattles to cops/authority is a "rat".
A "chick" is an old-timey term for a girl/woman that might get you slapped.
A "kitty" is a vagina and also may get you slapped depending on context.
Someone messy/dirty is a "pig". "Pig" might also be used for a man who is rude and pushing sexual innuendos onto women without their consent.
While to "go the whole hog" means to not hild back, to embrace doing a thing completely.
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Most I can think of at the moment are derogatory.
A "dog" is a person pushing their horniness to inappropriate levels.
A "cow" is someone fat and slow/stupid.
A "shark" is a savvy business person who edges into taking advantage of people unethically.
A "snake" is a liar and a cheat. Sometimes slang for a penis.
Quiet, shy people are "mousy".
Someone who tattles to cops/authority is a "rat".
A "chick" is an old-timey term for a girl/woman that might get you slapped.
A "kitty" is a vagina and also may get you slapped depending on context.
Someone messy/dirty is a "pig". "Pig" might also be used for a man who is rude and pushing sexual innuendos onto women without their consent.
While to "go the whole hog" means to not hild back, to embrace doing a thing completely.
Bitch [a female dog], an unpleasant or disagreeable woman, a man or woman made submissive or subservient, the act of complaining and finally something causing you problems or complications in an annoying way.
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]In some Spanish-speaking regions, a goat is usually like a big dumb guy. And calling someone a horse is another way of saying they’re stupid.
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
"Bird" is old-time slang for a woman, usually understood to be pretty.
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Cougar, older women attracted to younger men.
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]In Spanish, gato is not necessarily attractive (though they usually are) but a cheap sex worker or a promiscuous seductress/tor.
Potro (colt) is an attractive young man
Yegua (mare) equivalent to bitch, an asshole woman
Vaca (cow) same as in English, could be used for someone overweight or dumb
Cerdo (pig) same as English, a filthy/fat personMarmota and burro (marmot and donkey resp.) someone dumb
Vibora, buitre (snake, vulture resp.) toxic person
Sapo, bicho (frog, bug resp.) someone ugly
Mariposa (butterfly) allegedly or suspected to be gayThose are the first ones to pop into my mind but I'm sure there's more
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In some Spanish-speaking regions, a goat is usually like a big dumb guy. And calling someone a horse is another way of saying they’re stupid.
Which regions? And do they say caballo for it or a different word?
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Most I can think of at the moment are derogatory.
A "dog" is a person pushing their horniness to inappropriate levels.
A "cow" is someone fat and slow/stupid.
A "shark" is a savvy business person who edges into taking advantage of people unethically.
A "snake" is a liar and a cheat. Sometimes slang for a penis.
Quiet, shy people are "mousy".
Someone who tattles to cops/authority is a "rat".
A "chick" is an old-timey term for a girl/woman that might get you slapped.
A "kitty" is a vagina and also may get you slapped depending on context.
Someone messy/dirty is a "pig". "Pig" might also be used for a man who is rude and pushing sexual innuendos onto women without their consent.
While to "go the whole hog" means to not hild back, to embrace doing a thing completely.
Why would chick get you slapped? Growing up that just meant girl. No connotations
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
Cougar.
It's either a type of big cat, or an older, attractive, single woman.
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Why would chick get you slapped? Growing up that just meant girl. No connotations
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Go somewhere public and call a girl a chick, see what happens
Seriously though, it's not the word that's the issue, it's the labelling of someone based on their gender. I can't speak for the bottom line as I don't appear to be a woman, but I'd start getting fucked off if a generic term was used to address me when I had a perfectly good name.
In the UK, an equivalent is "bird". Equally likely to get you booted in the balls.
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Why would chick get you slapped? Growing up that just meant girl. No connotations
Yeah, I would advise using against using it today. Like, I said, old timey. Not as acceptable as it might have been in decades past.
I'm middle millennial and consider it flippant at best. Like "chick flicks" and "chick lit" are seen as less serious/valuable/artistic than media intended for men. "Hot chick" as a way to value/devalue a woman on looks alone.
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]In Norwegian, Grouse (Rype. Don't bother trying, you're definitely pronouncing it incorrectly) somehow became slang for an attractive woman. Not used that often anymore, though.
Caged owl (Burugle) is slang for an unattractive woman.
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
In USA pigs = police
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Cougar.
It's either a type of big cat, or an older, attractive, single woman.
Isn't cougar specifically older women that favour younger men.
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Isn't cougar specifically older women that favour younger men.
I think so but I wasn't 100% sure if it's a requirement.
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
monkey = not attractive, can also be foolish
gorilla = swole, ripped
crocodile = greedy
worm = of low social status
turtle = slow
cockroach = hard to kill
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
Someone who is a snake can't be trusted.
Of course the word bitch, a female dog.
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Which regions? And do they say caballo for it or a different word?
Caballo, yes. That's specific to Costa Rica. I forget where I heard the goat one (cabron) but I think it was either Spain or Mexico.
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Caballo, yes. That's specific to Costa Rica. I forget where I heard the goat one (cabron) but I think it was either Spain or Mexico.
Both. "Cabrón" is specifically billygoat. Goat is used in constructions like "como una cabra" in Spain to mean crazy.
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In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.
Catalan has sheep to mean slut. Woodworm for somebody that pesters or annoys insistently. Ferret for a sly person. A rat, contrary to other languages where it's a traitor, is more used for stingy people.
