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Does your language have animal slangs?

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  • wendyz@piefed.socialW [email protected]

    In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.

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    Someone who is a snake can't be trusted.

    Of course the word bitch, a female dog.

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    • mothra@mander.xyzM [email protected]

      Which regions? And do they say caballo for it or a different word?

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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.

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      • libertylizard@slrpnk.netL [email protected]

        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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        Both. "Cabrón" is specifically billygoat. Goat is used in constructions like "como una cabra" in Spain to mean crazy.

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        • wendyz@piefed.socialW [email protected]

          In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.

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          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.

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          • guillem@aussie.zoneG [email protected]

            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.

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            Rata i curcó sí, però les altres dues ara no hi caic.

            Edit: marrana, ara hi he caigut. Em falta l'altra.

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            • wendyz@piefed.socialW [email protected]

              In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.

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              A chicken hawk is an older gay man who pursuits younger men.

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                Rata i curcó sí, però les altres dues ara no hi caic.

                Edit: marrana, ara hi he caigut. Em falta l'altra.

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                Pècora, from mala pècora, a sheep that goes astray from the herd. And fura 🙂

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                • wendyz@piefed.socialW [email protected]

                  In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.

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                  Bird is slang for woman in the UK and in the Midlands duck is a slang for when you're talking to anyone

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                  • wendyz@piefed.socialW [email protected]

                    In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.

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                    "Chatte" (female cat) is the equivalent of pussy in english.

                    "Poulet" (chicken) is a cop. "Poulette" (hen) is a rather disrespectful word for a women.

                    "Gorille" (gorilla) is a tall muscular person.

                    "Cochon" (pig) is someone filthy, especially in the sexual sense. (can be used as an adjective, "films cochons" are porn films).

                    "Canard" (duck) can be a newspaper, or a mistake when playing music.

                    "Levrette" (female greyhound) is the name for the doggy style sexual position.

                    "Vache" (cow) can be either someone mean, either a cop. The second case is rarely used except in the sentence "Mort aux vaches" (death to the cops) and probably comes from the Wache germanic root for Guardian, rather than the actual animal.

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                    • wendyz@piefed.socialW [email protected]

                      In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.

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                      In Italy "uccello" (bird) means penis in a very unformal context, usually used with friends. In Tuscany, for the regional ones, we have "Topa" (female of the mouse) to indicate a very pretty girl, also very unformal and a bit rude. Same translation for "passera" (female of the sparrow). Both can also indicate the literal female reproductive organe.
                      "Gatta morta" (dead female cat) means somebody who acts ingenous or hide her personality under a chill, almost naif mask to act at the opportune moment.

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                        In USA pigs = police

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                        In every country, all cops are pigs.

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                        • mothra@mander.xyzM [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 person

                          Marmota 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 gay

                          Those are the first ones to pop into my mind but I'm sure there's more

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                          Wondering what region of Spanish this is. I'm mexican and I know some of them but have never heard of others.

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                          • libertylizard@slrpnk.netL [email protected]

                            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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                            Cabron in Mexican Spanish is widely used, but I think it's not usually used to describe dumb. I'd translate it rather as bastard/asshole.

                            It can also be used to describe when a situation or something is difficult.

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                              A chicken hawk is an older gay man who pursuits younger men.

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                              In English? Lol what region? I have never heard this

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                                Pècora, from mala pècora, a sheep that goes astray from the herd. And fura 🙂

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                                I've never used pècora in that sense, only to mean bad person, more like bitch.

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                                  In every country, all cops are pigs.

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                                  In France they are Vache (cows)

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                                    Wondering what region of Spanish this is. I'm mexican and I know some of them but have never heard of others.

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                                    Could be argentinian, at least it checks out. Every one of those is used over there, and the slang sounds about right.

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                                    • wendyz@piefed.socialW [email protected]

                                      In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.

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                                      Kutta in Punjabi is dog, but it can also be an insult and often is (kutti would be the same as calling someone a Bitch).
                                      When I was really young I was in India, and a dog had pups and I tried to approach her, to pet her, and she barked at me which gave me a bit of a spook.

                                      I ran in the house yelling, "kutta doggie!! Kutta doggie!!"
                                      Everyone started laughing 😞

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                                        In English? Lol what region? I have never heard this

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                                        Yes, it's English, but it's gay slang from the Midwest.

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                                        • wendyz@piefed.socialW [email protected]

                                          In Portuguese, I find it funny that gato/gata could be someone attractive or a literal cat.

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                                          "개새끼" (pronounced gay sek ee) literally translates to "dog baby". "Son of a bitch" in Korean. It's honestly the only example I can think of in Korean. I guess you also hear "돼지" (pronounced dway ji) meaning "pig" for fat people. Pretty bog standard around here I guess.

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