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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"You son of a prostitute" Most European thing I've heard today

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here in Finland we say "the pup of a whore".

Added benefit of being gender-neutral.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Gender-neutral insults

Based Finnish

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: The German original uses "Dirne" which is a very archaic word, could probably be translated as something like "harlot"

[–] python 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So a Dirndl is a slutty dress??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean - nowadays it sorta is, it's been heavily relegated to sexually fetishised contexts.

But the reason a "Dirndl" is called that is, because "Dirne" is a word that used to mean just "woman" but went through a linguistic evolution to mean "prostitute" quite a while ago. Off the top of my head, I don't know of an example that happened similiarly in English, but I'd guess there's bound to be something like that there, too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

"Courtesan" is an example in English, originally meaning 'noblewoman'.

There's also "minx", which originally just meant 'person'. (It's a cousin of "mensch".)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Saving that one for trivia nights