What is the meaning of the main Russian insults

Russian people are sharp on the tongue. The word, as they say, in a pocket will not climb. However, taking once again expletive of "lexical pocket", not the superfluous will learn about its original meaning. Why is it, in fact, has become a dirty word?

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Fool

Perhaps the most common (along with "female" option – a fool) of domestic expletives. I must say that "fools" in Russia appeared relatively recently: in wide use that word entered the second half of the XVII century with a light hand Avvakum.

The leader of the conservatives in the hearts of so called fans "devilish wisdom": rhetoric, philosophy, logic, etc. Interestingly, the Champions of the old faith then became known as "fools" defenders of the correction of the liturgical books during the reforms of Patriarch Nikon.

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It is interesting that Habakkuk spied the word of skomoroshenko culture: it was probably the name of one of the gang of buffoons. Linguists believe that "fool" comes from the Indo-European dur (bite, sting) and literally translates as "bitten", "stung". Perhaps the "title" fool was associated with ritual initiation into clowns – according to one version the person would have to survive the bite of a Viper.

By the way, based on this hypothesis, the adage "fool flock together", most likely, initially, was related to the clowns. Fools, in the current semantic meaning, hardly able to identify their own kind.

Swine

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The word comes from the verb "to drag", "dragging". Originally "bastard" meant "svolochennaya anywhere junk". Then this concept began to be transferred to vagrants and other "useless people".

Scoundrel

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This curse we have learned from the Lithuanians, who used the term "vile" to people with low-born origins. In the XVIII century the word "vile people" was the official term used in government documents designated so-called "irregular" citizens, not part of the petty bourgeoisie.

As a rule, they were laborers, migrant workers from the countryside living in the city on a semi-legal status (such as "limitchikov" of the Soviet time). And only in the end of XVIII century the word "bastard", "bitch" added to the dictionary Philistine intolerance.

Scum

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This word (albeit in the plural – "scum") existed peacefully in the Russian lexicon for several centuries, meaning only the liquid residue at the bottom of the vessel. In the XIX century with someone's light, sophisticated, hands it was transferred to the inhabitants of pubs, preferring to drink a drop of alcohol their other drinks. Then came the expression "scum of society": the so-called antisocial elements of the city.

Scoundrel

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The exact meaning of this word today can not explain no scientist. However, almost all linguists agree that "git" (aka "scum") have a relative of "frost". Of course, hardly "bastard" can be deciphered as "frosty people."

Even "moron" as translation, is also not very fit – too much expression of contempt, usually invest when they say "scum". There is a hypothesis that the villains were called criminals executed by drowning under the ice. In Russian tradition it was believed that people who took such a death becomes a "zalojnik dead," that is, doomed to eternal wandering on earth in a Ghost or even vampire.

Rubbish

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Probably originally used to mean "something ripped off" – tree bark, animal skin, etc. Then, as came to the conclusion the linguists, "stuff" became known as something of no value. However, there are exotic versions that argue that the word is somehow connected with the death by flaying. In other words "rubbish" called people "worthy" of such executions.

Cattle

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It's simple: "cattle" is translated from Polish, like cattle. Arrogant nobles so preferred to call agricultural workers. Then bad habit was passed on to the Russian nobility, and from them went for a walk on bourgeois environment. Interestingly, the Czechs, poles neighbors use the word "redneck" to mean "shelter", "housing". published  

 

Author: Alexey Zheleznov

 



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