Madralo - is it insulting?

Got called Madralo today in an email by a friend, did a search and came up with przemądrzły as a retort. Is this overly insulting considering that the banter can be at this level?

Double checking: Madralo is from mądrośç (however the hell you would pronounce that)?

mądrala - smart ass

can be a little bit offensive, depend on the rest of the context, but usually it is a friendly poke with words, imho

It was.

Is przemądrzły at the same level?

yes, and both have practically the same meaning

Speaking of which I heard the word "Angol" meant something like "pffftt English people" or something like that. One time some Polish girl used that word to some of my colleagues and I asked her about it.

Am I correct in it being an unfriendly word referring to English people? She told me it wasn't an unfriendly word and it just meant "English person."

I say , she wanted to squirm her way from a sticky situation by giving you a bull answer.
Angol has a derogatory conotation.

Yup I thought as much and I'm glad I did question her about it. Slimey cow, pretending to be nicey nicey to everyone O.o I can't stand those people that shit on your back

Bleedin’ England is all about people who smile in your face, then talk bullshit behind your back. Shame that most foreigners adopt this behaviour all too easily...

Probably no more derogatory than calling a Polish person a Pole.


Is it really? So in "foreign" countries people are really honest and upfront all the time...pff!

I don't agree... Angol don't have to be insulting... it might be, but not necessary. Also.. it can be used but not well educated person who just doesn't know that it should be 'anglik'.

I will be content to contend :) Here is empirical evidence:
Going aaaaaaaall the way back to the times, when Jugoslavia still existed.

Anybody remembers word " Jugol"? It was a word describing a Jugoslavian citizen....and believe you me, it was not a nice choice of a word, you would call somebody "Jugol", I guarantee, he would not buy you a drink.

Angol is Jusgol's pejorative brother in arms....

Angol was used on a daily basis by English Philology students in Poland. Hardly uneducated people.

pepiczki for czechs....

I think that the word angol is, in fact, a Hungarian word.

A linguist told me that the suffix -ol mainly used in pejorative expressions has undergone a renascence in recent decades generating such words as Angol, Brytol, Kanadol and katol (for Catholic). Anyone know any others?

No, they aren't... at all. That's why they (we) adopt it so easily. But we have different reasons. (And we have no such manners that the English still seem to have in most cases - I have to admit that!)


It's meaning is English or Englishman. But it is adopted from Latin. No derogatory meaning (same as "Hungarian" in English). In Hungarian, we only have derogatory/tender names for the neighbouring countries and the ethnic minorities... :)