Oj bidaku !

What does Oj bidaku mean and what sort of context would it be used for?

It means "Oh, you poor thing".

Bidak is a colloquial (and milder) form o fbiedak which usually means someone who is poor or unlucky. (as in "Oh, you poor guy")

It's not usually an offensive thing to say to someone.

For example: "Oh, you poor thing. Never mind, next time your cake will rise; just don't forget the baking powder again."

There is no such word as "bidaku" in Polish. It's a classical distortion done by those who want to sound like some wise guys or at least low class. The same with "kobita".

Make it "oj, biedaku" and google translator will tell you what it is immediately.

The official Polish National Dictionary lists the word, and gives the definition (my translation) as: a being (human or animal) that arouses compassion on account of the situation in which it finds itself.

Remember though, that the word can be used lightly, flippantly aor occasionally sarcastically. It's not a bad thing to hear.

apart from kobit(k)a and bida (and bidaku) are there other examples of changing -ie- to -i- for expressive effect?

In southern Poland it is bidoku. I still remember my mum saying it to me.


Morons don`t know such stuff exists at all. :):)

...probably why we recognize "aks".

He doesn't, does he.


Thanks. I'll be up all night trying to think of an example!

It's just as bad as kurwa mac when not used extremely selectively and in proper context.

You discredited yourself enough when you said that bidak doesn `t exist.

Thank you everybody. So I understand it is usually affectionate, possibly between boy/girlfriend like "Oh baby" or in some cases as in English could be sarcastic if somebody is playing up an illness for example.


What would you say the proper context was Novichok? To a lover or to a child? Or perhaps just to a friend? Or all of them? :)

Could be. Or something's gone wrong, or you've tripped over or lost something or a parcel hasn't arrived.


Or just to someone you know, a friend, a colleague, a neighbour you chat with.

@jon357
Thank you Jon357

A very close friend after four shots.


You are right. I forgot that Polish is a garbage language without rules and that you can create your own private tumor words as you go along - like "bidak".

How about "bidek"? See how easy it was to add a new word? It should be registered somewhere...Or "bidaczek"... "Bidaczenko", "bidaczuchno"...
More to come tomorrow...

I assume then the female form is "Oj' bidaczko!"

Because it rhymes with Lyzko?

LOL You remember how to form the diminutive, don't you, Rysku? -:)

That happens, but the more official form is bidaka

sjp.pl/bidaka

Even in the Vocative/wolacz? Perhaps "bidakO"?

That information is at the link I posted. Click the word in blue.

@mafketis
Thanks very much!

Sort of, yes.