Our new linguistic acquisitions from the Polish forums

Yes, it is. And there`s another similar one, but I will post it in another thread.
Fortunately, my poopi.. students are spared the stress because I never take them to the board. We talk sitting at desks.

I do it occasionally, usually if someone's been a bit of a knob and needed to be taken down a peg or two.

It means not bright enough or troublemaker?

A troublemaker, but in this context, it's like they're doing stupid things rather than being an out-and-out troublemaker. For instance -

Me: "That Brajan is playing up in my class"
colleague: "Yeah, he's being a knob in my class too"

Bell-end (or bellend) is also commonly heard in our staff room.

British English has some good words at that "mild" level - kind of 2 out of 5 swearing where someone is foolish and irritating but not offensive. Dickhead, bellend, knob etc.

US English doesn't seem to have the same range - there are not many options between jerk and stronger things like c****ucker.

Oh, I see. It is sth like pajac - clown.

As opposed to "pajak" - spider!

Wow, Cockney slang. Funny.

I like this one because of it`s rhythmic sounding.

However, I am not sure posters know all its meanings: one of them is:

Mindless blathering of a brain dead trumptard who has guzzled too much trump jism, and can no longer speak coherently.

urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=womp%20womp

Wow, thanks Iron, I checked what you mean. I never heard (of) this song.

dictionary.com/e/slang/kumbaya/

kumbaya is often used in political discourse to dismiss efforts at consensus or agreement on complex, dug-in issues as too simplistic, unrealistic, or optimistic, i.e., joining together in song and hand might sound pleasant, but it doesn't make thorny problems go away.

Hmm, really? I can show you texts written by British authors with Gender in personal info section.

Wow, I didn`t know it also connotes a person in English, like in Polish.

2. Someone who does nothing but sit around.

But the Polish one is more derogatory :

This is lump:

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Wow, at last sth new, never seen it here before. To make sure, I checked if the sock has some deeper meanings, but it doesn`t.

In Jamaica we called them 'Logy'.
Here in America we call them 'Wefare f's'.

Yes, however as far as I know the etymology differs.

I wonder if it has anything to do with "lumpenproletariat" which sounds of German origin.

"Lumpen" (plural) in German means "alte, stark beschädigte Kleidung" which is what the down-and-out (lump) in Pawian's picture is wearing.

But that would be a different meaning, wouldn't it?

After all "Lumpenproletariat" isn't so much derogatory for a lazy drunkard but for the very poor but hard working laborer during the industrial revolution, who worked 24/7 but never earned enough for decent housing, food or clothing, hence running around in rags (Lumpen).

Of course....these subtleties could have gone lost in translation during the years...

PS: There could be another meaning for "Lump" (assumed it is german), the english translation would be probably "scalawag". (Rascal? Scoundrel?)

I think it does. We use lumpenproletariat in English too, specifically in connection with Marx's economic theories. Someone one explained that lump came into Polish from that word.

Lump in English is not a particularly pretty word, meaning a shapeless piece of something. Quite an old word.

oops, whenever I saw sb using it here I thought it means moron, idiot. Now, after reading this comment I checked that it means... . you know what. I was wrong for so many years!

No. You were right.
Very few British people give the word a second thought and I am sure that many do not even know the true meaning.

Yeah its a very bad word no one uses it nowadays , well only idiots and sexists, no excuse if a so called intelligent person uses it.

It's one of those slang words with a double meaning. When used in British English, 98% of the time it is used in a "moron, idiot" context.

But you wouldn't know because you haven't lived here for years.....
I hear the word almost daily.... it has lost it's power to offend.

Because you associate with low level morons , whats your business , landscape gardening, meat packing ?

Yeah, but only on PF...... LOL!!

You have become overtly aggresive these days. And you were only passively aggresive not a long time ago.

Das ist nicht so gut, Milo.

You may well be right............


I agree.
I will try to tone down.

Oops, I have just noticed the word "linguistic" in the title is wrongly spelled. What the heck??

But I have come here with another issue. I noticed the phrase Prove it, liar has become quite popular in the forum. Funny. :):)::

That goes way back to Horrible Harry.
He called everyone a liar.
It's a tactic used to keep your opponent on the defensive.

So did "moron" and "Bolshevik" as its leftist version.
Almost forgot..."Darling" and "hahaha" to provoke the opponent into another A violation.