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Hi, I sent an ask a while back about the Russian language, but I dunno if maybe Tumblr had it for breakfast or if you didn't wanna answer it. If you didn't wanna answer, pls ignore this then, sorry for babbling.

But in the unlikely case that Tumblr DID have my ask for breakfast- I recently heard that in Russian you can call someone a cabbage as an insult. Is that true? And are there any other similar sayings/idioms that are equally funny when translated?

Just love language so much :)

Hello comrade the Destroyer of Worlds!!! Love to see you here <3 Sorry I kept you waiting, this took longer with my uni shit... also yeah, I think the first ask got eaten :( I promise I wasn't ignoring!! It's a fun ask, so I tried my best, thank you for reaching out :3

So, I think the closest to "cabbage" as insult would be "vegetable" (овощ, [ovoshch] or if it's easier to understand [ovosh'], same sound as in the end of borsht), which I think is an insult in English too and it's not too funny, because it can be ableist. Like, it does depend on the tone, sometimes it's a very rude word meaning an incapacitated, especially mentally, but also often quadriplegic person, that is not nice at all. But sometimes if it's sibling banter (speaking from experience) or like specific proffessional lingo, it doesn't really have that connotation and just means someone useless, maybe spineless, with no drive to them.

However, there is a close sibling, as I was kindly reminded by my love, and that is редиска (radish, [ryediska]), which came into widespread use from a great Soviet comedy "Джентльмены удачи" (Gentlemen of Fortune). It is definitely a funnier one and as the film explains, it means "a no good, bad person". Earlier, around 1920s, this insult was more about two-faced people (as in, red on outside, white on the inside, which refers to the civil war participants, where red were the communist revolutionaries and white were their monarchist opponents, so someone pretending to be a commie comrade but actually supporting monarchy would be called a radish). The movie presents it as a part of prison jargon, but it is actually not - it was used in that nature specifically for that movie and spread out after.

There obviously are a fuckton of funny insults, I probably don't know many of them because regional dialects here can be very different and unique (and I am unfortunately from the lamest capital city so I'm missing out on all the fun dialect stuff), but here have some I thought of. There are much more that are funny (to me, at least) in the way they sound, but you asked about translation, so let's go. It honestly was harder to do than I thought, because it's hard to gauge how funny the insult might seem to a person that never heard it used on a regular basis... I just put what I thought of, there are so many ways to insult someone, you know.

баклан [baklan] (cormorant, like the bird) is in my experience used to call a person being stupid, it's not overly mean, although depends on the tone, obviously.

дятел [dyatel] (woodpecker) is similar, a stupid person or someone who like did a stupid thing. I think my dad uses this one.

глиста [glista] (an informal word meaning the helmint parasitic worms) is a word used as an insult to tall, gaunt, sickly and pale looking people. Honestly just tall and skinny is enough.

ботаник [botanik] (botanist) means same as "nerd", but fuck if I know why we decided to target poor botanists specifically >< (I hated botanics tho when I was studying biology, so maybe that's why...). Can also be used in a form without suffix, ботан [botan], but it just makes it more informal and suitable for spoken speech, doesn't really impact meaning or connotation.

алконавт [alkonavt] is a word made from smushing "alcohol" and "cosmonaut/astronaut" together and just means "alcoholic", but obviously informal and kinda insulting. I just like how it means they're floating somewhere in their own space... which might be one of St. Petersburg's many channels.

мудозвон [mudozvon] (literally translates as "balls-ringer", balls as in testicles) is, first of all, much ruder than all of the above, and it is like a pretty general insult I think. You call this a stupid, unpleasant, unreliable person... basically anyone. Mostly men, obviously, because women usually don't have the equipment to ring + the word is of masculine gender.

And a couple of honourable mentions (phrases)

ебала жаба гадюку [yebala zhaba gadyuku] (a toad fucked a viper) is not really an insult you just yell at someone, but it's a real funny (definitely inappropriate, it has a "bad" curseword) expression we say when witnessing a confrontation between two equally unpleasant parties (let's say a billionare's son is getting into a brawl with a fascist state policeman...). We also have a brilliant noun semi-recently developed from it that makes me wheeze with laughter, жабогадюкинг [zhabogadyuking] (toadvipering). This is a noun to describe said process.

ебать мой лысый череп [yeabat' moy lysyy cherep] (fuck my bald skull) is also not an insult, but a cussword-containing expression meaning something similar to "well fuck me!" as in surprise or disbelief, you get it I think. I just think it's funny cuz of the specification that the skull is only to be bald. No luscious locks on skulls allowed.

Sorry once again for taking so long, comrade, I hope it was at least somewhat worth the wait... love you!

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