Russiaбеспредел (bespredel)
noun · Colloquial · byes-pree-DYEL
Lawlessness; conduct with no restraint of any kind. Used of police, officials, landlords, employers — anyone acting as though rules do not apply to them.
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Russian Slang for Insults & Complaints
11 Russian slang terms for insults & complaints, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
Terms for fools, annoyances and things gone wrong. Register matters enormously here — several of these words are affectionate between friends and fighting words between strangers.
блядь (blyad)
interjection, noun · Taboo · BLYAT
One of the four roots of мат, and by far the most frequent in speech. As a bare interjection it is 'fuck' in the sense of 'damn it' — surprise, pain, exasperation — and in unguarded male speech it degrades into a pure filler dropped between clauses like a comma.
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херня (khernya)
noun · Vulgar · hyer-NYA
Rubbish; nonsense; a thing of no value. Used both for talk that is untrue and for objects the speaker cannot be bothered to name — 'some bit of junk'.
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хуй (khuy)
noun · Taboo · HOOY
The taboo word for the penis, and the single most productive root in the language: dozens of everyday words are built on it, most of which have nothing to do with anatomy.
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косяк (kosyak)
noun · Informal · ka-SYAK
A screw-up; a mistake that is somebody's fault. The verb накосячить means to make one, and косячить is to keep making them.
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кринж (krinzh)
noun, adjective · Informal · KREENZH
Cringe — the specific embarrassment of watching someone humiliate themselves without realising it. Borrowed wholesale from English internet usage around 2020.
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лох (lokh)
noun · Colloquial · LOKH
A sucker; a mark; someone who can be taken for a ride and does not see it coming. The insult is about being naive and socially weak rather than unintelligent.
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мудак (mudak)
noun · Vulgar · moo-DAK
A contemptible idiot — close to 'arsehole' in force and in usage. The charge is not stupidity so much as behaving badly and not noticing.
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наебать (nayebat)
verb · Taboo · na-ye-BAT
To swindle; to cheat someone out of money or out of what was agreed. Stronger and angrier than кинуть, and implies the speaker considers the deception deliberate and personal.
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зашквар (zashkvar)
noun, adjective · Informal · zash-KVAR
Something shameful, beneath contempt, that taints anyone who touches it. In teenage use it is roughly 'that's a disgrace' and is applied to clothes, music and opinions.
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заебал (zayebal)
verb · Taboo · za-ye-BAL
You've worn me out; I've had enough of you. Always in the past tense with the offender as subject — ты заебал — and always about accumulated irritation rather than a single offence.
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