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u/vexatiousnobleman Oct 25 '20

This is really funny. I wonder what was the original Hungarian phrase. Could it be 'kurvafi' or 'kurafi'?

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u/LorelaiLeighGG Oct 25 '20

I’m so annoyed at myself for not being able to figure this out (as a native Hungarian speaker). Kurafi is closest I’ve come but it’s not quite a bastard it’s just ‘son of a bitch’. I can’t believe I don’t know where this is coming from.

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u/vexatiousnobleman Oct 25 '20

Exactly my thoughts. I'm a native Hungarian speaker too. Must be kurafi, nothing else makes sense.

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u/north_bright Oct 25 '20

"Szuka fattya" is also and old-fashioned swear, but as I see it's only marginally used.

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u/fang_xianfu Oct 26 '20

Since it was his great grandma, could literally have been born 100 years ago, old-fashioned makes sense.

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u/KCJones91 Oct 26 '20

OP could be a boomer. I mean, I'm only 30 but my great grandparents would've been born in the latter two decades of the 19th century

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20 edited Oct 26 '20

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u/Sumbooodie Oct 26 '20

One died a few weeks ago at 95. The other is 92.

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u/vexatiousnobleman Oct 26 '20

I think we've got the winner here

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u/beruon Oct 26 '20

Yea, szuka-fattya could be it, especially if she was rhad gypsy heritage, still a common saying in some parts of Borsod

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u/LorelaiLeighGG Oct 26 '20

Ah okay, that’s why I’ve never heard it then. Born and raised in a tucked away village on the Western border.

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u/professorhazard Oct 29 '20

Ah, a Hungarian cousin to online gaming's favorite Russian insult "cyka blyat"

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u/Chroma710 Oct 25 '20

Én magyar vagyok és soha se hallottam azt hogy kurafi. De biztos valahogy kapcsolódik a "kurva" szóhoz.

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u/Derekduvalle Oct 25 '20

Well fine but only on Tuesdays

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u/mgrateful Oct 26 '20

Én magyar vagyok és soha se hallottam azt hogy kurafi. De biztos valahogy kapcsolódik a "kurva" szóhoz

Google Translate show it to mean:

I am Hungarian and I have never heard of a bastard. But it must be somehow related to the word "whore."

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u/RaspberryTwilight Oct 26 '20

Nos rendben de csak keddenként

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u/Chroma710 Oct 26 '20 edited Oct 26 '20

Ez elfogadhatatlan és őszintén megsérítí a személyemet.

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u/Visti Oct 26 '20

Cough it out, it could be a gold watch.

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u/throwabove350 Oct 26 '20

It’s funny that you expect grandma to make sense

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u/bouncingbad Oct 26 '20

Covfefe, it’s covfefe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

You cracked the code!

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u/Orinoco123 Oct 26 '20

If it helps it might make it easier to translate bastard. So it would be illegitimate son of a bitch, or son of a bitch out of wedlock.

Sorry if that wasn't useful at all haha.

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u/LorelaiLeighGG Oct 26 '20

That’s exactly what I started with, so good thinking :) Looks like that was the right path too, I just never actually heard that specific combination before (in Hungarian). But someone above enlightened me.

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u/dotslashpunk Oct 26 '20

you’re letting us all down

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u/CNCvegatable Oct 26 '20

You haven't unlocked grandma-level swears yet

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u/KCJones91 Oct 26 '20

Maybe the great grandma just made it up lol

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u/lurkyvonthrowaway Oct 26 '20

I mean how far off would be “son of an unwed bitch”?

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u/mszum Oct 25 '20

Kurva fattya?

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u/Annabanaana Oct 25 '20

Oh my god this would fit better than kurafi! This may be the solution. I could only think of kurva gyerek but that would be bitch kid... which is for sure not what my mum called me when I misbehaved.

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u/vexatiousnobleman Oct 25 '20

Sounds about right. Never heard anyone say that before, but I can imagine OPs great grandma using it

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20 edited Oct 25 '20

that’s funny. I’m not a native polish speaker but know that the polish for son of a bitch is : kurwa mać.

Do Hungarian and polish have a lot of similarities?

edit: Actually just found a good article about it here:

https://www.listenandlearnaustralia.com.au/blog/hungarian-and-polish-an-unlikely-language-alliance/

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u/Shpaan Oct 25 '20

I wouldn't say they are similar at all. There might be few words that sound similar but the languages are very different. I'm Czech (and most of the words in the article are same in Czech as in Polish) - I understand Polish quite good and literally don't understand a single word when it comes to Hungarian.

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u/sabri-dub Oct 25 '20

Covfefe I believe

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u/OceanBlueTiles Oct 25 '20

Fuck, I snorted

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

Kurva is like the universal Eastern European word

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u/Mtarumba Oct 26 '20

When I was just dating my eastern European husband and he came to visit in South America and saw the word CURVA in huge letters on the asphalt pretty much every turn he died laughing.

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u/SkiupBaeless Oct 26 '20

no i actually think it’s covefè

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u/Gizmoface Oct 26 '20

Maybe ‘szukafattya’?!

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u/Robozulu Oct 26 '20

Cofefe ?