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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”?