Teletubbyzurückwinker.

Someone that waves back at the Teletubbies.

Triangeljosti.

The Jostiband is a Dutch orchestra for people with a developmental disability, mainly people with down syndrome.

A [triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument\)) , or triangel in Dutch, is possibly the simplest instrument you can think of.

So calling someone a ‘triangeljosti’ is basically comparing them to someone who plays the simplest possible instrument in a band for developmentally disabled people.

I’m Dutch. Our insults generally aren’t that long but many of them don’t directly translate to English. They’re also rather crude in comparison. I’ll link to Wiktionary for these words so you can listen to them being pronounced (thanks, Wikipedia contributors!).

Graftak — either a pessimist that always manages to ruin the mood, or an insulting word for an elderly person. Literally means “grave twig”, a type of plant you put on someone’s grave. Very satisfying to say (Dutch g is pronounced like a harder version of ch in “Loch Ness”, the k at the end makes for a nice and hard ending sound for an insult).

Dutch is also one of the few languages cussing with diseases. “Krijg de klere” (get cholera) means “fuck off”. “Klerelijer” (cholera sufferer) is used as an insult. Other common diseases used for cussing include “tyfus” (typhoid) and “kanker” (cancer), though cussing with cancer is generally looked down upon more, probably because typhoid and cholera aren’t the devastating diseases they once were around here anymore. “Tyf op” is derived from typhoid and means “fuck off”. Some rare insults also feature pokken (smallpox) like “pokkenweer” (“smallpox weather”, very bad weather) but I don’t hear those very often.

“Kut” as a prefix for a word is not something I think English has. It means “cunt” but is generally interpreted somewhere between “shit” and “cunt” in terms of severity, depending on where you are in the country.

A thing that frustrates you is a kutding. A door that you just ran into is a kutdeur. An app that makes you mad is a kutapp. Then there’s “kutwijf”, an insult only directed at women, meaning essentially the same as “cunt” in American context, literally translated as “cunty woman”. “kut” can also be used as a replacement for diseases (“kut op” instead of “tyf op”). It can also be a separate word, but calling someone a kut is generallt only done in certain (southern, I believe?) parts of the country.

There are also many kut-derived insults (huppelkut, kuttenkop, sufkut) but many of those words are almost exclusively used for women so I consider them to be in bad taste, unless there’s a male equivalent of equal vulgarity.

The male equivalent for “kut” would be “klote”, “kloten” being a vulgar way to reference the male balls. Klote is considered less crude than kut, and can be an expression by itself (like how some English speakers will shout “balls!”). Derived words often have the same effect as calling someone an asshole in English, like klootzak (ballsack), kloothommel (“ball drone” with “drone” as in “male bee”), and klootviool (“ball violin”).

“Eikel” is somewhat equivalent to “asshole”. The word means either “acorn” or the glans of a penis.

You can call some one a lul or lullo directly but the many compound insults are as varied as the ones available in English. There are a bunch that don’t have direct English equivalents, though.

Other penis-related insults are things like lulhannes (lul meaning dick, hannes meaning “a dumb person”), lulkoek (bullshit, literally meaning “dick cake”), and various uses of the verb “lullen” (“to dick”, meaning “talking bullshit” or just “talking”).

Then there’s the recurring character of Jan lul, Jan being a common first name. Doing something “for Jan lul” means something like wasting your time, doing something for no reason. “Voor Jan lul staan” means standing around doing nothing, “Er voor Jan lul staan” (standing there for Jan dick) means being around for nothing.

Though the Dutch aren’t very religious anymore, I still like “godvergeten” (forgotten by God) as a modifier in a compound swear. Very satisfying to say.

You can of course combine these into phrases like “krijg de klere, godvergeten kutgraftak” if you’re very angrily telling some elderly person to fuck off. The variety of insults available in Dutch cussing language allows for some quite poetic or rhythmically interesting cussing using exclusively crude words, like a poem mostly consisting of “fuck” and “shit”.

كول هوا

“Kawl hawa”

Literally “eat air” in Arabic

Means shut up

In Quebec French, people sometimes say of someone who’s not particularly bright:

“His mom rocked him/her too close to the wall.”

It’s just so… vivid and random.

Salame

Yes that’s right, it means salami and in spanish it’s used to call someone an idiot. Soft insult, but I use it, and saying so and so is a salami in english would only get me weird looks.

While not my native language, in Japanese, many insulting things to call people are often translated as English curses, but actually are just increasingly disrespectful ways to refer to the listener. The actual translation for them is just “you” but not respectful. This might not be a complete list, but I got most of them at least.

Anata - Polite way of saying “you” but not often used in conversation except between spouses or lovers. It’s preferred to use the listener’s name instead.

Kimi - Rude in a polite setting, but not explicitly disrespectful, necessarily.

Omae - Now you’re on the level of picking a fight, but good friends often use this for each other.

Temee - Extremely disrespectful

Kisama - Extremely disrespectful

Kono yarou - Extremely disrespectful

In Chile, not really an insult but rather a lament over how dumb people are sometimes:

“Si los weones volaran, pasaría nublado” (If dumb people could fly it would always be cloudy)

German: “Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen” - Lightning shall strike you while you’re taking a shit

Best insult ever, imo.

“Spargeltarzan”, which is German for “asparagus Tarzan”. Basically someone who is physically weak, but tall and lanky.

I also like “Lauch”, which just translates to “leek”, the veggie. Oh, and “Bohnenstange”, which means bean stalk. We do seem to have quite a few vegetable-related insults in German, now that I think of it…

Yiddish is not my native language but I think this one is so good it absolutely deserves a mention:

All of your teeth shall fall out except one that gives you a massive toothache.

In polish, calling people with the neutral gender. It’s a grave insult which implies lack of agency and dehumanisation, and thank to some rightwinger assholes in parliament is also a specific transphobic insult now.

While in english it’s completely normal thing to say if you’re not sure of a person’s gender.

So definitely not my “favourite”, i would never said this to anyone in polish and i occasionally get a hiccup of misgendering someone in english because of that, but interesting from language point of view.

Portuguese is full of these, but how about vai pra casa do caralho.

Which roughly translates to “go to the dick’s home”, basically another way of saying “go fuck yourself”, but even more vulgar somehow.

My personal favourites from Finnish.

“Ei ole kaikki muumit Muumilaaksossa” “Not having all the Moomins in Moomin Valley” Used for people who are either stupid or lack sanity. There are other variants of this and Moomin one is not older than a couple of decades.

I find our version of Grammar Nazi pretty great. We call them comma fuckers.

“Ei voi kauhalla ottaa jos on lusikalla annettu” “You can’t take with a ladle if it was given with a spoon”. This refers also to a lack of something, usually a lack of intelligence or sense.

Băga-mi-aș pula-n coliva mă-tii de să-mi sară coaiele din bomboană-n bomboană

This is a highly niche one in my native language as well, as one must also know what is colivă - it’s basically a desert that we eat at funerals with m&m-sized candies in it as well. So it roughly translates let me stick my dick in your mother’s coliva so hard that my balls jump from candy to candy