mercredi 27 septembre 2017

September 24th, 2017

If you want to curse at a Hindi speaker, there are certainly many words to choose from. One of the more heavy duty choices would be बहनचूत (behenchoot), which is derived from the words बहन (behen, sister) and चूत (choot, vagina). Saying this to someone implies that you have slept with their sister, and will most likely get you a strong थप्पड़ (thappad, slap). During the time of the British Raj, soldiers misconstrued it as 'barnshoot', which was brought back to the UK as a (somewhat milder) insult.

Bonus:
In the internet era, the insult persists amongst Indians, and is usually written simply 'BC'. If you stumble upon it on an Indian friend's facebook, they are most likely not talking about the era Before Christ...

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