| achterlijk |
Achterlijk (literally: "retarded") is an offensive term for the mentally handicapped. A humorous variation, "achterlijke gladiool" (literally: "retarded gladiolus"), was first lexicalized in 1984.[2] |
| debiel |
Debiel is an offensive term for the mentally handicapped. It is commonly used as an insult. |
| idioot |
Idioot means "idiot". |
| kanker |
Kanker means "cancer". It can be used as a strong expletive, as an adjective or as an adverb. Krijg de kanker ("get the cancer") is used as an insult. In slang, it can also have a positive meaning, for example: kankerlekker ("extremely good tasting"). The word is sometimes shortened to its historical euphemism K.[3] |
| kankeren |
Kankeren (literally: "to cancer") is a verb, and means "to complain excessively". |
| kankerlijer |
Kankerlijer means "cancer sufferer". It is a strong insult: an example of its legal status can be found in a 2008 court case, in which using the word kankerlijer to insult a police officer was cited as a serious offense.[4] |
| klere |
Klere is a slang word for cholera. It can be used as an expletive, as an adjective or as an adverb. Kolere is a common variation. |
| klerelijer |
Klerelijer is a slang word meaning "cholera sufferer". It is used an as insult, and roughly analogous to "asshole". |
| kolere |
Kolere is a slang word for cholera. It can be used as an expletive, as an adjective or as an adverb. Klere is a common variation. |
| krijg de... |
To wish a disease upon someone, the words krijg de... ("catch the...", "get the...", "contract the...") are typically used. Examples include krijg de tering, krijg de tyfus, krijg de kanker, krijg de pest, krijg de takke, krijg de klere, krijg het lazarus and the more euphemistic (but more old-fashioned) krijg de ziekte. In standard Dutch, the article is superfluous or incorrect in these phrases, and consequently "de" and "het" are only paired with disease names in context of profanity. |
| lazarus |
Lazarus is a euphemism for leprosy. Krijg het lazarus ("catch the leprosy") is uncommonly used as an insult.[5] More common is the expression "zich het lazarus zuipen" ("to excessively drink oneself [into] leprosy"). Consequently, the expression "he or she is lazarus" has come to mean "he or she is drunk". |
| mongool |
Mongool ("mongoloid") is a common insult. It is an offensive term used to describe Down syndrome. Its diminutive mongooltje is often used as a somewhat more neutral or affectionate term for people with Down syndrome, although it is not considered politically correct. Kankermongool ("cancer-mongoloid") is a common variation: see kanker. |
| lijer |
Lijer (literally: "sufferer") is a noun and suffix. It is correctly spelled "lijder", but the "d" becomes silent in slang. It is used both as a standalone insult and in combination with diseases, such as kankerlijer, pleurislijer, pokke(n)lijer, takkelijer, teringlijer and tyfuslijer. |
| pest |
Pest (literally: "plague", compare "pestilence") can be used as an adjective or as an adverb. The verb pesten means "to bully" (whereas the etymologically related "plagen" means "to tease"). "De pest in hebben" ("to have the plague in") means "to be irritated". The word is sometimes shortened to its historical euphemism P. |
| pestkop |
Literally meaning "plague head", the word pestkop is used to describe someone who engages in bullying. See pest and kop. |
| pleur(it)is |
Pleuris, or less commonly pleuritis, is a slang word for tuberculosis (compare tering), originally referring to any form of lung infection. It can be used as an expletive, as an adjective or as an adverb. Krijg de pleuris ("catch the tuberculosis") is also commonly used. As with tering, the phrase "alles ging naar de pleuris" ("everything went to the tuberculosis", analogous to "everything went to hell") is commonly used. As a verb, the word oppleuren (literally "to tuberculosis off") can mean "to fuck off" (compare optiefen under tyfus). |
| pleurislijer |
Pleurislijer is a slang word meaning "tuberculosis sufferer". It is used an as insult, and roughly analogous to "asshole". |
| polio |
Polio is uncommon as a curse word, and is mostly heard in the phrase "heb je soms polio?" ("do you have polio or something?"), which can be used to insult someone's perceived laziness. The Genootschap Onze Taal (Dutch Language Society) has recently noted a rise in the use of polio as an expletive and adjective in the Rotterdam area, and describes it as a possible alternative to the more severe kanker.[6] |
| pokke(n) |
Pokke(n) (correctly spelled "pokken"; however, the "n" after a schwa is silent in standard Dutch, which affects the spelling of slang words) is a slang word for smallpox. It can be used as an adjective or as an adverb. |
| pokke(n)lijer |
Pokke(n)lijer is a slang word meaning "smallpox sufferer". It is used an as insult, and roughly analogous to "asshole". |
| stom |
Stom (literally: "unintelligent", "dumb", "mute") can be used an intensifier when using curse words. Examples are "stomme hoer" ("dumb whore") and "stomme kut" ("dumb cunt"). |
| takke |
Takke (from the French "attaque") is a slang word for stroke.[7] It can be used an adjective or as an adverb. Krijg de takke ("have the stroke") is used as an insult. A common variation is takkewijf ("stroke woman"): see also wijf. |
| tering |
Tering is a slang word for tuberculosis. It is short voor "vertering" (literally: "digestion"; compare English "consumption"). It can be used as an expletive, as an adjective or as an adverb. Vliegende tering ("flying tuberculosis") is a humorous variation, originally referring to sudden-onset tuberculosis. Krijg de tering ("catch the tuberculosis") is used as an insult. Other words for tuberculosis include TB and TBC, which were historically used as euphemisms, owing to the fact that names of diseases were considered profane.[8][9] As with pleuris, the phrase "alles ging naar de tering" ("everything went to the tuberculosis", analogous to "everything went to hell") is commonly used. |
| teringlijer |
Teringlijer is a slang word meaning "tuberculosis sufferer". It is used an as insult, and roughly analogous to "asshole". |
| tyfus |
Tyfus is a word for typhoid fever. It can be used as an expletive, as an adjective or as an adverb. Krijg de tyfus ("catch the typhoid fever") is used as an insult. The variation optiefen ("to typhoid off") is analogous to "fuck off" (compare oppleuren under pleuris). Sanders and Tempelaars (1998) note tiefttering ("typhoid tuberculosis") as a variation common in Rotterdam.[10] |
| tyfuslijer |
Tyfuslijer is a slang word meaning "typhoid fever sufferer". It is used an as insult, and roughly analogous to "asshole". |
| vinkentering |
Vinkentering (literally: "finch tuberculosis") is noted by Sanders and Tempelaars (1998) as an expression that is typical in the Rotterdam vocabulary. A noted humorous variation is krijg de (vliegende) vinkentering ("catch the (flying) finch tuberculosis").[11] See also tering. |
| ziekte |
Ziekte (literally: "sickness", "illness" or "disease") is used in the expression krijg de ziekte ("catch the disease"). It is a euphemism that can be used for various afflictions. Older variations include "drinken als de ziekte" ("drinking like the disease") and "lui als de ziekte" ("as lazy as the disease"). |
| bek |
Bek ("animal mouth") is most commonly used in the phrase "houd je bek" ("shut your mouth"). Compare kop and muil. |
| bitch |
Bitch is an English loan word. Its Dutch equivalent is teef. |
| chips |
Chips is a softer version of shit, an English loan word. |
| eikel |
Eikel (literally: "acorn") is a neutral word used to describe the male glans (originally a Latin word also meaning "acorn"). As an insult, it's comparable to the English word "dickhead" when used to describe a person. |
| flikker |
Flikker is analogous to faggot. |
| fok |
Fok (literally: the first person singular of "to breed") is used as a variation of the English loan word fuck. It is also in use in the Afrikaans language. The Dutch news site and virtual community FOK! uses this word as its name. |
| fuck |
An English loan word, fuck is a common expletive. Its adjective "fucking" is also commonly in use. The word is productive in Dutch: a standard variation is "fucken met" ("to fuck with"). |
| hoer |
Hoer is the Dutch word for whore. |
| homo |
Homo is the politically correct term to describe a homosexual man (or sometimes woman).[12] Depending on context, it can also be used as an insult. |
| huppelkut |
Huppelkut (literally: "skipping cunt") can be used to insult a woman's perceived shallowness. The word was first used by stand-up comedian Youp van 't Hek.[13] The diminutive form huppelkutje is most commonly in use. It can be seen as a comedic variation of the noun kut. |
| kak |
Kak means "crap". Although it is no longer commonly used in profanity, it is still used as a social slur (see kakker). |
| kattenkop |
Kattenkop (literally: "cat's head") is a mild insult commonly aimed at young girls, and describes a mean or crass character. Compare kop. The related adjective and adverb kattig is equivalent to the English "catty". |
| klootzak |
Klootzak (literally: "orb sack") is a word used to describe the testicles, and is a common insult. It's comparable to the English word "asshole" when used to describe a person. See also zak. |
| klote |
Klote (correctly spelled "kloten"; however, the "n" after a schwa is silent in standard Dutch, which affects the spelling of slang words) is a word commonly used to describe the testicles. It can be used as an expletive, as an adjective or as an adverb. Several common expressions use the word klote, such as "ik voel me klote" ("I feel balls" - "I don't feel good"), "het examen ging klote" ("the exam went balls" - "the exam went badly") and "het weer is klote" ("the weather is balls" - "the weather is bad"). Compare kut. |
| kop |
Kop ("animal head") is most commonly used in the phrase "houd je kop" ("shut your mouth"). Compare bek and muil. |
| kreng |
Kreng (literally: "cadaver") is a common insult aimed at women, and describes a mean or crass character. |
| kut |
Kut is a word commonly used to describe the vagina. It is commonly used as a curse word. It can be used as an expletive, as an adjective or as an adverb. Several common expressions use the word kut, such as "ik voel me kut" ("I feel cunt" - "I don't feel good"), "het examen ging kut" ("the exam went cunt" - "the exam went badly") and "het weer is kut" ("the weather is cunt" - "the weather is bad"). Compare klote. Its common idiomatic use in the phrase "wat kut voor je" ("how cunt for you") expresses roughly the same sentiment as the English "I'm sorry to hear that", albeit in a somewhat profane way. When used as a noun to describe a woman, the meaning of kut is analogous to the American English severity of the word cunt. (Huppelkut is a common comedic variation of this use.) |
| lul |
Lul is a word commonly used to describe the penis. It is used as an insult, and is roughly analogous to the English "dick" when describing a person. |
| lullen |
Lullen (literally: "to dick") is a verb, meaning "to talk pointlessly". It is somewhat analogous to the English phrase "to dick around". Compare ouwehoeren. |
| mierenneuken |
Mierenneuken (literally: "ant fucking") is analogous to "nitpicking". It is considered less offensive than the standalone word neuken. |
| muil |
Muil ("large animal mouth") is most commonly used in the phrase "houd je muil" ("shut your mouth"). Compare bek and kop. |
| neuken |
Neuken literally means "to fuck". It can be used neutrally, as an intimate or romantic term, or as a form of profanity. |
| neukertje |
Neukertje is a diminutive noun derived from the word neuken ("to fuck"). It can be used to describe a person that the speaker is sexually involved with. It can be either used as a term of affection, or as an insult, depending on context. |
| nicht |
Nicht (literally: "female cousin" or "niece") can be used to mean "queer" (noun) or "fairy", to describe a homosexual man. It is commonly used within the LGBT community as a term of endearment or self-description. Its adjective and adverb are nichterig. |
| ouwehoeren |
Ouwehoeren (literally: "to old whore") is a verb, meaning "to talk pointlessly". See also hoer, compare lullen. |
| pissig |
Pissig (literally: "pissy") can mean "pissed off", "angry". |
| poep |
Poep means "poop". Its diminutive poepje (or poepie) is used as a term of endearment comparable to "sweetie", and is not considered profane. In Flemish, a language mutually intelligible with Dutch, the verb poepen instead means "to fuck". The noun poep is the Flemish term for "buttocks". In the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, poep is also used as an ethnic slur to describe German people. |
| poes |
Poes (literally: "puss", "cat") is a word sometimes used to describe the vagina. Its diminutive poesje ("pussy") is also used. |
| poot |
Poot ("animal leg/foot") is a crude word that can be used to describe someone's legs or feet in a rude way. It can also mean "homosexual man". |
| pot |
Pot can mean "homosexual woman". It is somewhat more reappropriated than poot, and consequently analogous to dyke. |
| teef |
Teef means "bitch". Like in English, the word can either be a neutral term for a female dog, or a strong insult aimed at women. |
| trut |
Trut is a common insult aimed at women. It was originally a slang word for vagina.[14] It is significantly milder than kut. |
| tut |
Tut is a common mild insult aimed at women. It is a softer form of trut. Its diminutive tutje is also common, as is the variation tuthola. |
| reet |
Reet (literally: "gash", "tear") is a word used to describe the intergluteal cleft. It's used in a number of common expressions, such as "ik vind er geen reet aan" ("it doesn't interest me at all", literally: "I find no asscrack on it"), "het interessert me geen reet" ("it doesn't interest me one bit", literally: "it interests me no asscrack") and "ik snap er geen reet van" ("I don't understand it one bit", literally: "I understand no asscrack of it"). Compare zak. |
| rot- |
The particle rot- can be used as an adjective when combined with a noun, and is commonly used in words such as "rothond" ("rotten dog"), "rotjoch" ("rotten kid") and "rotweer" ("rotten weather"). |
| rotzak |
Literally meaning "rotten sack" or "rotten testicles", rotzak can be used as an insult, roughly analogous to "asshole". Compare zak, klootzak. |
| schijt |
Schijt means "shit". It's not used as an exclamation, but can be used as part of some common expressions: for example, schijtluis (literally: "shit louse") means "coward". See also stront. |
| shit |
Shit is an English loan word and a common expletive. It is commonly softened to chips. |
| slet |
Slet (literally: "rag") is the Dutch word for slut. The diminutive sletje is also commonly in use. |
| slons |
Slons (literally: "rag") is a Dutch word comparable to slut, and can also be used to describe a woman whose appearance is untidy. Its adjective "slonzig" additionally corresponds to the English word "sluttish" and the German word "schlampig" in its double meaning of "sexually promiscuous" and "negligent". |
| stoephoer |
Stoephoer (literally: "sidewalk whore") can be used as an insult to women. |
| stront |
Stront means "shit". It's not used as an exclamation, but can be used an adjective (for example, "strontjoch", which translates to "shit kid"), or as a part of fixed expressions such as "zak in de stront" ("sink into shit"). Unlike "shit", the word can also be used neutrally. See also schijt. |
| zak |
Zak (literally: "sack") is a word used to describe the testicles, and is a common insult. It's comparable to the English word "jerk" when used to describe a person. Additionally, it's used in a number of common expressions, such as "ik vind er geen zak aan" ("it doesn't interest me at all", literally: "I find no sack on it"), "het interessert me geen zak" ("it doesn't interest me one bit", literally: "it interests me no sack") and "ik snap er geen zak van" ("I don't understand it one bit", literally: "I understand no sack of it"). Compare reet. |
| aap |
Aap (literally: "monkey") is an ethnic slur, to describe people of African descent. |
| bosneger |
Bosneger (literally: "forest nigger") is an ethnic slur, to describe people of African descent. |
| geitenneuker |
Geitenneuker (literally: "goat fucker") is an ethnic slur, and is used to describe people of Middle Eastern descent. See also neuken. |
| kakker |
Kakker (literally: "crapper") is social slur, referring to people of higher social standing than the speaker. Its variation "kouwe kak" (literally: "cold crap") can be used to mock someone's wealth or upper-class mannerisms. See also kak. |
| kut-Marokkaan |
Kut-Marokkaan (literally: "cunt-Moroccan") is an ethnic slur aimed at people from Morocco. It was first publicly used by municipality executive Rob Oudkerk, who was not aware that he was being recorded.[15] It has since been added to the Van Dale dictionary.[16] See also kut. |
| lijp |
Lijp originated as a slur to describe Jewish people, being based on the surname Levi.[17] Later on, it came to mean "slow", "dumb", "sluggish". More recently, the word has also come to mean "cool", interesting" in youth slang. |
| Mocro |
Mocro is an ethnic slur, and is used to describe people of Moroccan descent. It has largely been reappropriated. |
| mof |
Mof is an ethnic slur, and is used to describe people of German descent. It was first noted in 1574.[18] During World War II, the word became more common. In the northern parts of the Netherlands, the word poep is used instead. A variation is moffenhoer, used to describe a woman who was sexually or romantically involved with a proponent of National Socialism (see also hoer). |
| neger |
Neger is analogous to nigger, negro, or the more neutral black person, depending on context. It has largely been reappropriated. |
| nikker |
Nikker is analogous to nigger. However, unlike "nigger", it has never been reappropriated. |
| pauper |
Pauper is a social slur, referring to people of low social standing. Although it is no longer in common use, the word is popular in Leiden student slang as a noun and as an adverb or adjective, and can be used to mean "trashy, gaudy". |
| rapalje / rapaille |
Rapalje / rapaille (originally French) is a pejorative term for lower classes. It is no longer commonly in use. |
| roetmop |
Roetmop (literally: "soot mop") is an ethnic slur. It is used to describe black people. |
| spaghettivreter |
Spaghettivreter (literally: "spaghetti eater", using the crude word for "eater") is an insulting term used to describe people of Italian descent. It can be compared to wop. |
| spleetoog |
Spleetoog (literally: "slit eye") is an insulting term used to describe people of East Asian descent. |
| zandneger |
Zandneger (literally: "sand nigger") is an ethnic slur, and is used to describe people of Middle Eastern descent. |