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Hullo there, my friend and i went travelling when we were sixteen and lived with polish people for two months. we would invariably ask them to tell us polish swear words etc and we also asked them to tell us the words for cat and dog. they told us to say cat like this: (well this is how it sounded) meow-cheche! i thought it was the most lovely word and kind of onomatopoeic. but today i happened to look on the internet and it said the polish word for cat is kot. i now feel stupid and a bit sad. were they taking the mickey? or is there a word for cat in polish that sounds a bit like that? (incidentally, the word for dog they told us was like this: var-cheche). if any polish speakers could shed some light on this i’d be happy. thanks :) jojouna, i remember one swear word but i'm obviously gonna have to write it phonetically so here goes 'pee-er doshay troveikko' (hehe) i think that was supposed to mean 'f*** you man !' and i'm sure i remember something like koorva (cow or tart?) oh and to say someone was ‘flippin crazy’ was like ‘boy-ay bannay’! so do any of these resemble polish swear words? paganka78 – i think you are right about the translation for meow cheche- i still love the word though!:)

Yeah the words they told you meow-cheche and var-cheche means that the cat "makes meow sound" while the the dog "growls." the actual word for cat is kot (short o sound) and the word for dog is pies (pronounced p-yes.) most words in polish can also be said in a cute way so kot could have been said kotek and koteczek (which the even cuter, more playful name.) same thing could be done with pies which could be said piesek and pieseczek. so really what they were telling you was the sound the animals made. and about the swears 'pee-er doshay troveikko' is pierdole sie chlowieku (pronounced pierre-dole sh-ye chwovyeku), which does mean "go f' youself person (meaning it could be meant for a man or woman." "koorva" is "kurwa" (pronounced the way u spelled it) and it means whore or the f-word depending on the situation. it isn't to be confused with "krowa" (pronounced krova) which mean cow lol. the last you mentioned "boy-ay bannay" is pojebany (pronounced po-ye-bah(like a sheep)-ny) which much means "f'ed up in the head" or "f'ing crazy."