Battle School Slang
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Doll back | A screw-up, can't do anything right (Russian: Dolbak) |
| Dow | Weapon (Vietnamese: Dao, "knife") |
| Dull Bob | Idiot (Russian: Dolbaeb) |
| Eemo | Hick, person who's "out of it" (Japanese: Imo, "potato," derisive term for a country hick) |
| Emossin' | Half-baked, lousy, fifth-rate (Japanese slang: Imasen, literally "a thousand things are missing") |
| Goffno | Excrement (Russian: Govno) |
| Greeyaz | Worthless trash, said of people or things (Russian) |
| Jeesh | Troops, army (Arabic: Jaish) |
| Kintama | Testicle (Japanese) |
| Koncho | Traitor (Japanese: Kancho, "enema") |
| Kuso | Excrement (Japanese) |
| Marubo | A violent, dangerous punk. Japanese slang, it means literally "B label," which may have meant "a second-rater" or (more likely) the B stood for boryoku, or "violence," the idea being that as a kid in school, this guy was stamped "B for boryoku." |
| Nuzhnik | Toilet (Russian) |
| Oomay | A jerk or worse (Swahili: Uume, "male generative organ") |
| Piff | Screw up (Portuguese: Pifar, "to fall apart") |
| Shtuka | Thing (Russian) |
| Soak a noky | Get out of the way (Japanese: soko noke) |
| Toguro | A thing that's really cool. (lit. a huge coiled turd) |
| Vang | Electronic money, virtual money (Vietnamese for "gold") |
| Yelda | Male generative organ (Russian) |
| Zhopa | Buttocks (Russian) |