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kurwica
koor-VEE-tsah · /kur.ˈvi.t͡sa/
Blind fury / a rage fit — 'mieć kurwicę' is to be seething.
genuinely rude; friends only, never at work
Literally
"the whore-sickness"
Word-for-word — which is rarely what it means.
How to use it
The root nominalized into a medical condition: kurwica is the state of being so furious you could scream the source word on loop. "Dostałem kurwicy" (I caught the rage), "mam kurwicę, jak to widzę" (it drives me up the wall). Half-comic by design — you're diagnosing yourself with a disease named after a curse — which keeps it in venting territory rather than aggression. Watch-your-audience 3 on register alone.
Heard in the wild
Ten formularz to jakiś żart, kurwicy można dostać.
This form is a joke — it could send you into a blind rage.
Where it lands
Poland (universal); colloquial
Quick answers
- What does "kurwica" mean?
- In Polish, "kurwica" means "Blind fury / a rage fit — 'mieć kurwicę' is to be seething.". Literally it's "the whore-sickness". The root nominalized into a medical condition: kurwica is the state of being so furious you could scream the source word on loop. "Dostałem kurwicy" (I caught the rage), "mam kurwicę, jak to widzę" (it drives me up the wall). Half-comic by design — you're diagnosing yourself with a disease named after a curse — which keeps it in venting territory rather than aggression. Watch-your-audience 3 on register alone.
- Is "kurwica" offensive?
- It's genuinely rude — a 3/5 (Watch your audience) on the Punch-o-Meter. Fine among friends, never at work or with people you've just met.
- How do you pronounce "kurwica"?
- Say it "koor-VEE-tsah" — capitals mark the stressed syllable. In IPA: kur.ˈvi.t͡sa.
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