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kurwica

koor-VEE-tsah · /kur.ˈvi.t͡sa/

Blind fury / a rage fit — 'mieć kurwicę' is to be seething.

3/5 Watch your audience

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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