Our Off-Color Dictionary began when our Turkish nephew, Yanki, suggested (in 1996) that we prepare a page with the most commonly heard Turkish language usage words. If we omit them, he warned, our coverage of ‘Practical Turkish’ would be incomplete. How could Turkish language students get by, he insisted, without a basic understanding of profanity and everyday Turkish slang?
And so he convinced us that you can never have a complete idea of a language unless you are familiar with its bawdy jargon. (This is especially true in a language like Turkish, in which words of bad taste can be intermingled with everyday ‘polite’ speech, without flinching. The word boktan first comes to mind, for example.)
And here’s one of our favorite raunchy Turkish colloquialisms…
Like a sapling of geekthere’s also:
and
bed. take a free kick
Illustrative examples:
Hülya Avsar is a favorite Turkish female star of stage, screen and television. In addition to being nice, talented, and pretty, she’s… mmm…sexy, which multiplies her legion of admirers. AND Hülya’s freaky ‘mischief’ inspire her celebrity sisters, who emulate her, on purpose.
So when actress and model Hande Ataizi started missing out on celebrity headlines, she decided to take action, the fastest way she knew how. -mini dress- and on leaving the bar stage to return home, she gave the photographers what they described as “The Frikik (free kick) of the year!“