History Main / ForeignCussWord

* Done in-universe by [[TheDarkElfTrilogy Drizzt Do'Urden]], when he taunts some stone giants by saying "Mangura bok woklok" which is "Stupid blockhead" in stone-giant language.

* VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV of all things seems to love doing this; the Gridanians have been effing and blinding with British expletives. Bollocks, arse, shite...

* In the ''[[Film/Bedazzled2000 Bedazzled]]'' remake, BrendanFraser's character's first wish is to be powerful and married to his LoveInterest. The Devil, being a LiteralGenie makes him a Colombian drug lord. Besides suddenly speaking in Spanish, he also finds out that his character speaks Russian when dealing with some Russian dealers. When he figures that out, he curses in Russian.

* "Wanker" and "shite", which are considered quite rude in British English, are apparently exotic enough that they can be used on ''TheSimpsons'' without anyone batting an eye. See DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch.
* Similarly, a single episode of ''{{Daria}}'' has the English character[[note]]A personification of Guy Fawkes Day; it's [[BizarroEpisode complicated]][[/note]] saying "wankers", "tossers", and a few lesser swears. When aired in Britain, the character's scenes were so heavily edited that they made little or no sense.

* Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt uses this trope quite liberally.

* Since [[TiffanyGrant her voice actress]] speaks German with some degree of fluency, Asuka's dialogue in the original TV and movie dubs of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is periodically peppered with German swearing.
** In the Manga (Japanese and English) that is literally the first word out of her mouth (actually, "Scheiße!", as written). Second if you count a filler exclamation sound as a word.

* ''AxisPowersHetalia'' has Italy being sent back to Germany in a box with "[[AccidentalInnuendo Fuck]]" written on it. The ones who sent him in that box were [[GratuitousEnglish America]] and [[ClusterFBomb England.]]

* In Terry Pratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}}, a character from Far Überwald (Discworld's "Slavonic" countries) shrieks ''Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!'' at a time of great stress. Terry invented this as a piece of pseudo-Slokian whch means nothing in any known Slavonic language, but which conveys all the sulphurous intensity of real Polish or Russian swearing. In fact, the Czech translator of his books left the cod-Slavonic in place, but went so far as to make the character voicing this oath into an explicit Russian, adding the explanatory footnote that cultured Czech readers would instantly know that only one race on this planet swears like that.

** Giles often uses obscure British slang terms, whose true meanings few Americans would know, but which generally sound like insults in context. Some of these have highly vulgar origins; for instance, Giles uses "berk" as an insult, which comes from the Cockney rhyming slang "[[strike:Berkeley]] Berkshire Hunt". (What rhymes with Hunt?) One episode lampshades this through misinterpretation:

'''Giles''': "No. Toth is the name of the demon." [[spoiler: "Toff", the only real word in British English pronounced the same way as Toth, is a derogatory term for "posh" person - i.e. rich and snooty.]]
** In standard British English, "berk" isn't really very rude. It's also pronounced as it's written, as opposed to the "berk" in "Berkeley", which would be pronounced "bark". So very few people know the origins, and it's used to mean a mild form of "idiot", rather than [[CountryMatters the obscene word it originally comes from]]. If someone knocked over a glass, you might call them a berk, but you certainly wouldn't call them a **** - [[{{Beergasm}} although it depends on what was in the glass]].

*** Bloody and "sod off" are pretty mild in British English. You wouldn't say it to your grandma, but you could say it in public to your mates without offending most people. And your granddad probably says "bloody". However a two fingered (it looks like a backhand peace sign) "up yours" sign is like "flipping the bird" but not used as much.

* ''YoungFrankenstein''. "He would have an enormous schwanzstucker!"
** Schwanzstueck, though nonexistent, literally means "tail piece" in German. However, Schwanz is also used as a slang term meaning "penis."
** Similarly, Johann Krauss' "Suck my ectoplasmic schwanzstucker!" at the end of ''HellboyII: The Golden Army''
*** Might have been a ShoutOut.

* In ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', Napoleon attempts bowling. When he rolls a gutterball (the force pitching him onto his face), he shouts, "Merde! Merde merde merde merde merde merde!" (shit shit shit shit... [repeat ad nauseam])
* ''AustinPowers'' is quite fond of shagging, which sounds merely funny and innocuous to American ears.

* In ''VideoGame/GodHand'', Elvis is inherently fond of swearing in Spanish in a regular basis. Most notable in the battle quotes ("Time to play, pendejo!" "¡No hablo inglés, cabrón!").

* In the game SoulCalibur II, Yoshimitsu says a few Japanese curse words... What's so odd is that these words are ALSO IN THE JAPANESE VERSION!

* In the ''Series/{{Covert Affairs}}'' episode "Begin the Begin", Annie has to protect an Estonian asset, who, upon getting shot at during a car chase, launches into a string of what are presumably profanities in Estonian, given that [[Omniglot Annie]] responds, "You have some mouth on you."

* In the CovertAffairs episode "Begin the Begin", Annie has to protect an Estonian asset, who, upon getting shot at during a car chase, launches into a string of what are presumably profanities in Estonian, given that [[Omniglot Annie]] responds, "You have some mouth on you."

-->-- '''The Merovingian''', ''Film/TheMatrix Reloaded''

* In'' Film/TheMatrix'', The Merovingian likes to swear in French, claiming "It's like wiping your ass with silk."
** His above quote translates to something like [[spoiler: Holy damned bullshity fucking motherfucking shitting son of a bitch]], or something like that. It is literally [[spoiler: "name of God of the whore of the whorehouse of sh*t of sluttery of an idiot of (someone receiving anal) of your mother"]]. Yeah. French allows you to just tack on curse word after curse word with no real grammar involved. FrenchCanadians have a sort of swearing dialect called "sacre" where they combine profanities with terms from Catholic liturgy to create whole paragraphs' worth of nothing but cuss words.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', at one point, Art and his father Vladek are speaking in Polish with English subtitles. Art's father swears, and the Polish contains the actual word (cholera) but the English subtitle simply says "@#%$!"

* In Norway, some people love to use the word shit liberally, although as it is completely homophonous with the harmless N. word "skitt" (dirt), it's hard to tell which they are using. Dirt, meanwhile, derives from the Norwegian word "drit", which today is considered vulgar. They've also got the dialectal "skit", which ''does'' mean "shit" but still isn't too vulgar for normal informal conversation.

* Captain Picard of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has let slip a "merde" at least twice, in "The Last Outpost" and "Elementary, Dear Data" [[note]] a literal case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar[[/note]]. He also swore up a storm in Klingon in one episode. Even the visiting Klingon passenger was impressed.

** Also in the pilot where Sophie calls Nate a "wanker" when he's arrested her.

* PlayedForLaughs in the Korean drama ''Faith'' (aka ''The Great Doctor''). The titular doctor gets angry at an aristocrat and insults in English.[[hottip:*:It was F**K you (asterisks pronounced), go to hell.]] Later, he gets sick, and they think she put a curse on him. It gets so prevalent that her saying "Red Cross" is enough to get three fully armed men to back off.

* TokumeiSentaiGobusters features a character saying "oh shit" in English on two occasions.

-->--'''The Merovingian''', ''Film/TheMatrix Reloaded''

* Some of the background characters in ''{{Titanic}}'' swear in Swedish. "Jävla helvete, det är vatten på golvet!" ("Bloody hell, there's water on the floor!")

* PeterStormare delivers a line of curse words in Swedish in ''TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. "Helvete. Helvete Jävlar. Fan!" Translates to something like [[spoiler: "Hell. Bloody hell. Damn!"]]

* The Hispanic agent in ''BallsOfFury'' calls a bad guy a ''pendejo''.

* Tuco shouts two similar Spanish curses in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. First, when being carried tied-up into town, he shouts out "''¡Hijo de puta te que parió!''" ("Son of the bitch who whelped you!"). Then, when Blondie abandons Tuco in the desert, Tuco yells the big one: "''¡Hijo de una gran puta!''" ("You son of a big whore!").
** The first one is grammatically incorrect though. It has to be either "hijo de puta" or "la puta que te parió".

** Stephen Jay Gould reported that the only reason his father mentioned to study Latin was to translate the passages in Kraft-Ebbing's ''Psychopathia Sexualis''. Since the book was published in 1886, this makes this trope OlderThanRadio.

** The Hork-Bajir controllers often slip into cursing in their own language, leaving things a mix of English, the universal Gilard language and their own. There's a common phrasing of something like "ghilfrash Andalite!"

* ''LateShowWithDavidLetterman'' did a bit where a woman shouted out obscenities in Finnish. On stage. Uncensored. In reality, however, none of what she said was actually obscene, but relatively mild insults delivered in a tone that suggested very offensive content. Apparently they would have still had to bleep the bad words out had there been any, so they settled for what they could get away with.

* ''KonjikiNoGashBell'': EnsembleDarkHorse Victoream regularly uses the phrase "Very shit" on a show generally targeted at a younger age group. Generally translated for American audiences as "Very bad".

* Anglophone ex-pats in Korea sometimes say "Eighteen" to express mild irritation (or to warn mildly-irritating friends that they're on the verge of becoming more-than-mildly irritating). The Korean word for 18 (십팔 ''sip-pal'') is nearly homophonous with the language's preferred obscenity (씨발 ''sibal'').

* Anglophone ex-pats in Korea sometimes say "Eighteen" to express mild irritation (or to warn mildly-irritating friends that they're on the verge of becoming more-than-mildly irritating). The Korean word for 18 (십팔 ''sip-pal'') is nearly homophonous with the language's preferred obscenity (시발 ''sibal'').