Italian with Mind: Insults.

Hi! So, as you can guess, I'm Italiano. Specifically my family is from Naples, so I'm southern Italian. And Italian-Americans are very vulgar. So I'm gonna show you some expressions and swears I've learned and what they mean!

1. 'Mammata minchia'. This basically translates to Motherfucker. ('Minchia'=cock. 'mammata'+'minchia'='Motherfucker.')

Another variant of this is 'minchia fesse de mammata' This is similar to 'mammata minchia', but it just translates to 'stupid motherfucker'.

2.'Cavolo'. Cavolo just basically is our word for crap. It also translates to cabbage, but it can be used as a swear or expression of anger or annoyance.

3.'Testa di casso' basically just translates to dickhead. (Testa=Head, Cazzo= also means dick. It also translates to fuck. It really depends on the context.)

4.'Bastardo'/'Bastarde'. Do I need to explain this one?

5.'Vaffanculo'. This is one of my favourites. Basically, it translates exactly to 'go fuck yourself.' You can pair it with a specific hand motion* to make it more aggressive or offensive. 

*You take your hand, palm down, and graze your fingers under your chin. You flick your hand outward and gesture forward or at whoever you're cursing out, before you let your hand fall to rest. There's also another one, much more rude, where you put one hand on the middle of your opposing arm, and bend that other arm slightly. It's referred to as an umbrella, but it is considered incredibly rude.

Theres a couple more, but these are just standard ones.

Now, I will warn you, if you are touring Italia or planning on moving there, these swears are usually not condoned in most regions of Italia. The Venetian region is very casual with swearing and vulgarity, but most other regions in Italia are very conservative and religious, and blasphemy is very frowned upon, as well as getting drunk in public, etc etc. 

Some of these might be wrong or a little incorrect, these are just from the context I've heard them, and the definitions which have been taught to me by my relatives.

anyways have fun with that.

p.s. any full italian speakers, do please correct me if i got anything wrong here! Like i said, I've learned this all from observation and what my relatives have told me.