• lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    45·
    21 天前

    people from stockholm call everything that’s outside of the city spenaten, “the spinach”.

  • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    21 天前

    In Romanian it’s „unde și-a înțărcat dracul copiii” which means “where the Devil weaned his children”.

    • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      21 天前

      Portuguese “onde Judas perdeu as botas”. where Judas lost his boots.

      If you go there, pls bring the boots.

      • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        21 天前

        If its even further away it’s “onde judas desistiu de achar as botas”. Where judas gave up trying to find his boots

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        12·
        21 天前

        I mean there’s a reason Bram Stoker picked the name “Dracula” for his character ya know…

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        11·
        21 天前

        Hang on, is “Count Dracula” just Romanian for “Lord Devilish”?

        • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          20 天前

          The father of Vlad Tepes, or the Impaler, was known as Vlad Dracul. Though it wasn’t because people thought he was a devil but because he was a member of the Order of the Dragon which in Latin is Societas Draconistarum. The word “dracu” in Romanian originates from the Latin “Draco” so the connection was easy. Which means the Dracula in this case means “son of Dracul”.

    • ChanchoManco@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      21 天前

      In Latin American Spanish we say “Donde el diablo perdió el poncho” that translates as “Where the devil lost his poncho” or “Donde cayó el avión” / “Where the plane crashed”

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    27·
    21 天前

    American English has “Buttfuck, Idaho”, possibly substituting more polite names, and/or other equally sparsely populated states. If it’s abroad, it becomes Buttfuckistan or some equivalent.

    Not sure about a British equivalent, but I’ve seen “Invernowhere” used in a Scottish context (there’s probably a swearier version this was bowdlerised from), and Dylan Thomas named an imaginary Welsh town Llareggub (read it backwards).

      • protist@retrofed.comEnglish
        9·
        21 天前

        Here in Texas it’s always been BFE, butt-fucking Egypt. Never have I heard Idaho used in this context

        • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          21 天前

          Same in Arizona, people will say stuff like “he lives out in BFE.” I always heard it meant “Bum Fuck East” but is basically shorthand for “way out there.”

    • Maestro@fedia.io
      12·
      21 天前

      In Dutch we have “Lutjebroek”. Problem is, Lutjebroek is also a real village with about 2000 people in it. There’s also “Schubbekutteveen” which does not really exists and roughly translates as scaled-cunt-ville.

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        21 天前

        (Southern) Germany has Hintertupfingen, where “Hinter-” refers to “behind”.

        It really sounds like some 1000 year old village with 20 inhabitants.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      21 天前

      I think this “<…>-nowhere” construction is common and adapted to different areas - I have definitely heard of “Bally-back-o-nowhere” in Ireland.

    • Jackcooper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      21 天前

      I live in WA and I’ve only heard buttfuck nowhere

      Because it’s so boring and far away from everything the only thing to do is fuck butts

  • cgTemplar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    21 天前

    In belgian french, we have “Outsiplou-les-Bains-de-Pieds”. Made up town name that both sounds funny and too long to actually exist, but the Outsiplou part kind of means “listen if it’s raining” in walloon. And “Perpète-les-Oies”. Which you could translate to “Far-away Geese”, which is plain gibberish but sounds like a lot of real places in France. There’s plently of variations but they mostly try to invent a name that sounds like a stereotypical countryside village name.

    • riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      21 天前

      TIL it’s not called “hutsilpu” and actually has as story behind it lol

      i’d never seen it spelled out or the long version, so i just assumed x3

    • CareHare@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      21 天前

      In Flemish (Belgian Dutch) we say: “In 't hol van Pluto” = literally in the arse of (The greek god of the underworld) Pluto.

    • matelt@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      21 天前

      Ooh I always thought it was Outsiploutte. In my area of France we have Perpète-les-Andouillettes (which kind of translates similar to les oies) and Pétaouchnoque.

      • cgTemplar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        21 天前

        I’m sure there’s a bunch of versions anyway ! Each of my grandmas would surely have said it the differently from each other, although they were born 25km from each other.

        I do love how Perpète-les-Andouillettes rhymes !

  • cout970@programming.devEnglish
    18·
    21 天前

    In Spain we have “en el quinto pino”: in the fifth pine, and “estoy a tomar por saco”, which badly translates to “to go get fucked in a bag”.

    • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
      9·
      21 天前

      Also, if a bit more vulgar, “el quinto coño” (“the fifth cunt”). And don’t forget “donde cristo perdió el mechero/ la chancla” (“where Christ lost his lighter/flip-flop”).

  • nowherelord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    21 天前

    In Québec, we say “Saint Clin-Clin De meuh-meuh”; “Saint”, because a lot of towns here are named after a Saint, “Clin-Clin” because of another expression “ti-clin” which means some random person, so “Clin-Clin” means a random Saint, and “des meuh-meuh” because a lot of towns here have some kind of suffix like “des Saults”, or “de Brandon”, so “des meuh-meuh” (like moo-moo) is the sound a cow makes, and I guess it sounds rural or something. Also, when we talk about somewhere very far away, we say “au diable vert” “at the green devil”; not sure about the origin of this expression, though.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      1·
      21 天前

      In Australia we have “the outback”, which isn’t really “the middle of nowhere” but, it’s also nowhere in particular.

      I don’t really know but I suspect it arose in the colonial era, when settlements were on the coast, and the hinterland was settled agricultural properties, but “out the back” away from the coast its dry, arid, and not much to see.

      “The Australian Outback” refers to a class of landscape, rather than a place, but if you’re in the outside back you’re in the middle of nowhere.

  • Mok98@feddit.itEnglish
    14·
    21 天前

    In Italian we say we are in culo ai lupi which means in the ass of wolves or at inculandia which translates to in the ass land

    • RVGamer06@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      20 天前

      In Sardinian, we say a casinu (at the brothel), because often brothels were located far from towns. And if that isn’t enough, you can say a casinu 'e Pompu, combining it with the name of a real place that’s already in the middle of nowhere by itself

  • kamee@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    21 天前

    That’s literally the first time I heard that hungarian version, that’s not what we use, we use “az isten háta mögött” which is “behind gods back” to refer to places in bumfuck nowhere

  • TwodogsFightingEnglish
    12·
    21 天前

    In Scotland, we say ‘middleae fucking naewhere’ or ‘Largs’.

  • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    21 天前

    This may be the first post I’ve ever come across where I was there was an “Upvote All Comments” button…

    These could all be made up for all I know, but they are all very entertaining! 😄