The following is a list of shiny sayings that will help you sound like you belong in
the black in no time, what you’d rather talk like some gorram tinhorn that’s your business you hwoon dahn. Just remember to joo ta ma ya ming!
General Expletives
The Black: Outer space beyond the atmosphere of a planet.
brown leather dusters that were part of the uniform
Gorram: General Pronoun meaning annoyng or irritiating
Purplebelly: a soldier of the Alliance so named for their purple chestplates of their
combat armors.
Shiny: General expletive meaning good or agreeable.
Square: Slang for credit (in paper form)
The ‘Verse: shortening of the term universe, meaning the entire whole of known space.
Humped: Screwed
The Void: (See The Black)
Atmo: Short for atmosphere
Grapple: To have sex
The following words and phrases were used in the Firefly TV series and have
been translated many of them are profane, and rather insulting, you were warned.
Ta ma duh! "Fuck me blind!"
BEE-jway. "Shut up."
Shr ah. "Affirmative."
(Joo ta ma ya ming). Joo-yee. "Watch your back."
Ai ya! Hwai leh! "Shit on my head!"
Nee ta ma duh. Tyen-shia suo-yo duh run doh gai si. "Fuck everyone in the universe to death."
mei-mei "little sister"
kwong-chee duh "nuts ,"meaning crazy
Hwoon dahn! “Bastard”
Kuh-oo duh lao bao-jun: "Horrible old tyrant..."
Dong ma? “Understand?”
go tsao duh “dog-humped”
Wuh de ma "Mother of god."
Tzao gao or gos se "Crap."
yu bun duh "stupid"
Jien tah duh guay! “Like hell!”
Liou koe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh bun ur-tze. “ Stupid son of a drooling
harlot and a monkey.”
luh-suh "garbage"
Ma-shong! "Now!"
Da-shiong bao-jah-shing duh la-doo-tze "The explosive diarrhea of an elephant ,"
jien hwo "cheap floozy"
Ching-wah TSAO duh liou mahng "frog-humping sonofabitch."
HOE-tze duh PEE-goo! “Monkey's butt!
Suo-SHEE "petty"
Chiang-BAO HOE-tze duh "monkey raping"
FAHNG-sheen. "Don't worry."
Wuo duh MA "Mother-of-Jesus"
gun HOE-tze bee DIO-se "engage in a feces hurling contest with a monkey"
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