#insult
- Excommunicated — A person who has been excluded from the church community, excommunicated, or placed under an official ecclesiastical curse. In old popular speech, the word acquired strong pejorative connotations, being used as an insulting epithet for a wicked, stubborn, or faithless individual.
- Affront — Originally, an insult, outrage, act of violence, or flagrant injustice committed by Ottoman authorities against Christian subjects or foreign merchants, often for extortion purposes. In a modern and broader sense, the term designates a deep insult, a public humiliation, systematic harassment, or a severe injustice suffered by a person from someone in a position of power.
- To insult deeply — To deeply insult, humiliate, harass, or subject someone to an outrage; to extort or wrong a person by taking advantage of a position of authority. Historically used in the administrative or vernacular language of regions under Phanariot influence to describe the act of oppressing or imposing abusive taxes.
- Petty harassment — An archaic diminutive form or rare regional variant of 'avanie'; a minor insult, a petty harassment, or a small but annoying injustice committed by someone. In certain ancient dialects, the term could also describe a small arbitrary tax or an unexpected extraction imposed by bailiffs.
- Gossiping shrew — A rare regional term with a pejorative or insulting value, used in some local dialects to designate a talkative, argumentative, gossiping, or disorganized woman in the household. In certain contexts in the east of the country, the word can describe an untidily dressed person or an old, dilapidated house.
- Old malicious hag — A regional pejorative variant used in Moldavian or Eastern Romanian dialects to designate an old, ugly, ill-natured, and bent woman; a hag. In a broader popular sense, the term describes an extremely stingy, nagging person, or an old, worn-out, and unusable tool in the household.
- Gossiping shrew — A rare regional term with a pejorative or ironic nuance, used in some rural eastern Romanian micro-dialects to describe a talkative, untidily dressed woman, or a lazy and disorganized person in household chores. In a broader popular sense, it can also refer to an old tool or a rudimentary mechanism making harsh noises during use.
- Gossiping shrews — Regional plural and pejorative form found in eastern rural dialects for the noun 'badaliurcă', designating multiple talkative, argumentative, or disorganized women in the household. In a broader popular sense, it can also refer to old, worn-out tools or degraded mechanisms that make harsh noises during operation.
- Churl — A person lacking education, manners, and common decency, who behaves rudely, coarsely, or impudently in society. As an adjective, it characterizes behavior, an attitude, or language that is vulgar, trivial, and devoid of refinement, reflecting a severe lack of behavioral education.
- Loose woman — A pejorative, offensive, or slang term used to designate a woman with a conduct considered loose, a female vagabond, a wanderer, or a prostitute. It represents a popular phonetic alteration of the word 'vagabondă'.
- Loose woman — A popular, derogatory, and slang phonetic variant of the word 'vagabondă'; an offensive term used in harsh colloquial speech to designate a woman with a disorderly lifestyle, a homeless wanderer, or a woman considered to have loose morals.
- Shrew — A rare regional and pejorative term used in certain dialects of southern or eastern Romania to describe a quarrelsome, talkative, malicious, or unkempt woman; a vulgar woman who stirs up trouble. In an archaic context, the word could also refer to a broken-down object, an old, noisy, dilapidated structure, or a worn-out tool that no longer functions properly.
- Shrew — A rare regional and pejorative term used in certain dialects of southern or eastern Romania to describe a quarrelsome, talkative, malicious, or unkempt woman; a vulgar woman who stirs up trouble. In an archaic context, the word could also refer to a broken-down object, an old, noisy, dilapidated structure, or a worn-out tool that no longer functions properly.
- Old hag — A depreciative and insulting term used in regional dialects to designate an old, mean, talkative, or untidy woman; an old hag. Broadly, the word can refer to a scheming person who spreads gossip in the community or, in isolated cases, to a dilapidated and dirty shack or hovel.
- Female bastard — A girl or woman born out of wedlock; a female bastard. It represents the feminine counterpart of the archaism 'baistruc', historically applied as a social slight. In modern colloquial slang, it functions as a harsh pejorative insult directed at a woman perceived as aggressive, fake, or vulgar.