WARNING: As wasps find human sex disgusting, the act and related subjects are prominent in wasp swearing. Proceed with caution.


Azat Fucker: Extremely insulting term for a mosquito, lit. "monster fucker."

Bek: Nail. Rude term for a stinger.

Colo: Wasp equivalent of "pussy," it. "human woman." A rude term if used from one grown wasp to another, but acceptable (if harsh) when used by a combat instructor to her students.

Demada: Razorborn. Mildly insulting use of a word meaning "made from odds and ends." Can be used as a term of endearment.

Dolok: Unappealing breasts, lit. "spider eggs."

Eso: Wasp who shows interest in romance or sex, lit. "boy."

Eso ya: Literally "whoreboy." Refers to a wasp who is known to have had sex. The second-worse swear in wasptongue.

Eso za: Wasp interested in romance or sex with another woman, lit. "queerboy."

Fuck: A widely-used yet highly obscene human swear that has equal prominence in wasp swearing. It has connotations of disgust rarely found in use by humans.

Gessa: Human, lit. "unarmed." Rapidly falling out of favor as a curse, as it's mild enough to be used in a speech directed at a crowd of humans without anyone feeling spoken down to.

Get: Tacky or slutty clothing, lit. "spider silk."

Ili bek: Little stinger. Term for a human's penis. "Ili" more literally means "insignificant."

Leta: Wasp equivalent of "cold-hearted bitch." Literally "spider skin." Can be used quite subtly.

Miat: Mosquito, lit. "blood drinker." Like "demada," mild enough to be a term of endearment.

Na siada / na bek: Cripple; lit. "bent stinger." Also a direct insult to razorborn.

Ne zok: Go get eaten by a spider; lit. "Get spider-et." "Zok" is a contraction of "zenok," "to be eaten by a spider."

Nello obot: Scorpion shit. Rude wasp equivalent of terms like "hen's teeth."

Sex bela wu: Something not worth talking about, literally "sex type thing." Not something you say in polite society.

Shaak: Bullshit. Also a non-curse term for a spider's human form.

Siita: Sperm, lit. "spider venom." Also a catch-all term for anything too disgusting or toxic to touch. As with "ya," the only non-offensive equivalent is a lengthy euphemism, "ereh olo omed" ("seed planted by human").

Sio iida: Cockroach, lit. "grub mother." Can be rude, but theoretically a term of endearment. As cockroaches are sacred, though, it's taken much worse by humans and sensitive cockroaches than it really is in wasptongue.

Sio saag: Literally "cunt grub." A term for humans, cockroaches, or mosquitoes, as they give live birth; also a term describing their offspring. Exactly as bad as it sounds.

Ubi ubi: Masturbation, lit. "belly rubbing." Not quite a swear, but an easy and common double entendre.

Uta: Spider. Normally not a swear word, but as spiders are wasps' racial enemy, it can be quickly turned into a curse.

Ya: Whore. The wasp equivalent of words like "nigger," a term that's not only obscene but dehumanizing. Notably, there is no "polite" term for whore other than ungainly euphemistic constructs, e.g. "eno anei" or "bed girl" (from "eno illis uv anei vellik," "girl who sleeps on many beds").

Ya saag: Whore's cunt. The only wasp-swear worse than "eso ya."

Ya vok: Whore's tits. Common "five pound swear," a la "motherfucker."

Zek: Club. Crude term for a wasp with a blunt stinger, which cannot be used to reproduce. Guaranteed to set off wasps with short triggers.