The Color Uploaded Dictionary of Turkish Slang — Frikik (Free Kick)
Our Off-Color Dictionary started when our Turkish nephew, Yanki, suggested (in 1996) that we prepare a page with the most heard usage words of the Turkish language. If we omit them, he warned, our coverage of ‘Practical Turkish’ would be incomplete. How could Turkish language students get by, he insisted, without a basic understanding of profanity and everyday Turkish slang?
And so he convinced us that you can never have a complete idea of a language unless you’re familiar with its bawdy jargon. (This is especially true in a language like Turkish, in which off-color words can blend into ‘polite’ everyday speech, without flinching. The word boktan first comes to mind, for example.)
And here’s one of our favorite raunchy Turkish colloquialisms…
Like a sapling of geekthere’s also:
Y
bed. take a free kick
Illustrative examples:
Hülya Avsar is a favorite Turkish female star of stage, screen and television. In addition to being nice, talented, and pretty, she’s… Hmm…sexy, which multiplies her legion of admirers. Y Hülya’s freaky ‘mischief’ inspire her celebrity sisters, who emulate her, on purpose.
So when actress and model Hande Ataizi started missing out on celebrity headlines, she decided to take action, the fastest way she knew how. -mini dress- and on leaving the bar stage to return home, she gave the photographers what they described as “The Frikik (free kick) of the year!“