shlyukha, kurva, shalava

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Kim Braithwaite wrote:

> A modest addition to slang uses of the word bitch:
> 
> In situations of hierarchy in some bureaucracy, corporate office, street 
> gang, or whatever - subject to change when there is jockeying for power 
> - "bitch" may refer to someone (X) who is subservient to, under the 
> thumb of someone else (Y). Unless X is by nature a lickspittle, he/she 
> probably doesn't like it - there is a note of menace - while Y glories 
> in it. Y might say "You're my bitch," meaning X has to give in, do as 
> he/she is ordered to, act the slavey or lackey as it were. If the 
> relationship is not that blatant, and is even voluntary on X's part, and 
> Y doesn't actually use such a phrase, the associates of X and Y might 
> snicker among themselves and refer to X as "Y's bitch." Or, on the other 
> side, X might say defensively "I'm nobody's bitch!"
> 
> Clearly this usage is ultimately of misogynistic origin, but I'll leave 
> it at that. Someone who is fluent in hip-hop/gangsta rap may have more 
> to say on the matter.

Well, that's not my background, but I understand this usage is also 
prevalent in prison slang -- a prisoner under the domination of another, 
especially sexual domination. That may have been the source for the rap 
usage.

-- 
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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