Adam Sharp: THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Netherlands vs Turkey 🇳🇱 A slang Dutch name for a wimp or a coward is papkindje, or “porridge kid” vs 🇹🇷 A Turkish equivalent is muhallebi çocuğu. It means “child of pudding.” Or, if you prefer, you could translate it as “custard boy”

THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Netherlands vs Turkey 🇳🇱 A slang Dutch name for a wimp or a coward is papkindje, or “porridge kid” vs 🇹🇷 A Turkish equivalent is muhallebi çocuğu. It means “child of pudding.” Or, if you prefer, you could translate it as “custard boy”

🇹🇷 A Turkish word for a thingamajig is a “zamazingo” vs 🇳🇱 My favourite Dutch word for a whatchamacallit (or, more commonly, a whatsisface) is “huppeldepup”

🇳🇱 A Dutch way of saying “six of one, half a dozen of the other” translates to “lead instead of old iron” vs 🇹🇷 A Turkish equivalent is “the dark blue version of the same shit”

I would translate oud ijzer as “scrap iron”

I'm fluent (almost native) in Turkish and have never heard of zamazingo

While some sites say thingummy, several say...

I lived in Turkey for 15 years, my wife is Turkish, I speak fluent Turkish and have never heard it used even once

Oh I like 'custard boy'! "What are you, a custard boy? Come over here and fight!"

So both cultures are basically saying "the kid's soft" 😄 Which, in the New England region of the US, we simply say with that word With the local accents, it comes out anywhere from "sohft" to "saawwft" to "saaahhfft"

🇫🇮 In Finnish a wimp or a coward is vellihousu, or "pap pants"

Turkish win.

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