Regarding obscure swear word
Hi!
I want to know what is a meaning of 아타 (아빠 타이어...)
It's from here: https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%97%A0%EC%B0%BD
It's said that this is an extinction expression but what 타이어 mean? Maybe it's stand for english "die"?
Search from various English teachers...
Answers · 4
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From http://enha.xyz/w/%EC%97%A0%EC%B0%BD
몇몇 지역 한정으로 '아타' 라는 것도 있다. 이것은 "내가 하는 이 말이 거짓말이면 우리 아버지가 타이어다" 라는 것으로 여기서 타이어는 다리를 고무튜브 같은 것으로 묶고 다리가 없는 척 하면서 길에서 바퀴 달린 널판지를 타고 기어다니며 구걸을 하는 거지를 말한다.
Here is the image
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Once, there were a lot of beggars who is/pretend to be crippled by covering their legs with rubber materials, and it seems they were mocked as a 타이어(rubber tire) by children. So 아타 will roughly translated to "Your father is crippled beggar". I honestly never heard of this expression in my whole life and I have to google it to find a bit of information.
I did occasionaly saw beggers with rubber materials few years ago, but I don't see them nowadays as if they went out of fashion or because of governement crackdowns(sometimes beggars turned out to be a wealthy people).
I'm quite certain that those swear languages are unfamiliar with most of the population here and therefore it wouldn't have any practical usages. :) good luck.
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