porca miseria

Italian

2/5 · Coarse

What it means

Exclamation of frustration, roughly damn it.

Literally “pig misery”. Short editorial gloss; not an etymological claim.

Pronunciation Heard as “porka mee zair ya”

Heard aliases are retrieval hints, not pronunciation instruction. Accent, tone, vowel length and consonant contrasts may be lost.

Used as Exclamation
How it's used

Milder than explicit sexual or religious curses.

How strong is it? 2/5 · Coarse

Milder than explicit sexual or religious curses. Ratings are editorial estimates, not universal or survey-calibrated.

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