Terminology

This page is a list of all of the vocabulary and terminology of the Polandball world and comics, and their origin.

Aiya!
Used by Chinaball, and sometimes Taiwanball and Hong Kongball, to express disappointment or when something wrong/bad happens.

Anschluss
Used by Germanyball and Reichtangle when taking over another country. This is displayed when the former features characteristics of the latter. It has been banned from the Polandball Reddit, though it still makes regular appearances on Facebook from time to time.

Börk
Used by Swedenball. Pretty much a meaningless word, referring to Sweden or something Swedish. It has many alternatives for other countries.

Cannot into
Poland cannot into space is a common gag. Only native anglophone countries speak with good English. Other countries "make an attempt to speak english". As for "Poland cannot into space", it means something like "Poland cannot have anything in space"; "Poland isn't a country that has a space program". A simple example could be that "Greece cannot into monies".

Clay
Land. For example, Polandball often complains to Russiaball for stealing his clay and horses.

This term originated in a [YouTube video] posted ranting against Kebab from Serbiaball's point of view. It is from the 'Remove Kebab' copypasta. The video gave Bosniaball one chance to give back Serbia's righteous clay. "stupid baby form the eggn give bak our clay we will crush u lik a skull of pig. serbia greattst countrey"

- Remove kebab copypasta

"Clay" is probably the result of a literal bad (machine) translation of the word 'land' (as in piece of land) from Serbian to English.

Gib
A strange broken English variant of 'give'. A very common phrase is 'gib clay'. (or also a form of the German verb 'geben' for 'to give sth to somebody')

Hue
Used by Brazilball. See 'huehuehue' on Know Your Meme for more information...

Remove HUE is used by Germany in reference to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

'Is of' and 'of'
There is no real explanation to this (needed). It's just some broken English. Sometimes 'of' is put in somewhat random places in sentences. 'Is of' or 'Am of' are common combinations.

Kurwa
Poland (lit. "whore")

Used by Poland to address another, unfriendly characters and to express distress.

Oy vey!
Used by Israelcube to express dismay or exasperation.

Perkele
Often used by Finlandball, considered to be the Finnish version of kurwa.

Equivalent to "the devil!" or "f*ck!" and an alternative name to a Finnish god, Ukko.

Plox
Meaning "Please".

Pay denbts
You're telling me economy exists in Europe? Outside US? Jesus, I know – and there's more depth to it than just "X owes Y moneys"…

Relevance
'Relevance' is a Polandball-specific term usually referring to (political, historical and economical) importance of a particular country. It often also refers to the size of that country.

Describing other countries as typical foods from there
Sometimes, in Polandball comics (often as an insult; i.e. remove _____) countries are referred to as typical foods from that country. This originated from calling Turkish people (and later the whole Muslim world in general) 'kebab', from the 'Remove Kebab' copypasta. Some common examples are (in alphabetical order):


 * Adobo: the Philippines
 * Baguette: France
 * Burger: United States
 * Cawl: Wales
 * Chilli Crab: Singapore
 * Couscous: Morocco and Algeria
 * Curry: India, Japan and Sri Lanka
 * Dim Sum: China. Remove Dim Sum is used by both Vietnamball and Philippinesball to protest against Chinaball's claim on the South China Sea Islands
 * Dolma: Azerbaijan
 * Fish and Fungi: Virgin Islands
 * Gefilte Fish: Israel
 * Goulash: Hungary
 * Haggis: Scotland
 * Kabsa: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
 * Harissa: Armenia
 * Kebab: Muslims, though it in many cases refers specifically to Turkey. Serbiaball and Armeniaball on a constant quest to kill kebab and remove them from their countries.
 * Nasi Lemak: Malaysia
 * Nihari: Pakistan
 * Noodle: China
 * Paella: Spain
 * Pasta: Italy
 * Pho: Vietnam
 * Pierogi: Poland and Catholics
 * Poutine: Canada
 * Rosbif: United Kingdom
 * Sate: Indonesia
 * Sauerkraut: Germany
 * Sausage: Austria
 * Schnitzel: Austria
 * Sushi: Japan
 * Taco: México
 * Tom Yum: Thailand

Putting 'make' in front of verbs
Sometimes, 'make' is put in front of verbs (often with '-ings' or '-s' at the end).

Stronk
Simply a strange pronunciation of 'Strong' written out literally. The 'g' here is pronounced as a 'k'.