Monday, January 17, 2011

The Sweet Science

Mordaboi

Let's break this one down:  

Morda, as mentioned in a previous post, is a rude way of saying "face".

Boi means "battle" or "combat".  

Mordaboi, if translated literally, means "the application of combative intent to someone's mug", or, if we were to make sense of that, a "brawl."  

Nowadays, it's shorthand for MMA.

2 comments:

  1. There are two connective vowels for complex words in Russian: 'o' and 'e'. It's mordoboi.

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  2. And let's not forget Zamestitel' Kommandujuschego Po Morskim Delam--Tov. Zamkompomorde

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