pain in the ass

pain in the ass

English

Alternative forms

• pain in the arse (UK), pain in one's ass, pain in one's arse (UK)
• PITA (acronym)

Noun

pain in the ass (plural pains in the ass)

1. (vulgar) Something or someone that causes discomfort or frustration.

Synonyms

• pain in the back
• pain in the backside
• pain in the bum
• pain in the butt
• pain in the keister
• pain in the neck
• pain in the rear

 

Translations

something that causes discomfort

Arabic: أَلَم فِي الْمُؤَخَّرَة‎ (ʾalam fī l-muʾaḵḵara) Bashkir: мәшәҡәт (mäşäqät) Catalan: gra al cul m Chinese: Mandarin: 眼中钉 (zh) Czech: vopruz m, otrava (cs) m, prudič (cs) m, osina v zadku f, opruz m Finnish: riesa (fi), maanvaiva, kiusanhenki, kiusankappale (fi), piikki lihassa (fi) French: casse-pied (fr) m or f, emmerde (fr) f (thing), emmerdeur (fr) m (person), épine au pied (fr), pète-couilles m, pète-burnes m Galician: gran no cu m, foda (gl) f German: Nervensäge (de) f Hebrew: קוץ בתחת‎ m (qots ba-'tahat) Hungarian: (approx.) púp a hátán, nyűg (hu), agyára megy, idegeire megy Italian: seccatura (it), rompicoglioni (it) m, scocciatore (it) m, palo in culo m (pole in the ass), rompipalle (it), seccatore (it) m Persian: دردسر‎ (fa) (dardesar) Polish: wrzód na tyłku, wrzód na dupie (pl) Portuguese: pé-no-saco Russian: головна́я боль (ru) f (golovnája bolʹ) (headache), (colloquial, lit.: "hemorrhoid") геморро́й (ru) m (gemorrój) (lit.: hemorroids), зану́да (ru) m or f (zanúda) (of a person), зано́за в за́днице f (zanóza v zádnice) (splinter in the butt) Serbo-Croatian: gnjavaža (sh) f Spanish: patada en las bolas, patada en los huevos, coñazo (es), grano en el culo

See also

• proctalgia (medical registers, literal meaning)
• royal pain