“Vittu is an ancient word for the female genitalia but now has the literal meaning of “cunt”. Linguistically, it is used similar to how ‘fuck’ is used in English to add force to a statement or express frustration. Often considered extremely profane, its usage is nowadays not only limited to teenager slang, but is often used as an emphasis in a forceful or frustrated utterance or expression, as inmitä vittua? “what the fuck?”. Other common phrases with vittu include voi vittu(“Oh fuck”), (ja) vitut! (“The fuck you say!” / “Bullshit!”, lit. “(and) fucks”); haista vittu (“fuck you!”, lit. “(go) smell (a) cunt”; painu (hevon) vittuun (“go to (horse’s) cunt”); olla naama norsun vitulla, (lit. “to have one’s face like the elephant’s cunt”, meaning to be sour and unfriendly).

Entire sentences can be constructed using these combinations “Vittu, vituttaa niin vitusti” (Fuck, I’m so fucking pissed) etc. Occasionally, one hears more colorful constructions, such as Vittujen kevät ja kyrpien takatalvi! (paraphrased, “Oh fucking shit!” or literally “The spring of cunts and the late winter of dicks!”). Notably, vittu is also used as an energetic mood, as in “vitun iso” (“fucking big”) or “Mä meen vittu sinne” (“I’m (really) fucking going there”) or to declare a negative outcome, as in meni vituiksi (“(smth.) went fucked”). Similar-soundingeuphemistic replacements include hitto (see above), vitsi or hitsi. Also kettu(“fox”) is often used as a replacement word due to its rhyming with vittu. Several verbs and adjectives have also been derived from vittu: vituttaa literally means “to want/need pussy”, though the meaning of it is actually something like “to feel angry and depressed”, vittuuntua “to get pissed”, vittumainen an adjective for “unpleasant and annoying”. In more polite conversation these derivations can be done from the euphemism kettu: ketuttaa, kettumainen etc. The other euphemisms mentioned above cannot be used to form such derivations. Vittu is commonly combined with other profanities, as in vittusaatana and vittuperkele.”