The mysterious depths of prison jargon sometimes plunge ordinary people into bewilderment. The expression "wearing a hat on a buch" is recognized as an insult solely by the intonation and facial expressions of the person who throws this phrase in his face. Apparently, this is a very serious insult, because as a response gesture, the opponent can go on to cause physical injuries without warning. What is it about, and why such a reaction?
What does it mean to wear a hat on a buch?
First of all, it is worth remembering that we are talking about the so-called hairdryer, that is, about criminal jargon. This is a specific slang in which there are many ambiguous expressions and gradations of insult.
"Wearing a hat on a buch" means having homosexual contacts in a subordinate passive position. Passive homosexuals are the most despised and disenfranchised caste in places of deprivation of liberty, so that the violent reaction immediately becomes clear. "Butch" is the name of a maximum security colony in the Kiev region, but in this case, most likely, the second meaning is meant - the crest of a rooster. Namely roosters are called omitted.
Why a hat? There is an opinion that a penis is called a hat. Perhaps, due to the distant similarity of the head with the mushroom cap, an exact definition is impossible to find.
Prison slang
Why is Fenya so popular outside the prison walls, whence expressions like “wear a hat on a bucha” creep out into the ordinary world? At the end of the last century, in the dashing nineties, the appearance of the criminal as a kind of knight was romanticized without fear and reproach, to which the devil himself was not a brother. Book shelves filled with cheap novels about prison orders, song criminal lyrics rushed from every window. It is very difficult in such a dense stream to remain unaware of criminal jargon. It is not surprising that if someone says “he wore a hat on a bucket”, which means “he was in the pariah zone”, then there immediately appears a feeling of rejection, especially if the audience had some kind of prison past.