Hello 🙂 I bought this back in Sofia and my Bulgarian girlfriend doesn’t understand the meaning/joke. Can anyone help? Thank you :))

by TerribleItem9443

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  2. Attention!

    Electricity “beats”!

    It’s a high voltage tag.

  3. I also don’t really understand it and I am from bulgaria.

    As far as I know, the “maa” part is a slang for “hit” or “beat” and “ток” is electricity/voltage, so the literal meaning would be an alert that you might get electrocuted.

    That’s also clear by the the red lighting symbol — international symbol/warning for high voltage.

    ~~However, not sure how the cat is related. Maybe they are trying to say that “maa” could sound like “meow” and thus a cat sound, but that’s really just a guess by me.~~

    EDIT: by reading other comments, it seems like the cat part could come from the word “мачок” (machok) which is a slang for “cat”

  5. Maa is a weird word. It means something like “go through forcefully and carelessly”. Like if you’re chugging beers down, you’d say “maam biri”. Or if you’re smacking someone across the face, you’d say “maam po mutsunata”. It could also mean “swing around”, as in “dyadoto maa s bastuna” – the grandpa is swinging his cane. Tok means electricity. So in this case, it means “Warning! Electricity smacks you” or “electricity is swinging/running around”. At least that’s how I understand it. I have no idea about the cats.

  7. (sorry for not answering the question but) I noticed this symbol is EVERYWHERE in Bulgaria, I think it’s standardised.

  8. Не, не може да ти се обясни. Закривай няма нужда да губим време

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