borowik

The word is used in two senses:

1) a young person who is weak in some game

2) (contemptuously) a person who is low in the social hierarchy.

The slang word has been known since at least 2017, for at that time the Miejski.pl dictionary published the entry borowik, explaining that it is a term “popularized by Rafonix. It describes a person who fits low in the social hierarchy, with nothing to offer” (https://www.miejski.pl/slowo-Borowik; accessed 8.07.2023). Previously, it appeared in the vernacular as a humorous term for officers of the BOR (Government Security Office).

2^nd meaning of the word borowik. appeared in the following excerpt from Rafonix’s song Freestyle:

(…) I don’t give a damn about the district officer because he’s a dick fucked since morning

So I don’t give a fuck about that borowik

Let him greet me here at six o’clock

I won’t open him (…) (https://www.tekstowo.pl/piosenka,rafonix,rafonix___freestyle.html; accessed 8.07.2023), and also in the lyrics of the song Wykopki borowiki:

(…) He will kill no? He is a fucking nobody, a fucking borowik, Borowik he is! He is a fucking nobody, he is a borowik, I will kill him, You think I don’t know what you fucking talked about me for 4-3 days? (…) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJTLp60YFLQ; accessed 8.07.2023)

The entry posted in 2021 in Miejski.pl includes both the basic form of the word described, i.e. borowik, and its derivative boro, formed as a result of backward derivation, or more precisely, mutilation. From the dictionary we learn that borowik, boro means that someone does not know how to do something (https://www.miejski.pl/slowo-Borowik%2CBoro; accessed 8.07.2023). It seems that this assessment usually refers to a low level of media and digital competence.

Example of usage:

1. oh come on, unblock me on the group buddy 😃 because some borowik blocked me probably for nothing 😃 /https://www.facebook.com/RafonixOfficialFanPage/posts/dzieki-za-streama/970458593106153/;

2. well I don’t know, if I can play on the front lines, work, and have a higher education then I guess I’m better set in life than some borowik from the backroom, so you have to consider who is who. The one who can afford to play at the front, or the one who barks in the back office / https://forum.plemiona.pl/index.php?threads/dyskusja-o-sytuacji-na-%C5%9Bwiecie-182.129641/page-291#post-2769379;

3. well borowik gave poor info back then, but freeze was badass yesterday [discussion of the world situation] / https://forum.plemiona.pl/index.php?search/333612/&q=borowik&o=date

4. fuck off you old whore borowik 50 kg / https://e-grajewo.pl/forum-topic,19581.html.