interjection/ta.baʁ.nak/
An expletive and intensifier for all purposes.
“Non, non, c'est juste une joke. Garde-lé, ton vingt piastres. C't'une tabarnak de gang de fous: j'ai les poches pleines. M'a te dire rien qu'une affaire: tu l'as en tabarnak ! Non, non, c'est vrai. T'es correct, toé.” — No, no, I was just joking. Keep it, your twenty bucks. They're all a fuckin' bunch of idiots: my pockets are full. Lemme tell ya something: you fuckin' have it! No, no, it's true: you're quite good, you.
Synonyms: câlisse, crisse, ostie
Originally a Quebec eye-dialect spelling of tabernacle. As with other sacres, the semantic shift occurred due to the taboos surrounding blasphemy in predominantly Catholic Quebec.