Dutch Compliments

I learned a phrase—meant as a compliment—that is the English equivalent of: you odd nose blower. They are a direct people (if they weren’t the country would be flooded), far removed from romance. Calling someone an ass or little shit is an endearment in Dutch. An insult runs more along the lines of: “aso,” (meaning asocial, you're outside social mores) or if something sucks, you say it’s “a ball sack" i.e. a scrotum, which seems to have universal associations.