I don't see the word nobhead so I consider it inaccurate
Maybe they didn’t know the origin of berk (Berkeley Hunt in Cockney rhyming slang)…
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Prat Div Twit Twerp Smeghead
Are some other mild ones that I don't really hear anymore
Smeghead
I don't disagree, but it's difficult explaining to Americans how "you have a head consisting of the congealed semen and other matter scraped from underneath someone's foreskin" is only a mild insult.
Particularly when with a decent proportion of them, you first have to explain what a foreskin is.
wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. smeg is an actual word. its not just from red dwarf???
Well "smeg" is just from Red Dwarf but "smegma" is an actual word, and that's where they got the word from. They needed a futuristic swear word - Lister can't be someone who doesn't swear, but this was 1980s BBC - and they came up with that.
still. I was not even aware of its root word connotation. thanks for the insight.
Pillock and plonker are rude, meaning cock either way, but it’s kind of archaic and lost the emphasis. Berk on the other hand is full on rude, but used lightly compared to its direct translation from rhyming slang
Is dipstick a british thing? I've heard it plenty in america. The rest are definitely foreign to me.
Came in to say the same thing. Dipstick is probably the first insult I learned.
What melt made this list?
Where does wanker fall? Is it a curse word?
It was considered a swear word, but fairly mild.
I think of it as more of a vocation.
A hobby, if you will.
Avocation to be more precise.
Ain't no one payin' us...
Irish list if you want to take it from us like you took everything else from us
- Gom : mostly harmless fool
- Pleidhce (ply-kah) : unserious fool
- Eejit : idiot, but nice
- Jackeen : a waver of miniature union jacks
- Gom(b)ee(n) : a mostly harmless fool who is also small either in stature or importance.
- Mog: a backwards gom
- Headwreck : annoying, frustrating
- The Notions on him/her/them/etc : someone with a grand personal image
- Gowl : (a junction, specifically that between your legs)
- Langer (long story, TLDR don't shoot monkeys)
Edit: Lemmy markdown doesn't let you count down but as a lazy half-arsed Irish stereotype I'm not fixing it
Is it the Scots that often say "you absolute gowl" or do they use a similar word to that?
I haven't heard of that but given that Scottish Gaelic is pretty much just a dialect of Gaeilge, it's possible. Although as an insult its more common in Munster which is at the least-related end of the dialect scale from Scottish.
I need some of these phonetically. Also eijit sounds like something very common to like hillbilly type talk from the us. Also I totally need something to use for flag wavers in general. Stupid showy nationalism instead of caring about the true core good philosophies around the best of a society.
Would knobhead be without cursing? From my understanding, "knob" is basically the same as "dick."
Knobhead is a mild swearword. Although knob means penis, it's one of the milder words for it (maybe one step worse than "willy" or "todger").
Note that wazzock, pillock, dipstick and plonker are all, at some place and point in time, also words for penis.
I prefer ‘helmet’ myself.
or bellend, haven't hear that in a while though
Bulb
Yeah, I wouldn't allow it, personally. I find it's a bit of a weird one, like "pussy" - i.e. ruder than it should be, given that you can read the word in children's books.
A wizard's staff has a knob on the end
Isn't knob the one on the doors?
- Melt
- Helmet
- Weapon
- Prat
- Git
- Gimboid/Smeghead
- Divvy
- Pudding
- Bute
- Nincompoop
- Twunt
Are some others. The first three are personal favourites.
Pudding is an insult?
Yep. I don't think it would work if you pronounced the 'g', though. You great puddin, ye. Bit old fashioned but it checks out.
Could have included git as well.
Unfortunately this list is proprietary.
Why does this read like a pip requirements.txt?
Thank you, Only Fools and Horses, for introducing me to plonker and wally!
Rodney you plonker!
TIL that wazzock is a British word. I've only heard it as a Dwarfish word in Warhammer universe.
Warhammer is made by a British company headquartered in Nottingham, where wazzock is a common local phrase that is believed to have originated a bit further north
Now I'm Im curious if any other words from this list https://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Khazalid_lexicon are actually British English words?
Skree or scree is a real word for loose rocks on the side of a hill.
Also grim to describe harsh, we would say "its grim up north".
The rest are quite possibly a mix of old english/norse and also seems like there might be some asiatic in there like "kuri"
On that list i'd say chuff, git and skruff
It's an excellent word, a favourite of mine
Bellend
Lemon
Very location specific but I enjoy dinlo
How about "Prick"
I need to save this.
Mug needs to be #1
Twunt