"hey, shitbird"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:11 (fifteen years ago)
"your top hat is shabby"
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:13 (fifteen years ago)
that's beyond endangered, that's extinct!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:15 (fifteen years ago)
Poltroon, blackguard, rapscallion...
― are you robot? (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:17 (fifteen years ago)
i struggle with concepts :(
can't think of any endangered insults off the top of my head. dork/doofus? maybe they only seem that way cos 11 year olds use them?
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:18 (fifteen years ago)
Scurvy knave.
― the too encumbered madman (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:19 (fifteen years ago)
popinjay
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:20 (fifteen years ago)
"Bugger" is a busted flush these days
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:20 (fifteen years ago)
no way!
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)
Aye, sad to report
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)
popinjayScurvy knavePoltroonblackguardrapscallion
c'mon these are all extinct
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:23 (fifteen years ago)
dickwad
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:23 (fifteen years ago)
Hound
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)
herb
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)
perpetrator
sellout
"hey. yeah you, peckerwood"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/18/usa.iraq/print
xps
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)
"ya get me, chooch?"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)
Petit-bourgeois historicist
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)
Benny?
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:29 (fifteen years ago)
'nana.
― the too encumbered madman (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)
tomfoolery
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:37 (fifteen years ago)
"and that's when birdbrain here dropped his phone"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:38 (fifteen years ago)
"hey FATTY"
Joey?
― Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)
http://ui06.gamespot.com/1157/edfurlong2.jpgMoi, a dipshit?
― EDB, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)
Poindexter
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)
Tracer, most of what I think you mean would have to have been popular due to some kind of movie or show...? They're endangered now because it's been like 30 years since that Burger King ad ran where one kid called another kid a "herb" and that's where like everyone who's ever heard it remembers it from.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:41 (fifteen years ago)
dufus?
square
― Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:41 (fifteen years ago)
Still getting under some people's skin
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:46 (fifteen years ago)
i still use "shitbird"!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)
Pratt.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)
you cannot change?
xpost Timing!
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)
I think 'twat' now has essentially the same meaning as 'pratt' did maybe twenty years ago, but it's ruder and more phonemically pleasing. My dad still uses pratt.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:52 (fifteen years ago)
you don't get people pronouncing pratt as prott tho
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:53 (fifteen years ago)
Nerk
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
Spaz
Laurel actually when i hear "herb" i think of eth4n p4dgett!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
Chief
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
berk? pillock? (former rather than latter I think)
― the too encumbered madman (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
I don't hear many people use "git" any more except me.
― Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)
Think The Wire may have given "shitbird" a shot in the arm.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:57 (fifteen years ago)
I used git just this morning, but yes, i certainly haven't heard it much at all for a while. xpost
― the too encumbered madman (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)
Smeg head
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:59 (fifteen years ago)
"Dime Bar"
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)
"herb" is rap dude slang
― The Reverend, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:02 (fifteen years ago)
wally
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)
numbskull
― CraigG, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)
knave
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)
"sit and spin"
― ^^^that's lightweight jammin (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
and indeed swivel?
― the too encumbered madman (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)
riffing on Tom's 'spaz' - spack/spacker.
― the too encumbered madman (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:10 (fifteen years ago)
these are really not endangered in any way if ILX is anything to go by :(
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:14 (fifteen years ago)
Hmmm, right, hadn't seen them, but certainly spoken. Then again I haven't been hanging round many schoolyards since the restraining order.
― the too encumbered madman (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)
a fave of my dad's:
"shit in yer hat and punch it"
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)
Plonker
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)
What a maroon.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:19 (fifteen years ago)
spaz/spazz is used quite often on ILX, spacker not so much - though it sounds like something grimly feindish probably says in his sleep
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:19 (fifteen years ago)
deez nuts
― dan m, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:20 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, spaz still has considerably more currency than spacker amongst my friends. What do we know though, we're mostly in our 30s and past our insulting prime.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)
pissant
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)
^ pity
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)
sod
― Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:55 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Beat me to it! and yes, spazz (which I can't remember hearing on ILX, but anyways...) sounds painfully dated to my ears.
Also:
Dweeb, Dingus (was this a real thing?), knucklehead
― EDB, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:38 (fifteen years ago)
spazz used as recently as todayLet's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)
'Queerbait' was the insult of choice for boys aged 12-15 when I was growing up.
― are you robot? (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)
Gaylord
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)
numbnuts
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)
pantywaist
― ledge, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)
not really a name but:"your ass is grass"
― EDB, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)
"up yours"
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)
Fud
― calumerio, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)
wazzockprannet
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)
Please tell me "ass-hat" will go away soon.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)
quentin
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:51 (fifteen years ago)
lousecadstuff-shirt
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:51 (fifteen years ago)
tube
― ledge, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:51 (fifteen years ago)
Flid.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)
^ thought of that, didn't want to say it
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)
Div
Chris Moyles branded a BBC employee a "moronic div" just yesterday.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)
'Div' pops up in grime quite a lot as well.
I stand corrected. What does 'div' come from anyhow?
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:54 (fifteen years ago)
Muppet
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:55 (fifteen years ago)
Div is such a great insult.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:57 (fifteen years ago)
"Nice play, Shakespeare"
― Kim, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)
pillow-biter
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)
smooth move, ex-lax
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)
Pick it out of:
Can anyone tell me the origin of the slang term 'divvy' for ...21 Mar 2007 ... Can't seem to find the answer to this online and curious about the ... Divvy is the Romany (Gypsy) word for mad or crazy. ... Don't know either ...uk.answers.yahoo.com › Society & Culture › Languages - CachedGet more discussion resultsGeordie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOrigin not known; the term has been in use more than a century. .... Divvie or divvy seems to come from the Co-op dividend, or from the two Davy lamps (the ...Derivation of the term - Geographical coverage - Vocabularyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie - Cached - Similar
Geordie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOrigin not known; the term has been in use more than a century. .... Divvie or divvy seems to come from the Co-op dividend, or from the two Davy lamps (the ...
Derivation of the term - Geographical coverage - Vocabularyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie - Cached - Similar
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)
from my childhood: "go suck an egg"
― Remedial Thug Motivation (San Te), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)
i just called my cat a 'fartsack' b/c he was wrecking something. i don't think i've said that in like 15 yrs! the 90s, they rly are back
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)
I thought div came from divot which is slang for a hairy vagina but it turns out that's only in Scotland. No-one says "divot" any more so.
- divot
2. Divot 4 thumbs up A divot is Scottish slang. It refers to the patch of grass that is a few inches wide and a few inches long that happens when you go golfing. It also looks like the patch of hair on a woman's vagina, hence the term "divot". Etymology: alteration of earlier Scots devat, from Middle English (Scots) duvat. Date: 1586. 1 Scottish : a square of turf or sodThe Scotsman came home from drinking scotch and said to his woman "come on love and show me your divot!"
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:20 (fifteen years ago)
dink, dinkus
― dude (del), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)
spazmorotter
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:56 (fifteen years ago)
spanner
burnout
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:00 (fifteen years ago)
bummer
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)
bender
Pretty much every yo mama joke ever
― EDB, Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:09 (fifteen years ago)
That's what she said.
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:05 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
Recently given a new lease of life thanks to M Night Shyamalan
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:15 (fifteen years ago)
dickweed? kind of a grade-school thing
― goole, Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:16 (fifteen years ago)
Haven't seen n00b much recently.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:17 (fifteen years ago)
knobjockey
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:21 (fifteen years ago)
scallawagsnake in the grassfloozylayaboutshmendrickchowderheadknuckle dragger
― Aimless, Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:23 (fifteen years ago)
troglodyte
― kkvgz, Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:29 (fifteen years ago)
do people still refer to one another as "fart-knocker"?
- mewling, puking, grass-green, little mooncalf- feckless, pointless, thoughtless vacancy on the face of the deep- gobbet of sputum from a drooling imbecile- squeaking mulberry- stinking pustule- impudent, impenitent, improvident coxcomb- sad-sack, vulgerian counterfeit- ill-mannered, illiterate, ill-begotten forgery- botch job from your father's loins- byblow of a rutting ratcatcher- lickspittle, lackluster, beetle-browed nonesuch- buffoon hoisted on a stick- slack water pollywog - mismade dullard- smirking enormity- simpering clod- rheumy-eyed, blunt-nosed, thick-headed, greasy-locked, jug-eared offspring of a scrofulous pi-dog - ill-clothed, big-bosomed, slack-jawed, nit-brained, sad excuse for a homunculus- putty-coloured superfluity
― Aimless, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)
arsewipe, fuckstick - in a resignation letter I wrote in 1992 (but never sent), I referred to an ex boss as "an ugly arsewipe fuckstick"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
dorkus was popular in my day
― homosexual II, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)
Aimless, you been searching through old lou-jag posts?
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)
That invective were the work of an AskADrunkite named Laureate Cibber, back in the day when AAD and ILM/ILE were on Greenspun. Those AAD archives have dissolved into electronic dust, but I found them quoted on a 2002 ILE thread.
― Aimless, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)
lou-jag is welcome to them, if they suit his puropses, I presume.
― Aimless, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:24 (fifteen years ago)
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)
I take the wall, sir. I take the wall!
― Aimless, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
Twunt
― 8 (88), Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:19 (fifteen years ago)
"shithead"
nobody really says this any more
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 September 2010 15:55 (fifteen years ago)
"shithead"nobody really says this any more --progressive cuts (Tracer Hand)
nobody really says this any more --progressive cuts (Tracer Hand)
I do. That or "shitbucket"
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)
stinker
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:01 (fifteen years ago)
feeb
― Aimless, Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)
"shithead"nobody really says this any more--progressive cuts (Tracer Hand)
I'll have to consult my Chicago Style Manual, but I'm pretty sure "shitbag" is the current standard.
― Darin, Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)
"nice move, Einstein"
― Darin, Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)
I'm pretty sure the standard is whatever "The Wire" says it is, no? Because I think that show single-handedly rescued "shithead".
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
Tried hard to make shitbird happen, too. Failed, I'd say.
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:34 (fifteen years ago)
at least five instances of 'shitbird' in the new wm. gibson book. maybe shitbird is the new frak?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)
Came here to post this.
IIRC it was used liberally in http://www.stuckinthe80s.com/image.php?productid=16644
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)
Okay not exactly an insult, but do kids still say "the dictionary definition of the word 'dude' is an elephant butt hair'"? Did they EVER say that outside of my elementary school? The intention was to make fun of kids who said "dude" all the time.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 30 September 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
"Tub o' lard"?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)
"Queerbait" was a good call. What about "queerboy"?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)
In my (Australian) school, dude=camel dick
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:09 (fifteen years ago)
In the late '80s/early '90s, that is. Fuck knows what they say now.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:10 (fifteen years ago)
remember russell brand? just kidding poltroon makes me think of tony hancock tho
― conrad, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)
xp: No shit - in Australia! How's that for cross-cultural. Far flippin' out. Where did this idea that a "dude" refers to megafaunal nether-regions come from?
― kkvgz, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)
tube seems to have fallen out of favour.
― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=index&d=4
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:54 (eleven years ago)
itt: memes, kept alive
― imago, Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:58 (eleven years ago)
http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-be-a-retarded-bird.png
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Saturday, 29 November 2014 02:01 (eleven years ago)
tick
― imago, Saturday, 29 November 2014 02:06 (eleven years ago)
schmuckdripdummyyo-yobusterbozododogooberturkey
― slam dunk, Saturday, 29 November 2014 02:17 (eleven years ago)
70s/80s favorites:
a - used to hear "no shit, sherlock" all the time, and said it a lot myself until some pissant 9th grade friend of mine shamed me out of it
b - one of my children needed the term "space cadet" explained yesterday. Incidentally, nobody says "Earth to [insert name here]" to get attention any more either. Because The Space Age Is Over.
c - I don't hear "airhead" much anymore either
d - "dildo" (people have substituted "douchebag" for the appropriate occasions)
e - "turkey" and "hot dog" were both non-cursing insults I used to hear around baseball regularly
― Vic Perry, Saturday, 29 November 2014 03:12 (eleven years ago)
flake / flakey
too bad because this is an important character trait to be able to identify and name
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Saturday, 29 November 2014 03:55 (eleven years ago)
200-year-old insults I'd revive if I could:
"But I should have thought that such a great count as you pretend to be, would have had a little more manners than to pick a quarrel before a parcel of women? But I suppose you have your own reasons for thinking it the best way!""What do you mean by that, you puppy?" said Marney."Puppy! puppy! Say that again if you dare!" cried Blake, starting up and shaking his fist almost under Marney's nose; which so terrified the female part of the company, who apprehended an immediate boxing match, that the younger ones flew out of the room.[...]"Upon my soul, I had no thoughts of any thing but a little diversion!—" said Marney, much alarmed at the enraged aspect of his antagonist."You hadn't hey?" cried the doctor, "Oh, ho! that's quite another part of speech!— but I must say, that for one man to call another a puppy, sounds in my ears like any thing but fun!"
"What do you mean by that, you puppy?" said Marney.
"Puppy! puppy! Say that again if you dare!" cried Blake, starting up and shaking his fist almost under Marney's nose; which so terrified the female part of the company, who apprehended an immediate boxing match, that the younger ones flew out of the room.
[...]
"Upon my soul, I had no thoughts of any thing but a little diversion!—" said Marney, much alarmed at the enraged aspect of his antagonist.
"You hadn't hey?" cried the doctor, "Oh, ho! that's quite another part of speech!— but I must say, that for one man to call another a puppy, sounds in my ears like any thing but fun!"
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Friday, 4 November 2016 02:55 (nine years ago)
Recently addedO'America, OOC, knack, knacker, kicks, kick down, kevin, kev, huzz, hunky-dory, hot dog down a hallway (tossing a ...)
― Treeship, Friday, 4 November 2016 03:02 (nine years ago)