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Excellent insults that have fallen out of fashion / you don’t hear anymore…

476 replies

FusionChefGeoff · 19/07/2025 20:11

Twerp
Berk

I want to teach my 10 and 13 year olds some ‘funny’ insults from back in the day - any others that need resurrecting??

OP posts:
TooBusyGazingAtStarss · 19/07/2025 22:17

This is the thread I never knew I needed.

Mistyglade · 19/07/2025 22:18

MyUmberSeal · 19/07/2025 21:36

Window licker 🤣🤣. I’ve not heard that in years.

I think this was a slur on disabled children in their special school buses years ago.

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 19/07/2025 22:19

Plank
Fucknugget
Goon
Spiv (had to explain that one at work - that was a awkward conversation

echt · 19/07/2025 22:20

These excellent Australian expressions won't have fallen out of fashion in the UK because they were never in. But...

Nong

Dropkick

Both describe utterly useless people.

elliejjtiny · 19/07/2025 22:20

SprayWhiteDung · 19/07/2025 20:35

Wally
Herbert
Dingleberry

My son says "son of a dingleberry" but I don't know where he's heard that from.

SuperSange · 19/07/2025 22:20

My dad is a fan of ‘titbonce’.

Buggabootwo · 19/07/2025 22:21

Dinlo
Spanner
Wally

Waves to my fellow Pompey people!

Katbum · 19/07/2025 22:21

Plum

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 19/07/2025 22:22

thehopefulgardener · 19/07/2025 20:14

Spoon (Scotland, late 80s)

We used both spoon and spanner in lancs in the late 80's

Buggabootwo · 19/07/2025 22:22

And my late Granny referred to my gay pal as “a little light on his loafers”. That one has stuck!

SprayWhiteDung · 19/07/2025 22:22

You big Jessy!

Showing my age here, but we sometimes said that somebody was two Green Shield stamps short of a pop-up toaster.

Mistyglade · 19/07/2025 22:22

Face like a melted welly or face like a brick wall

BeyondMyWits · 19/07/2025 22:22

Needlenardlenoo · 19/07/2025 22:08

Fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

Toerag.

Lol... we had "he was hit with the ugly stick" (pause) "on multiple occasions"

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 22:22

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 19/07/2025 22:22

We used both spoon and spanner in lancs in the late 80's

My scouse ex called people a spanner, div and twonk.

LivelyMintViper · 19/07/2025 22:23

Soppy date

deeahgwitch · 19/07/2025 22:23

A right gobaluther.
Meaning a total idiot or an awful eejit.

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 22:23

Mistyglade · 19/07/2025 22:22

Face like a melted welly or face like a brick wall

Edited

I've heard face like a melted monkey.

ScruffMuffin · 19/07/2025 22:23

Twonk.
It still makes me giggle.

mrlistersgelfbride · 19/07/2025 22:24

‘Couldn’t find his arse with both hands’ 🤣
about men who aren’t that bright.

Dozy ha’porth

Wazzock

Dumb jerk

littlemissunicorn · 19/07/2025 22:24

some of my favourites:
nincompoop
mong
knob jockey
munter
cock womble
trollop
dick wad
Pillock

LancashireButterPie · 19/07/2025 22:25

Pillock.
Old trout.
Dipstick.

TaborlinTheGreat · 19/07/2025 22:25

Chump
Nana
Goon
Wally

Namechangerage · 19/07/2025 22:26

Nitwit

Namechangerage · 19/07/2025 22:26

Plonker

ToWhitToWhoo · 19/07/2025 22:26

Prat

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