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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:
MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 22:26

littlemissunicorn · 19/07/2025 22:24

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

I wouldn't say the 3rd one on the list.

Robertsmithsnan · 19/07/2025 22:26

Gawbean = useless fecker

MidnightGloria · 19/07/2025 22:27

Nimrod
Dimwit
Cad

At age 5 I thought the most hilarious insult in the world was 'two-faced poo'. I have no idea where I heard it, but delighted in repeating it. I'm sure my parents were less amused.

Brendahollowayreconsider · 19/07/2025 22:27

Mistyglade · 19/07/2025 22:18

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

It most certainly was.

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 22:27

Wankfox

ASuitableName · 19/07/2025 22:29

As slack as tripe
said of someone who isn’t very bright and hasn’t much personality

Areyouactuallyjokingme · 19/07/2025 22:31

Another past Scottish one - "Yer Da sells Avon"
and he/she's "as bright as a blackoot" 😂

Flannelfeet · 19/07/2025 22:31

thehopefulgardener · 19/07/2025 20:14

Spoon (Scotland, late 80s)

Shuttit ya spoon 😆 🤣

ElleneAsanto · 19/07/2025 22:32

Got a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp.

PollyCherry · 19/07/2025 22:33

Pillock

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 22:35

A face like a tomcat licking piss from a thistle.

Flannelfeet · 19/07/2025 22:35

Nothing but a tottieheid

BubblyBath178 · 19/07/2025 22:36

Dweeb 😂 However, since joining two D&D campaigns recently, I seem to be using it a lot more as we all refer to one another as Dweebs/Nerds 😝

Tinytimmy123 · 19/07/2025 22:36

Dickwad
A face that could turn milk
Someone's been hit with the ugly stick
When God was giving out brains he/she was at the end of the queue

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 22:37

💩 for brains.

Nachoinseachthu · 19/07/2025 22:37

Twunt from the 00s is probably too rude.

Rascal
Scallywag
Varlet
Lemon
Pillock

FastMauveQuoter · 19/07/2025 22:38

As much use as an ashtray on a motorbike.
Burking Ninny
All mouth and no trousers.
Numbskull.
Slaphead (for someone bald)

ScruffMuffin · 19/07/2025 22:38

Gob on a stick
Gobshite

Flannelfeet · 19/07/2025 22:38

Away you an raffle.
Dinny geez that pish.
Run up ma ribs

echt · 19/07/2025 22:39

My late lovely MIL would occasionally use the Geordie insult "sackless", a slack-twisted, feeble sort of person.

Mistyglade · 19/07/2025 22:41

Brendahollowayreconsider · 19/07/2025 22:27

It most certainly was.

Same as mouthbreather, old insults mocking the disabled there

LillyLeaf · 19/07/2025 22:41

IDontHateRainbows · 19/07/2025 20:12

A face only a mother could love

A face a dog wouldn't lick (my dad's fav)

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 22:43

LillyLeaf · 19/07/2025 22:41

A face a dog wouldn't lick (my dad's fav)

A guy at work matched with a woman on tinder and showed us photos of her and another colleague said she had a face like a Polish truck driver.

Mistyglade · 19/07/2025 22:45

A recent one was face like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

Charmatt · 19/07/2025 22:46

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??

Berk isn't a funny insult - it's Cockney Rhyming Slang......Berkshire Hunt!

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