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

[FusionChefGeoff]

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??

Yes my late fil said this

from London, only time I ever heard it

Whilst I don’t think it has fallen out of fashion, the best insult will always be ‘gobshite’. None other are needed. HTH.

My grandad used to call the woman next door a fart arse. Not because she farted, but spent so much time farting about with things.

You’re like flies on a cows backside.

Said to someone who doesn’t keep still. It was said to me years ago and I still use it. My boys have picked it up and use it too.

For a clumsy, dim-witted or generally useless person: Ye couldnae hit a coo's bahookie wi' a banjo!

Still used quite a lot

The pp I was quoting said 'Berkshire'. I think I knew somewhere in the back of my head that it wasn't quite right, but didn't remember the hunt connection. Nobody talks about hunts these days, do they?

(when looking at wedding photos in local paper)

They'd spoil another couple (ie matched well in the looks dept)

"(when looking at wedding photos in local paper)
They'd spoil another couple (ie matched well in the looks dept)"

My grandfather used to say "It would have been a shame to spoil two houses with them" but about couples with nasty argumentative temperaments not looks.

“He’s as much use as tits on a fish”

Eighteen pages and no doughnut?? Unless I've missed it... as used by the late Mike Reid on Eastenders.

Also mum and nana used to call me Fanny Ann on occasion but it was more of a nickname/affectionate term. My BF calls me Fanny Ann sometimes and I love it.

Flippertygibbet for someone who is a bit scatterbrained and flighty
Droopydraws from sooner who is a bit sloppy
Dingbat/dingy
Doughnut
Daft as a brush
Thick as two short planks

Oh yes 'daft ha' porth' was another

Flibbertygibbert was for a loose woman

And we have had doughnut

Yes and duck 😀

Chump

I like candyass, it has a little old fashioned masculine swagger which I find funny and it’s a little salty without going as far as, say, motherfucker.

Mong or Mongol - a shortening of mongloid slur for people who have Down Syndrome.

(Big) Lummox

Think it’s a Yorkshire thing

Reminds me of Paul and Pauline Calf describing two people talking shit: GOBSHITE TENNIS 😂

In Devon and Somerset, you sometimes hear, "gurt lummox".

'Pig scarer' - so ugly would scare pigs.

Not an insult as such but “have your guts for garters”!

Plonker
Imbecile

oh goodness yes - I used mong quite a bit back in the day before I realised how offensive it was

I was called Fanny Adams as a child..