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??

I use the term “halfwit”a lot. Not sure if it’s gone out of fashion but it’s so appropriate much of the time.

Schemie ( it was a derogatory term referring to someone who’s common and lives on a housing scheme).

Numpty
He's a hatstand - I think this came from the phrase "not just a hatstand", but it works the other way too.

Charmless nerk. Often used by Norman Stanley Fletcher (played by Ronnie Barker) on Porridge. 😜

Bell End

Pillock
Digbat
Twerp

Knob-Stick

Muppet

Ratfink.

I say this all the time 😂

That's the opposite of an insult, though, isn't it - calling somebody very intelligent?!

Blockhead.
Ninny.
Turkey.

Wally
Herbert
Dingleberry

Doofus

When said with the appropriate level of disdain, piss-taking and/or eye roll, it was definitely an insult at school in the 90s/00s!

Plank

And this is quite possibly unique to my Year 9 German class, but kartoffelkopf

Boffin was often used as a school insult, like “teacher’s pet”.

Nitwit is another good one.

Dweeb

Plonker, as in ‘ What a plonker!’.

Dinlo

Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries...

Twat - where I grew up, it was considered a mild term of abuse. Maybe not one to teach the young ‘uns though!

Rapscallion

Loving wassock - my brother and I used to exchange that one regularly!!