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 love ‘git’ and use it at every possible opportunity.

I use numpty all the time, I hadn't noticed it isn't widely used but many of these take me right back in time so I realise it must be the same and I've just not noticed!

Muppet, dingbat, wally... brilliant.
Twerp has a fab quality to the word - I am inspired to bring it back to my vocabulary.
Dweeb as well.

Many words could follow 'you big...' and be a mild insult. Eg, lemon, banana.

I will say I was about 25 before I realised that twat was not just another way to say twit.
Also plenty of common insults from my childhood were derived from terms we now know are or now consider really offensive so just be careful you know where it comes from I guess!

Df called his dB , scrote all the time

‘’Face like a melted welly’’ is a personal favourite of mine, although I think it’s cruel and would never say it, it is funny 😂

and

‘’if you were any thicker, you’d set’’

Herbert

My DD used that at secondary school... Their class consisted of knuckledraggers and norms, but she "ran with the nerd-herd"

Twit
Divvy

Yes to Pillock and Plonker

Also my Swedish friend thinks all of us British folk call each other 'Sods" in a v posh accent. Ditto "Cad"

Are you from Pompey by any chance?

Squinny is another classic insult from the same area

Still popular in DH’s family!

@LateBlooms yes to banana. Except we used to say "ya narna heed" (as in Banana head)

NE England.

Sad sack

I used to say twat all the time until a small child ( 8yr old!) told me I shouldn't say that because it was 'derogatory term for a ladies vagina and so very disrespectful '
I was so embarrassed being called out by a child!

Pan Head

Divvy
Doylem
Meff

Gormless - always a favourite of mine

Knobber - some Irish colleagues introduced me to this years ago

Pie head

Baddy Harrington

Chuff monkey

Prat
Pillock
Div

Gormless

Fuckwit

Meff

Bag head

Window licker

Hallions

Wally!

@Teanbiscuits33

‘’if you were any thicker, you’d set’’

😂 That made me LOL! 😆

My nan used to call me a 'little camel' when I was naughty (1970s,) and the black country folk who worked at a place I worked at in the early 1980s used to say 'bloody cow-eyed git' if someone annoyed them.

Never heard them before or since.

Turnip
wet lettuce
bar stool
toad

Joey deacon

.a northern ireland term
Not sure if anywhere used it

I remember one Summer Evening I must have been around 14. My Dad was sat on the step with his Vodka and orange. I barge out the house little a baby elephant and knock his drink over and he calls me a fuckin gonk. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Twat and Fud are alive and kicking in Scotland, great insults