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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:
TwistedKeys · 19/07/2025 21:22

Gobshite.

MrsMoastyToasty · 19/07/2025 21:22

tawny eyed parrot faced wazzock

EastGrinstead · 19/07/2025 21:23

StormInaDcup99 · 19/07/2025 21:04

Joey deacon

.a northern ireland term
Not sure if anywhere used it

Joey Deacon was born with severe cerebral palsy and was a disability rights advocate.

Tiredbut · 19/07/2025 21:23

Queg.
Ponce.
Blurt.

Driftingawaynow · 19/07/2025 21:23

Twit

Lurkingandlearning · 19/07/2025 21:23

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??

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user1476613140 · 19/07/2025 21:23

Fud.

WinnieTheWhat · 19/07/2025 21:23

Great galah.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 19/07/2025 21:24

Apologies if someone has said this already, I haven't seen it...

I like this insult...

'I saw a loaf of bread in Sainsburys this morning, and I thought it was named after you. On closer inspection, it said 'thick cut.' 😆

MissAndrey · 19/07/2025 21:24

"You dropped your gay card" was a stone cold killer in the nineties, but not appropriate these days.

Shar270 · 19/07/2025 21:25

God i remember everyone calling each other Joey when i was a kid, I hadn't seen that episode of Blue Peter and at the time thought it was something to do with kangaroos. Awful, awful thing.

BeyondMyWits · 19/07/2025 21:25

My mums favourite was "She's all fur coat and no knickers."

Brenda34 · 19/07/2025 21:25

Donkey

TellingBone · 19/07/2025 21:26

Big girl's blouse

RedRec · 19/07/2025 21:27

You're not as green as you're cabbage looking.

user1476613140 · 19/07/2025 21:28

"Did you think I was buttoned up the back?"

Tigergirl80 · 19/07/2025 21:28

Pompous, nincompoop, you cantankerous old boot.

sleepyduvetcat · 19/07/2025 21:28

Git

Butteredtoast55 · 19/07/2025 21:28

I'm fond of 'If brains were dynamite he wouldn't have enough to blow his hat off'
I think generally nicknames used to be more imaginative - and not for the fainthearted. I was at school with someone universally known as Chloroform as he was so boring.

Allthesnowallthetime · 19/07/2025 21:29

A bad stick
A bad rascal
Hingin' aboot like a fart in a trance

Gingernaut · 19/07/2025 21:29

For someone forever talking loudly and just generally being a boor - Mighty Mouth or Mouth Almighty

user1476613140 · 19/07/2025 21:29

"Did you think I was floating up the Clyde on a banana boat?" As in, do you think I am stupid?

WinnieTheWhat · 19/07/2025 21:30

RedRec · 19/07/2025 21:27

You're not as green as you're cabbage looking.

I use this one but it’s more of a compliment wrapped in an insult really 😄

user1476613140 · 19/07/2025 21:31

Away an' boil yer head.

user1476613140 · 19/07/2025 21:32

Calm yer ham!

Was said very often when I was growing up especially in school life.