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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:
WinnieTheWhat · 19/07/2025 21:32

Did you come down with the dew?

Are your ears painted on?

Why are you sitting there like Piffy on a rock bun?

MyUmberSeal · 19/07/2025 21:33

Dunce

BraveStarr · 19/07/2025 21:34

Oaf
buffoon

Frostiesflakes · 19/07/2025 21:34

I haven’t heard wanker for a long time 😂

ThatAgileLimeCat · 19/07/2025 21:35

Knobhead
Wally
Div

MyUmberSeal · 19/07/2025 21:36

SusanSHelit · 19/07/2025 21:02

Gormless

Fuckwit

Meff

Bag head

Window licker

Window licker 🤣🤣. I’ve not heard that in years.

Warmhandscoldheart · 19/07/2025 21:36

'All fur coat and no knickers' was my Grandma's favourite

AlecTrevelyan006 · 19/07/2025 21:37

Der Brain

Brendahollowayreconsider · 19/07/2025 21:37

I recognise all the Scots ones some of the other regional ones are a bit of a mystery but fun trying to work them out.
What's a piffy sitting on a rock bin?

BeyondMyWits · 19/07/2025 21:37

I liked the sandwich short of a picnic, not the sharpest tool in the shed type insults that seemed to be used by everyone's grandad...

Gormless barmpot was a good one when someone was just being an idiot.

Moonlanding2023 · 19/07/2025 21:37

Blithering imbecile

cannyvalley · 19/07/2025 21:38

Wally

Holzy91 · 19/07/2025 21:39

ImAPreMadonna · 19/07/2025 20:33

Ratfink.

My mum used to call me this when I was really small and doing something I shouldn’t usually with a half smile as I’d be doing something like climbing or messing with something I shouldn’t ! She now calls my two year old this. I like it, in offensive but we all know what it means!

” you little ratfink”

also
“toad” when being cheeky or naughty or
“toad of toad hall “when being the worst toddler!

gracielooloo · 19/07/2025 21:40

Shut yir puss! (Still use it regularly though!)

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 21:40

Lend me your face to go ratting.
Dimson.
Twonk.
He/She's nowt to look at, got a face like a Trent Otter.
You turkey.

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/07/2025 21:42

Got a face that could haunt a house.

Frostiesflakes · 19/07/2025 21:42

cadger
minger
face like a slapped arse

Cherrysoup · 19/07/2025 21:42

CaptainFuture · 19/07/2025 20:39

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

I remember explaining this to mates in the pub when living in France. They remain bewildered.

BlueEyedBogWitch · 19/07/2025 21:42

My dad used to say people were “lame under the cap” if he thought they were a bit stupid.

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 21:43

Son of a motherless goat.

Cherrysoup · 19/07/2025 21:43

Eastendboysandwestendgirls · 19/07/2025 21:07

That refers derogatively to a young man with severe cerebral palsy who was on Blue Peter a few times in the 80s.

This was used during my childhood to mean somebody with no friends. Haven’t heard it for many years.

Brendahollowayreconsider · 19/07/2025 21:43

gracielooloo · 19/07/2025 21:40

Shut yir puss! (Still use it regularly though!)

Dundee if I'm not mistaken

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 19/07/2025 21:44

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/07/2025 21:42

Got a face that could haunt a house.

😂

hopspot · 19/07/2025 21:45

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 21:43

Son of a motherless goat.

The Three Amigo’s!

TheodoraCrumpet · 19/07/2025 21:46

Silly chump.

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