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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??

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BernardButlersBra · 19/07/2025 21:47

soupyspoon · 19/07/2025 20:21

Little scroat

The police still love this and dole it out!

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/07/2025 21:48

You're so ugly even the tide wouldn't take you out.

Elderflower14 · 19/07/2025 21:48

My Great Aunt Lizzy died at 106...
She called women who were keen on men "fast pieces."
She trained as a nurse in the
1920s. She didn't like her Matron and called her "A spiteful cat!"
She was an absolute legend.. Her half sister who was 18 years younger looked after her. Lizzy was blind towards the end and had talking books. Her sister banned thrillers and murder mysteries at bedtime as she got excited and wouldn't go to sleep.
She could remember the Peasenhall Murder en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasenhall murder and used to love talking about it..

BernardButlersBra · 19/07/2025 21:48

Iamblossom · 19/07/2025 20:29

Bell End

This a favourite of l mine l have used continuously. Normally they are a fucking bellend though

Cherrysoup · 19/07/2025 21:49

My dad, on seeing 2 people who were together and perhaps not the prettiest, used to say ‘Would be a shame to spoil 2 houses’. He was the opposite of politically correct.

Spud is an affectionate insult that my DH uses to describe the dogs when they do something silly.

cupfinalchaos · 19/07/2025 21:49

SquishedMallow · 19/07/2025 20:16

I love 'Berk '😂 I think my mum called me it many -a-time (back in the 90s when mothers loved hurling a low level insult ! 😅)

Like the “Carry On” quip.. Her name was Berk.. married a Wright.. became a Wright Berk!!

Whatareyoutalkingaboutnow · 19/07/2025 21:51

TwistedKeys · 19/07/2025 21:22

Gobshite.

My favourite, I use it liberally.

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 21:53

@Elderflower14 My grandma used to call them "a warm cup of tea"!

Ttcpph · 19/07/2025 21:53

ProfYaffle · 19/07/2025 20:22

One of my Mum's "she's a face'd stand clogging" meaning the person in question could be hit in the face with a clog and wouldn't look any different.

This one has really tickled me - it's the best of them all 💀😂

NooNakedJacuzziness · 19/07/2025 21:53

Jitter

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/07/2025 21:54

Away and take yer face fur a shite

moto748e · 19/07/2025 21:54

JamesWebbSpaceTelescope · 19/07/2025 20:16

Do you think your DC would appreciate the rhyming slang for Berk - Berkshire Hunt rhymes with ….

Every day's a school day!

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 21:55

Shut your cake hole.
Shut your gob and give your arse a chance.

EastGrinstead · 19/07/2025 21:55

One I heard from an Irish colleague, "Scarlet for you, scarlah for your ma for having you"

Flomingho · 19/07/2025 21:55

MNpenisadvisor · 19/07/2025 20:20

Ragamuffin

Still like using this now!

CaveMum · 19/07/2025 21:55

Smeghead (for all the Red Dwarf fans)

Not really an insult, but I do love to use “Don’t you have an elsewhere to be?” as an alternative to Sod Off! (One for the Buffy fans)

Flomingho · 19/07/2025 21:56

Iamblossom · 19/07/2025 20:29

Bell End

Use this one on a daily basis🤣

Tangfastic71 · 19/07/2025 21:57

Dont be such a gimp
She’s really Aggy

momager1 · 19/07/2025 21:58

SusanSHelit · 19/07/2025 21:02

Gormless

Fuckwit

Meff

Bag head

Window licker

omg. window licker is my grandsons pet name from his papa (my husband) Many years ago when he was around 4ish , I watched my grandkids often as they lived next door and I was the default babysitter. It was Canada , winters cold. We had screen doors that during the summer the main door was open, then the screen door outside of that, so no flies or mozzies get in but air thru the house. Winter the screen was replaced with a glass panel. My lovely dogs (rip our Lexi and your crazy son Seamus) would head to the door every day about five min before my husband was due home and I would always open the main door and let the dogs watch for him. Warm house , cold glass made frost and the dogs would lick . My husband arrived home one afternoon to see two big black standard poodles, and in the middle a four year old boy. All licking the window. My grandson is turning 16, his papa still calls him window licker. Thanks for that reminder as I am missing them alot right now

Robin67 · 19/07/2025 21:58

This is a phrase not a word, but I once heard a Sgt say to a squaddie "what does your village do for an idiot when you go on holiday?"

Elderflower14 · 19/07/2025 21:59

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 21:53

@Elderflower14 My grandma used to call them "a warm cup of tea"!

Which one?

ToWhitToWhoo · 19/07/2025 21:59

Nit.

Dope.

Velmy · 19/07/2025 21:59

I never hear anyone use 'Dickhead' anymore.

Also a big fan of the term 'Bedwetter' 😅

MyDadWasAnArse · 19/07/2025 21:59

Elderflower14 · 19/07/2025 21:59

Which one?

Women who'd had a varied love life!

suburburban · 19/07/2025 22:01

Baby elephant

not nice - give you something to cry about