Regional insults

[CharliesAngles]

What's your favourite?

I love the word mardy.
I love shut your cake hole.

What can I add to broaden my repertoire?

Shithouse means coward here.

He wouldn't even meet me outside to fight, the absolute shithouse.

Very regionally specific but in Whitehaven the traditional insult for people from Workington was always ‘jam eaters’ - meaning they’re so poor, they couldn’t afford meat in their lunchtime sandwiches.

Naturally, the traditional insult in Workington for gadgies frae Whitevven, was… also ‘jam eaters’. You had to know the accent to work out which way the insult was going.

I’m in NE Scotland too,

Smacherie- Insulting a woman’s jewellery.
Nippy Sweetie- Someone (usually a women who is bad tempered)

Bam/Bampot- Used in all of Scotland I think, means idiot.

Ned- Scottish version of Chav- usually a troublemaker

He thinks he's toffee and everyone wants a lick. Meaning a man who thinks too highly of himself.

Scots ones are the best!
Numpty
Fud
Radge
Fanny
Bam(pot)
Glaikit
Foosom (meaning minging)
Ya hoor! (Expression of annoyance)
Hoor o' a man
and to be honest, anything can be made an insult with the right intonation 😉

Ack Away and take yer face for a shite -
I heard a man say this to a barmaid once and it makes me laugh every time I think of it!

Face like a bag of spanners.

Face like a bulldog chewing on a wasp (but pronounce wasp as it is written rather than "wosp")

Midlands.

Doolally is old army slang, from the town in India where a military mental hospital was located.

Love this thread. I am from the land of Mardy Bums!

I was born into an Irish surname, but no recent Irish ancestry. However, “notions” is what lingered. DDad, passed away many, many years ago, was good at telling people they had notions. I heard my aussie friend use it yesterday too. I may introduce it to S W Yorks!

Manny. Means mardy, but I've only ever heard it around Mansfield.

Came to say the same as @FancyFlugelhornso regional that when I worked 20/30 mins drive away people had no idea what it meant

Face like a yard of gravy

Face like a burst boot

Face like a bulldog licking p*ss off a nettle

Face like a slapped arse

Face like a bag of kn*b ends

Mouth like a torn pocket

Face like a bag of smashed crabs

Face like a melted wellie

Face like a blind cobbler's thumb

Manchester - a place where humour is insulting !

@TheTecknician I've had many great trips to York and the shire and always encountered lovely people.
Thankfully after 12 years of hell the horrible neighbours moved away, blaming all the neighbours for forcing them out!

I live near Portsmouth and worked with a lot of Portsmouth blokes in the past and both those descriptions are very well known to me.

Along with using "mush". i.e. alright mush! 😆

Millie or mill bag (‘she’s a total mill bag’) was a favourite in Belfast when I was growing up. You were telling a girl she was common. It was left over from the linen industry and the fact that loads of women/girls from poorer backgrounds worked in the mills.

I've heard 'mardy-arsed' (grumpy, bad-tempered etc) used a lot oop north but I don't know the origin of the expression.

'Fanny like a welly top' is self-explanatory. I've never heard it used in real life, just saw it in a Viz Roger Mellie strip.

Is Twat national or regional?
I hear it here in Yorkshire but not sure I have heard it elsewhere

To me, twat is just like saying twit and people here do say it.
However I believe in some areas it's a no no as it's akin to actually saying the C word.

Glaswegian here to add some milder ones that I use on my non Glaswegian kids.. “ya wee bisom “ “bawheid” “choob” “eejit” . They find these highly amusing along with when ask them if they think I came up the Clyde oan a banana boat to express incredulity.

@massistar do you use 'wee bisom" for males as well as females? Here it's just for females but I had a work colleague from Ayrshire who called boys " wee bisoms" too.

Nae wise or calling someone a nae wiser is common here

I’d use for boys and girls @RaraRachael. Indiscriminate use of bisom.

Bawheid
Bawbag
Donnert
Twat

Twat and fanny are interchangeable 😂

(In Scottish, pref. Glasgow)
"Oi you, you big fat bawbag twat / fanny"

Running around like a blue arse fly

My mum's favourite was "like a fart in a colander, don't know which hole to come out of"!