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Regional insults

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CharliesAngles · 14/10/2025 10:08

What's your favourite?

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

What can I add to broaden my repertoire?

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outdooryone · 15/10/2025 16:42

Stood at a bus stop in Liverpool as a student early one morning and one of the ladies waiting loudly used the phrase "...'ees gorra face like a ruptured custard..." which led to proper uncontrollable laughing from a few of us.

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 15/10/2025 19:35

RaraRachael · 15/10/2025 12:07

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.

I always thought it was akin to twit but then some down south posters set me right.

BlackeyedSusan · 15/10/2025 20:06

Wazzock
Daft 'a'pe'th (halfpenny worth)
Twonk
Twallup
Two sandwiches short of a picnic

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 15/10/2025 20:09

BlackeyedSusan · 15/10/2025 20:06

Wazzock
Daft 'a'pe'th (halfpenny worth)
Twonk
Twallup
Two sandwiches short of a picnic

I'm not from Yorkshire,I always thought apeth had something to do with apes or gorilla's 🤣🤣
Silly sod 🤣

SinnerBoy · 15/10/2025 20:13

My nan was from down South (Wigan) and she called people besoms (bisoms). It described a bloody minded woman - usually kind of admiringly, but suggesting that she was wrong.

CharliesAngles · 15/10/2025 20:24

Oh! Besoms/bisoms!
I thought it was another word for bosoms so rather like calling someone a "right tit"!
Only a right one though mind, not a left one...
😅

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manchestermaggie · 15/10/2025 20:27

SinnerBoy · 15/10/2025 20:13

My nan was from down South (Wigan) and she called people besoms (bisoms). It described a bloody minded woman - usually kind of admiringly, but suggesting that she was wrong.

In Manchester they were called "beesoms" - like the sweeping brush - same meaning though, a women who was a bit of a shrew !

JurgenKloppsTeeth · 15/10/2025 20:29

Aw, my Scottish mum used to say “ya we besom” if I was being difficult/contrary.

Tuss (Cornish) - anything from “idiot” to “cunt” depending on the intonation and emphasis on the ssssss. Has most impact if used alone, no accompanying adjectives. Maybe a snarled lip.

B0D · 15/10/2025 20:45

My dad was from Wirral and use to say daft apeth too!

SinnerBoy · 16/10/2025 08:24

Yes, a besom is an old fashioned broom, which looks like a witches' broom.

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