What's your worst local insult (without swearing)

[AndyRM]

Doyle is quite a good one, not exactly local but a Teesside one. Not a clue what it means, but it's pleasing to say and sounds pretty scathing.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Well, I've heard the chap over the road from me cheats at whist!

He talks about that frightfully common man across the road who rides one of those beastly velocepede contraptions.

 

[steve50]

Doyle is quite a good one, not exactly local but a Teesside one. Not a clue what it means, but it's pleasing to say and sounds pretty scathing.

A Doyle or doylen is usually a derogatory reference to how thick or stupid someone is. In yorkshire we would say hes a right doylen. Another conversation killer is " five million sperm and you're the one that got through ".

 

[Cycleops]

I came across some strange ones from my time in London, a mate once called somebody , "A right Sir Anthony"... then explained it was linked to a spy who had been part of the Cambridge Five. Totally baffled!

If you were genuinely baffled I'll explain it. Its cockney rhyming slang. Sir Anthony refers to Anthony, or Sir as he was, Blunt the traitor. The rhyming part if often omitted so someone who isn't 'in the loop' won't understand.

Get it now?!

 

[PaulSB]

Dingle, the closer one gets to Blackburn and always refers to the inhabitants of Burnley who are also commonly known as our six fingered inbred friends from over the hill.

 

[BigAndyH]

At the age of 3 my youngest son, apoplectic with rage at something his elder brother had inflicted upon him, turned , and before unleashing his fists, paused to find the worst insult possible, eventually coming out with. "you....stupid.... puffin".
We still use it in the family when anyone is being particularly annoying.

 

[gordonrgw]

from my hometown on the NE of Scotland..

"He's no right..."

usually inferring some kind of mental incapacity

 

[flake99please]

Borderline swear word is calling someone a fud.

 

[ColinJ]

from my hometown on the NE of Scotland..

"He's no right..."

usually inferring some kind of mental incapacity

My (English) dad once asked a woman in my (Scottish) mum's village if she had any children. She replied that she just had a "wee loonie"***. He said that he was really sorry to hear that ...

She took offence and asked him why? He replied that it he was sorry to hear about her son's mental disability ...






*** A little boy!

 

[DaveReading]

Never call a Scot a Teuchter ...

 

[MiK1138]

Not sure if it will pass the censor but "Bawbag" is a particular favorite of mine

 

[flake99please]

Not sure if it will pass the censor but "Bawbag" is a particular favorite of mine

If a baw hair is a legitimate unit of measure, I can't see an issue with bawbag.

 

[User6179]

Yer maws got baws and yer da loves it

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

Yer a Rocket.
Could be something to do with being a moon man or a space cadet.
Which are insults too funnily enough

 

[MiK1138]

I reckon we scots are the best insulters out and if you dont agree "smell yer maw"