What's your favorite swear word/insult?

[pocaracas]

I note that the term “Muppet“, for an idiotic or dull-witted person, has been gaining in prevalence the last few years. I also note the prevalence of a few Muppets around this board lately... I'm sure we all know who they are.

That's where I'd use my "donkey"
Of course, the portuguese word sounds so much harsher and appropriate! BURRO!

[Clueless Morgan]

I note that the term “Muppet“, for an idiotic or dull-witted person, has been gaining in prevalence the last few years. I also note the prevalence of a few Muppets around this board lately... I'm sure we all know who they are.

[The Valkyrie]

I think the more unintelligent you are the more you will use swear words.

Nonsense.

I have a job where I interract on a professional level all day and must maintain a professional attitude.

I swear naturally quite a bit when not at work and, I can tell you, so do many of the people I work with.

I can honestly say that none of them are unintelligent.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think the more unintelligent you are the more you will use swear words.

I think you have zero evidence and therefore your opinion is irrelevant.

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knobrot n. Literally, an STD. By extension, a person you'd rather have an STD than talk to. An unpleasant individual.

shitehawk n. Same as 'knobrot'. You can gild the lily and use 'Bombay shitehawk'.

acting the maggot, maggoting v. Arsing about.

muckshite n. Rural person.

barse n. Same as Stimbo's 'notcher'. A portmanteau of 'bollocks' and arse.

cuntflake n. A person with nutty ideas - conspiracy theorists, pyramidologists, creationists, etc.

relax yer cack v. Literally, a 'relaxed cack' is a flaccid penis. Colloquially, 'relax yer cack' means to calm the fuck down.

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Boru

I love all of these! Where are you from?

Northern Ireland, originally.

Boru

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True story regarding homosexual 'slurs'. My wife and I have a friend who is gay. He met us for brunch one time wearing a shirt so loud, it should have come with a volume control. My missus burst out laughing and said, 'Charlie, that shirt is so gay!!'

He said, 'Ellen, I'm gay, you know that.'

Still laughing she said, 'Oh, I didn't mean "gay" as in homosexual, I meant "gay" as in lame.'

Boru

[Autumnlicious]

Fuck is a good word.

Calling Woodie a "Pencildick" is always funny to me.

[Ravenshire]

I think it was Napoleon who suggested we have a new thread just for this, but I'll have to go back and check to be sure.

American swear words, I will have to go with douchenozzle. Hehe

British swear word, definitely wanker!

The meaning varies depending on where you're from but I really like naco for Spanish insults.

What are your favorites?

I have to admit I have a new one. Chucklefuck.

As for British swears/insults. I have to go with git. I know it's not a swear, but it's so versatile.

[Losty]

Thanks to RobbyPants for showing me this book!!!

[BrokenQuill92]

[Cyberman]

As for British swears/insults. I have to go with git. I know it's not a swear, but it's so versatile.

It is a swearword actually, though rather low on the food chain. As with almost all epithets, what matters isn't so much the word itself but the invective behind it. I could greet a friend with “hey there, you old git; how you doing?“ - which is a world apart from “get away from me you stupid git.“

Incidentally, on the subject of how swearwords lose their sting over time: there's the word “berk“, meaning an idiot or buffoon (or a Dubya), which is so harmless and somewhat quaint now that it was even used as the name of a much-loved character on a childrens' claymation series The Trapdoor, voiced by the late great Willie Rushton. Consider, however, that the word is derived from Berkshire Hunt, cockney rhyming slang for... well, something that rhymes with Berkshire Hunt, and it's a wonder they got away with it.

Then again, things are always slipping past the censors. Kenny Everett had his diva character Cupid Stunt, the Goons were masters of phrases such as Hampton Wick and Pink Oboe back in the fifties, and even clean-cut George Formby had a filthy mouth a decade earlier.

[Ravenshire]

I stand corrected. It's use in the first two Harry Potter books (aimed at 11- and twelve-year-old children) is what led me to believe it wasn't one. J.K. Rowling did, after all, leave the use of such tame swears as damn and hell until later in the series.

Thanks Stimbo, for the correction.