Saturday 6 September 2008

Classic but underused swear names

In August I instigated a list that, with the help of some rather contrary friends, compiled the best of the forgotten swear names. Here is that list.

I believe all of these, when used appropriately, can be quite cutting:

Bag
Berk
Brut (which also can be used as an adjective: i.e. "you brutish cow"; and so on)
Buffoon
Bugger
Cad
Card
Chump
Cock
Cockknocker
Codger
Cow
Cretin
Cunny
Dick head
Dipstick
Div
Dork
Dullard
Dunce
Dufus
Dweeb
Git
Goon
Half-wit
Herbert
Imbecile
Jerk
Moron (although that's making a comeback)
Nerd
Nincompoop
Ninny
Nitwit
Numb-skull
Pecker
Pillock
Plank
Plebeian (abbreviates to Pleb)
Plonker
Plum
Poindexter
Pranny
Prat
Putz
Oaf
Queef
Quim
Schmuck
Simpleton
Spack
Spazz
Spiv
Sod
Sourpuss
Swine
Tit
Toss Pot
Turd
Tripe (although this can only be used in a certain way, at a certain time)
Troglodyte (abbreviates to Trog)
Trollop
Twerp
Twit
Twot
Wally
Wazzock


An example of how one uses such words appropriately:

Close your mouth when you eat you wretched sod.
How dare you take my mother's name with strife, you foul mouthed twit.
What a lot of codswollop, you curmudgeonous old git.