<p>I think that British Slang insults are far more “pleasing to the ear” than American insults… Here are some British terms for “idiot”</p>
<p>Plonker, Muppet, Numpty, Clot and Pillock.</p>
<p>Of course there are always room for the more offensive terms of:
Wanker, Prat, Oik, Tosser and Twat.</p>
<p>Do you agree are these insults more “pleasing to the ear” than stadard American words like Geek, Dork and Nerd?</p>
<p>hahaha. I like these offensive British terms.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind being called a muppet. </p>
<p>Do they have specific meanings? Like a geek is a person who excels at one thing (computers, video games) and who isn’t necessarily smart. A dork is just a socially awkward guy. And a nerd is a overachieving smart person.</p>
<p>Clot is a term for a generally stupid (or as we say in the UK “thick”) person.
Numpty, Pillock and Plonker is essentially the British version of the words moron and idiot
Muppet is what you would call your friend is they were being did something stupid out of being clumsy.</p>
<p>give me more more bloody terms! ;)</p>
<p>Wanker and Tosser both literally mean “Masterbater” but in context mean something more like jerk.
Prat is what it sounds like…</p>
<p>@fairy_dreams</p>
<p>The Brits have terms for Geek and Nerd but they are not insults.</p>
<p>The term for “geek” is “goggy”
The term for “nerd” is “boffin”
Neither of those are really insults though.</p>
<p>lol twat</p>
<p>would callin someone rubbish be an insult too?</p>
<p>Someone can’t be rubbish, someTHING can be rubbish. In which case you are insulting the thing. Although you can say to someone “you are rubbish at …”</p>
<p>It’s hard for me to be insulted by being called a muppet or numpty I’d start laughing hysterically. The longer words tend to be less harsh, imo.</p>
<p>^ muppet and numpty are “affectionate insults” i.e. they are only words that you would say to your friends.</p>
<p>“awww you plonker, ohhh you numpty, oh you are such a pillock!”</p>
<p>lol I can’t imagine someone actually uttering those words</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - James May on the throne](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5did63uydc]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5did63uydc)</p>
<p>I should explain “the throne” is the toilet</p>
<p>Hm, that’s interesting that “prat” is considered more offensive. At least where I live, one might call an annoying little kid a prat. </p>
<p>Of all the Britain-based books I’ve read and movies I’ve seen, I have never heard any of those words lol. I guess Harry Potter just won’t teach you the good stuff.</p>
<p>The Harry Potter books have very few “British words” because the slang is replaced by wizard slang</p>
<p>^Like “Merlin’s pants!”</p>
<p>…Do they actually say that in England?</p>
<p>well these insults aren’t really used so much. i’ve been living here for five years and while we sometimes use words like numpty and muppet, they are indeed affectionate ones we call our friends, but if we used them to insult someone, they would definitely laugh in our face. </p>
<p>some of the more chavvy ones include wasteman, bumbaclut, bowcat…
again, i feel silly just saying them because i’m not really into the whole grime scene which is where they originate from, but because i’m in south london these things sort of just seep into the language…</p>
<p>I hear twat and tosser.</p>
<p>twat, tosser and wanker are common as well.</p>
<p>I don’t know where you are ay but “wasteman” to for me is a semi-compliment… I would’ve put bumbaclut but I had no idea how to spell it…</p>
<p>I’ll kill you, you <strong><em>ing flatchested cocksucking spastic </em></strong>ing horse**er.