I don’t see the word nobhead so I consider it inaccurate

  • crapwittyname@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    20 hours ago
    • Melt
    • Helmet
    • Weapon
    • Prat
    • Git
    • Gimboid/Smeghead
    • Divvy
    • Pudding
    • Bute
    • Nincompoop
    • Twunt

    Are some others. The first three are personal favourites.

  • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    22 hours ago

    Irish list if you want to take it from us like you took everything else from us

    1. Gom : mostly harmless fool
    2. Pleidhce (ply-kah) : unserious fool
    3. Eejit : idiot, but nice
    4. Jackeen : a waver of miniature union jacks
    5. Gom(b)ee(n) : a mostly harmless fool who is also small either in stature or importance.
    6. Mog: a backwards gom
    7. Headwreck : annoying, frustrating
    8. The Notions on him/her/them/etc : someone with a grand personal image
    9. Gowl : (a junction, specifically that between your legs)
    10. Langer (long story, TLDR don’t shoot monkeys)

    Edit: Lemmy markdown doesn’t let you count down but as a lazy half-arsed Irish stereotype I’m not fixing it

    • NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      20 hours ago

      Is it the Scots that often say “you absolute gowl” or do they use a similar word to that?

      • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        12 hours ago

        I haven’t heard of that but given that Scottish Gaelic is pretty much just a dialect of Gaeilge, it’s possible. Although as an insult its more common in Munster which is at the least-related end of the dialect scale from Scottish.

  • speendle@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    1 day ago

    Maybe they didn’t know the origin of berk (Berkeley Hunt in Cockney rhyming slang)…

  • waz@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    23 hours ago

    Pillock and plonker are rude, meaning cock either way, but it’s kind of archaic and lost the emphasis. Berk on the other hand is full on rude, but used lightly compared to its direct translation from rhyming slang

  • Rusty@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    20 hours ago

    TIL that wazzock is a British word. I’ve only heard it as a Dwarfish word in Warhammer universe.

  • sevenism@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 day ago

    Prat Div Twit Twerp Smeghead

    Are some other mild ones that I don’t really hear anymore