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

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[–] 31 points 11 months ago

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

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Prat Div Twit Twerp Smeghead

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

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Smeghead

    I don't disagree, but it's difficult explaining to Americans how "you have a head consisting of the congealed semen and other matter scraped from underneath someone's foreskin" is only a mild insult.

    Particularly when with a decent proportion of them, you first have to explain what a foreskin is.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. smeg is an actual word. its not just from red dwarf???

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Well "smeg" is just from Red Dwarf but "smegma" is an actual word, and that's where they got the word from. They needed a futuristic swear word - Lister can't be someone who doesn't swear, but this was 1980s BBC - and they came up with that.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Is dipstick a british thing? I've heard it plenty in america. The rest are definitely foreign to me.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    What melt made this list?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Where does wanker fall? Is it a curse word?

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It was considered a swear word, but fairly mild.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (2 children)
    • Melt
    • Helmet
    • Weapon
    • Prat
    • Git
    • Gimboid/Smeghead
    • Divvy
    • Pudding
    • Bute
    • Nincompoop
    • Twunt

    Are some others. The first three are personal favourites.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Would knobhead be without cursing? From my understanding, "knob" is basically the same as "dick."

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Knobhead is a mild swearword. Although knob means penis, it's one of the milder words for it (maybe one step worse than "willy" or "todger").

    Note that wazzock, pillock, dipstick and plonker are all, at some place and point in time, also words for penis.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months 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

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Could have included git as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you, Only Fools and Horses, for introducing me to plonker and wally!

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Why does this read like a pip requirements.txt?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    I need some of these phonetically. Also eijit sounds like something very common to like hillbilly type talk from the us. Also I totally need something to use for flag wavers in general. Stupid showy nationalism instead of caring about the true core good philosophies around the best of a society.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Warhammer is made by a British company headquartered in Nottingham, where wazzock is a common local phrase that is believed to have originated a bit further north

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Now I'm Im curious if any other words from this list https://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Khazalid_lexicon are actually British English words?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Skree or scree is a real word for loose rocks on the side of a hill.

    Also grim to describe harsh, we would say "its grim up north".

    The rest are quite possibly a mix of old english/norse and also seems like there might be some asiatic in there like "kuri"

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago
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    What are you doing promoting X on the Fediverse? You dafty! If you're not careful people will start to think you're a gype!

    You don't want to be associated with this bunch of cider swigging reprobates!

    https://gype.bandcamp.com/album/gype

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    Very location specific but I enjoy dinlo

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I need to save this.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    How about "Prick"

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    Mug needs to be #1

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