What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?
from daggermoon@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 11:36
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from daggermoon@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 11:36
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Fuck and shit just ain’t cutting it anymore.
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Hitler.
Good thinking, but overplayed. Eva Braun perhaps?
Nah, that’s just the term for someone you disagree with these days.
One time at work I pissed off my manager by calling another manager Hitler. I’m still pretty proud of that.
I prefer calling them Goebbels or Himmler.
Liberal/fascist
People seem to use them to mean ‘people I don’t like’ regardless of the actual meanings of the words
It just doesn’t sting enough
Liberals call themselves liberals so how is that an hurtful insult or even an insult?
For best results, it depends on the context.
For example, when I’m dealing with people who cannot (or refuse) to do the simplest of tasks, I’ve found myself muttering “ugh, just read the instructions I wrote you troglodyte”.
Classic. Troglodyte is an underrated one. I also like cretin.
Viz invented the word “fitbin” as the most offensive word ever. www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fitbin
I like that. The UD link reminded me of one. We should just start calling people waffle stompers.
That reminds me, do NOT look it up if you value your eyes, “Blue Waffle”
I saw that when I was 15 bruh, bit late lol
Moist
he he
My friend group uses Moist to mean awesome.
That’s pretty moist, my homie.
Moist sauce!
Stop trying to make “moist” happen
It’s already happened, and it continues happening.
It’s a medical condition. I can’t help it.
But I don’t think tankies would mind being called “Moist”.
Oh, sorry, I thought you meant “Maoist”.
Heard a lesbian once say they have the same reaction to the term “shaft”
It is a Dead Like Me series reference
A lot of Americans who say “fuck” will still lose their goddamn minds if you say “cunt”.
Yeah, I say cunt a lot as an American. My mom hates it which is at least partially why I love it. Shit cunt is my favorite variation.
Once the shock value of a simple ‘cunt’ has worn off, ‘thundercunt’ is my next escalation.
Thundercunt seems like stepping down on shock value. I would be more likely to say that than just cunt by itself.
It has thunder in it, can’t get more shocking than thunder :P
In America, it is a harsh term for the vagina. As a gendered term, it would be considered a slur. For some reason, "pussy" is more acceptable but carries the same connotations. The latter is used to describe a coward, while the former would be more akin to "bitch."
I mean, it can be, but there are also other ways to use the term. It also is the only word in English that refers to the whole gentalia, not just the vagina or some other part. Gee I wonder why the word for female genatalia is considered dirty to a bunch of puritanical Americans. Reclaim it.
Vulva refers to the whole genitalia.
Vulva is external only.
Yeah, you’re right. Every definition I can find for cunt is either vulva or vagina, but none say it refers to both. I think it’s just used interchangeably for both. I think the only term that refers to everything would be “female reproductive organs” and “female genitalia”, but that does include things like the uterus and the ovaries that both vulva and vagina (and therefore cunt), don’t include. I could certainly be wrong though.
I know one, they get all bent over twat too
In England, twat (pronounced to rhyme with “hat”) is barely considered rude.
People in the small-town South don’t take it well when you call them sister-fuckers, either, as I quickly learned.
Didn’t stop me, though.
I was virtually raised by Australians so i’m a little more comfortable using that word than most people in America.
Fascist, because it’s not a slur; it’s a declaration of a fact, that applies to too many people.
I mean yeah but i’m not gonna say FASCIST when i stub my toe.
How about “Son of a Fascist!”
What if you stubbed your toe on a fascist’s head?
If you only stubbed your toe on a fascits head then you didn’t kick hard enough.
Feel free to combine words in here for maximum effect. A nice “FASCIST CUNT!” or “DONALD TRUMP! / CHILD RAPIST” would maybe fit better for a stubbed toe than just FASCIST.
Hag
I forgot viraĉo exists.
Pathetic
I’m french and I tend to swear using disgraced politician. You say “Sac à manuel valls” instead of “Sac à merde” ( Bag of shit ) and you can probably do the same with other well hated politician. There nothing like blamming Manuel Valls when I stub my toe.
The only French I know is le chat mange. I’m a big fan of your language, even though it confuses the hell out of me.
It confuse the hell out of me too. The rules are confusing and there is often stuff that contradict itself.
I’m usualy make more mistake in french than in english. I even tend to speak english when I’m too tired because french consume too much brain power.
I tried learning it for a while because I really like Jacques Brel. Then I realized I was in over my head and decided to focus on Esperanto instead. I hope to try French again someday. Y’all have amazing accents as well.
Must be nice to have disgraced politicians. Wouldn’t work in my country.
You must have some, you just have to find them.
We’re not done yet. There’ll be a lot, but it might take a while.
I think lowlife is the best it is a general insult and insult his existence itself
Fungdark
I’ve heard that before but cannot place it. What is that from?
30 Rock
Lol, of course. I need to do a re-watch.
Cuntrocket
Vegan dildo.
Zionist
It works for Ethan Klein I guess
Puto/puta.
If I hear someone using the word ‘Jew’ in any prejorative sense, I find it pretty immediately telling and offensive.
ChatGPT
I love ones that make it seems like you’re talking down to a kid
Flapjack, doof, pipsqueak, piece (as in “you piece”), dingodile, jackwagon etc.
Shit and fuck are just spicy filler words anymore so you gotta switch it up
On the subject of one that make it seem like you are talking down to a kid, my personal favorite is twip from Batman Beyond.
I like calling people inanimate objects. Being angrily called a “fucking waffle” or a “God damned acorn” hits different than the normal curses and slurs
Write that down! Write that down!
Guess what “glans” means.
“Listen up, lollipops!”
Come to the Netherlands and you can swear with all the diseases you want! Except cancer - some people will take genuine offense if you do that. But typhus, cholera, tuberculosis? Those are a-okay!
Idiot Sandwich
When in doubt about swearing look to the british. Cunt and bugger.
Since when is cunt not a swearword you fucking donut
um. he did not ask for something that was not a swear. He finds fuck and shit to be to boring to use. He wants a non slur. Granted you can reach and say cunt being female anatomy is a femal slur but given I hear it more used for men. eh. also maybe you can related bugger to gay but its a stretch to.
Ah my bad, I thought slur and swear are synonymous for some reason, I stand corrected.
Though I would argue both dick and cunt are kinda slurs as they imply negative things about a specific gendered thing, at least that’s how I feel about them.
Weirdly I don’t feel the same way about the word for bunch of sticks and the one that rhymes with regarded
Because for me they have a specific meaning that is completely irrelevant to what they mean originally.
Yeah I think part of it is they don’t belong as swears for your last two but they were turned into depilatories. Its a bit like some folks at things I have been to get negative about the YMCA song and im like don’t be like that. That man is loud and proud and supporting us with the national anthem of his people. If he could join us in costume Im sure he would. Celebrate the freedom found in the YMCA.
That one was so common in normal 2000’s conversation I am still trying to break the habit of saying it. If anyone has replacements, I’m open to suggestions.
the British are SO GOOD at insults, if their accent wasn’t so damn hilarious roadrage would be terrifying
The range of invective is far richer than that. American terms of abuse are far more limited.
trump
Muppet, munter, twat. Just start using UK insults
In a professional setting: disappointment is the strongest word I’ve ever said to someone
Outside that? I don’t know if there is a good cutoff between slur/not slur… The one I vividly remember was old Chinese social media users (before the blockage) calling some people “Wumao” (translates to 50 cents). This is implying that the person is being a troll, and they did it because they were so pathetic that they accepted a 50-cent commission from the government to say good/bad things on the internet. Probably still the worst insult I could imagine till this day; modern equivalent might be calling someone “nice job ChatGPT” or a “Russian bot”
Turd
Presidential.
Not a word, but my favorite recent addition was when someone told me her husband, rather than flip people off in road rage situations, just looks at them and gives them a thumbs down gesture, and it makes them so much more mad. I’ve been doing it whenever I see Cybertrucks.
If you’ve never called someone a “donut” before, you’ve never lived.
Meh, Gordon Ramsey vibes.
Depends what you want. Gobshite. Cunt. Cretin. Wretch. Popinjay. Ne’er-do-well. Buffoon. Malcontent. Simpleton. Embarrassment.
Goat licker is a good one, for example “You canoe humping goat licker!”
I recently stumbled upon “dense block of hamstink”.
You battery operated trilobite would not recognise an offensive sentence if I typed it at you!
I want a pet trilobite
As an Australian, I would like to introduce you to a word more offensive than “fuck” while just as versatile, and that is “Cunt”.
Big fan of the word. I use it frequently. I also eat Vegemite and say she’ll be right. Big fan of y’all.
Yeah nah. Do you go to the servo for smoko? Ever get some dim sims from the fish and chippery? Ever chuff down durries, while eyeing up some ranga chick squeezing dead horse on her fritters?
No, but at least I don’t have to deal with Telstra.
M8 Telstra is a cakewalk compared to Centrelink.
I’ll take your word for it m8. Hey, any chance you can get me a date with Bindi Irwin?
May I please have a translation for “squeezing dead horse on her fritters”? I assume fritters is some sort of food, but the dead horse has peaked my interest.
Excuse me my apologies, may I please have a translation for “squeezing dead horse on her fritters”, ya cunt?
Is it glue? But you don’t normally eat glue, so my guess is mayo or ranch maybe?
Dead horse is tomato sauce (ketchup)
It rhymes.
Fritters are deep fried, could be potato, but sometimes you get banana.
Cunt is one of the most Australian words I know. I sadly left OZ more than a decade ago,but I still get a bit of a melancholic feeling whenever I hear it.
The fact that you can also say cunt in an positive sense is fucking funny.
Sick cunt! And Oi cunt is always a bit of a hit and miss for someone who is not an native Australian slang speaker.
(Oi cunt once got me thrown out of an irish pub somewhere in County Cork - when used to greet my Australian mate
Bogan is also a word that needs much more recognition worldwide. Same as Drongo and Fair dinkum. And so many others.
Few of my personal favorites: “I’m disappointed in you” “You don’t have to be your parents you know” “Is this what you do with your free time?”
I have a good one. Once a small machine shop in my hometown had their adjustable sign say “gravely bad-boy scag” which sounds like the best insult ever, but apparently all 3 are brands of lawnmowers that they sold.
Me and my sister still call each other scag to this day lol
I cannot think of anything outside of the not so humble Australian cunt for single words. That or LLMbecile ( one I heard here ).
Though, when talking to others, a classic “Mr. Rodgers would be disappointed in you.” is always an option.
Fucktard
classic
ending a word with “-tard” references the “r-slur” against disabled people. Regardless of if you still approve of its use (I don’t) it therefore misses the question asked.
“You leotard!”
It’s a portmanteau of a slur
If you ever to go Hong Kong or Guangzhou, you need to know this volcabulary:
仆街
廢柴
變態
冚家鏟
黐線
The translated version doesn’t even come close to the actual emotion toll of hearing these words used by your parents or brother against you.
Dickhole, Jackbag, Slamhog
Thundercunt, works every time
If you’re in America: “cunt.” Alternatively: “Karen.”
If you’re not, calling someone an american.
I called one of my co-workers a cunt for bullying a different co-worker. Calling him a cunt got me in more trouble than his bullying.
So that, but I never apologized despite the pressure. Woo, union? lol.
Clanker. It’s a slur, but who cares. AI don’t have feelings.
Moist, as in “moist oily ointment.”
Cooze
Piss slit
Pig’s sluice
Niggard/niggardly sounds like a really, really, awful choice for a word to describe someone cheap like Scrooge. It’s not a slur it just sounds way too much like one. The use of the word is controversial despite the only connection the two words share is how they sound.
I wouldn’t use the word around people though. Explaining how a word that sounds racist isn’t racist makes you appear to be more racist. It isn’t a slur but gets treated as if it was one.
✓ quite offensive
✓ not a slur
X you probably still shouldn’t use it
It never matters what is, only what people think, is.
This essentially sums up cutting education and ramping propaganda.
It could be argued that the term comes from racist roots and therefore using it is racist.
You could argue that if you make up the argument I guess.
The only reason people use this word is because it sounds like the slur. If you’re choosing words just so you can say “Actually, it’s technically not a slur,” you’re just being racist.
手前
An incredibly vulgar way of saying “you” in Japanese.
What makes it vulgar, just curious?
The short answer is, “because history”. Like most words, although this often feels like a non-answer.
I’m a novice when it comes to the language as a heads up. But my understanding is that generally most of these incredibly vulgar ways of saying “you” came about because they were originally actually respectful ways of referring to someone. But as time passed, people began using them ironically. So a term that was originally respectfully used to refer to someone of higher status is now only used if you’re basically cursing someone out.
Japanese doesn’t really have swear words, it’s mostly just words that are incredibly disrespectful or otherwise inappropriate for certain context.
There’s also 貴様 (kisama) which is basically so comically rude because, to my understanding, saying it implies everyone is inferior to you by default.
Edit: it’s also worth noting that saying “you” isn’t very common in Japanese in general. Usually you’d just refer to someone by their name. So even otherwise tame versions of you can still be inappropriate in the wrong circumstances. Not to the degree of these though.
loose butthole
though now that I think about it, simply “butthole” would be enough. everyone has one, still feels offensive enough and works universally.
the answer is obviously “weatherboy”
Is that a reference to something?
Wouldnt you like to know Weatherboy
I guess I was really only half curious
knowyourmeme.com/…/wouldnt-you-like-to-know-weath…
Thanks, that is amazing and has improved my morning significantly!
You could go full British. “You absolute/complete/total (any noun)”
You absolute sponge.
You complete brick.
You total signpost.
Its all in the delivery. Say it with enough malice and anything is an insult.
**Puts on British voice
‘‘You tooting foghorn of ignorance’’
you UTTER building material
You fucking spanner.
Cancer sufferer works in the Netherlands
Ouch, that’s brutal
Kankerlijer. You can replace cancer with any of a number of other nasty diseases.
It’s also customary to tell someone “get cancer!” (krijg de kanker), “get tuberculosis!” (krijg de pleuris) or “get leprosy!” (krijg het lazarus). All map to English-language sentiments such as “eat shit and die” or “fuck off.”
You can also just use “cancer” as a prefix to anything that happens to piss you off: cancer-influencers, cancer-sandwich, whatever. And the same goes for other diseases.
I personally prefer “klootzak,” which means ball bag. The word rolls off the tongue so nicely. But then, everything said in Dutch sounds aggressively pejorative, even sweet talk.
Republican
Definitely a slur
Lately I’ve been a big fan of “bungalow”, to signify that someone has nothing upstairs.
Bollocks
hairy bollocks
Cheese hole
Chuckles and giggles are my goto ones depending on how aggressively stupid someone is acting.
“Fargin Bastages”.
Call someone sticky, and dont use it like an insult say it like you are being genuine. If they try to hand you something shy away and be like “oh um no I’m sorry, you’re just kinda sticky” garentee that’ll leave a mark
cunt
American
Bro said the A-word 💀
And if you wanna feel extra spiteful, use American’t
Make it sound like Americunt.
Twat
Champ.
Yahoo#1: “The Earth is flat, didn’t you know?”
You: “Alright, Champ.”
Poes
The top turd here in the US is definitely a cockwomble
Pimmel.
I posted before but I remembered the true best non-slur you can say:
“Who is this clown?”
It not only calls them a clown, but implies they aren’t even a good enough clown to be recognizable.