An underused word for your consideration: "scug" - a Victorian schoolboy insult denoting a pushy, slovenly, morally undeveloped slacker with bad manners and far too high an opinion of himself.
(All that in one syllable! If that's not 19th century efficiency I don't know what is.)
If it's good enough to be employed by those most worthy knights P. G. Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett, I deem it good enough for us. I use it myself. Care to join me?
#scug #insults #Wodehouse #Pratchett
**Savage Wit Through the Ages: 20 of the Best Insults in History**
“_In this collection of 20 legendary quotes, we spotlight the zingers that went beyond humor and became unforgettable moments of public triumph._”
https://historycollection.com/savage-wit-through-the-ages-20-of-the-best-insults-in-history/.
I regularly heard my friends use (仆街) puk gai as an insult, but I never looked into its etymological origins that mean "I hope you keel over and die on the street, with no family or loved ones around you, abandoned by society as just another corpse."
https://youtu.be/zrGYk06vqJE?t=482
Very efficient insult.
https://youtu.be/zrGYk06vqJE?t=482 #Cantonese #Insults #Language
In case you need new ways to express your frustration with the current movers and shakers of world affairs, or just the assholes in your more immediate proximity...
**“You have such a February face”: Shakespeare’s Most Savage Insults, Explained**
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/culture/culture-society/shakespeare-insults/.
Goodbye to Gene Hackman, one of the greats. He also made us wonder about the difference between an asshole and a son of a bitch. @stancarey in 2019:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2019/05/03/sweary-semantics-in-the-royal-tenenbaums/
What do #MAGA #liars do on a regular basis? They #lie.
What do they do when #calledout? #Juvenile #insults.
#dishonest
#dictator #wannabe
#powertrip
#rottenToTheCore
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-hits-astronaut-shocking-180900402.html
Ellisland, 1791
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickle-herring-in-the-puppet
For more on the r-word's fraught history and usage, see @IvaCheung's 2015 post for Strong Language:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/retarded-progress/
"The R-word has lately served as an anti-virtue-signal, affirmation that the speaker is not bound by the standards of 'wokeness'..." Miles Klee:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/r-word-elon-musk-maga-1235226732/
He can’t even come up with original insults.
The “take a big step back…” line is better with Tom Cruise’s delivery in 2008’s Tropic Thunder (and written by Justin Therox, Ben Stiller and Etan Cohen).
The original: https://youtu.be/gHL5yyKdPaA
From Churl to Cur - here are ten medieval insults! https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/10-medieval-insults/ #insults #medieval #Englishlanguage #badwords
As befits any professing #Nazi who is self-respecting, #ElonMusk is just doubling down on his #threats and #insults against all democratic parties in #Germany. Again.
And, matching this, our @Bundesregierung are total chicken who won't even react, especially not fight this #sucker (best where it really hurts him).
Closing in on coming to a point where I prefer not to know why all this is happening the way it is.
Judge suggests that swearing in the workplace is particularly common in the north of England:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/05/swearing-work-common-north-england-judge
#Trump & his allies…[have tried to blame Democrats for]…an overheated political climate that…has led to #PoliticalViolence, ignoring that Trump has long used…[far worse]…language to describe Democrats.
Throughout Thurs night’s interview, Trump…gave a series of #rambling answers in which he flung personal #insults at his critics, at one point relived his 2016 presidential campaign & used dark language to make exaggerated claims about #immigration.
#GeraldoRivera Goes OFF At #MAGA #Speaker’s #Insults To #Hispanic #Voters at #Trump #MadisonSquareGarden #Rally
#Comedian #TonyHinchcliffe led with a #controversial #opening with #inflammatory #jokes about #PuertoRico, as “a floating #island of #garbage.”
Trump's #campaign #distanced themselves from the #remarks, saying the #views do not represent those of #DonaldTrump.
— Except He read his #speech off of a #teleprompter. Which means they knew in advance.
zingers zig and zag
barbed insults baked perfectly
icing on the cake
#haiku #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #zinger #insults #cake #icing
