@@stephenlee5929 We use subtlety from time to time. If you were to ding my tank with an RPG, that wouldn't necessarily be the time. It's an interesting feature of the English language that we can use quite exceptionally rude words with close friends, and yet if you were to use quite a mild term they would feel like they had their epaulettes ripped off and slapped about the face with a glove.
"Build on the flanks of Etna where the sullen smoke-puffs float - Or bathe in tropic waters where the lean fin dogs the boat - Cock the gun that is not loaded, cook the frozen dynamite - But oh, beware my Country, when my Country grows polite!" (Rudyard Kipling - _Et Dona Ferentes_ )
Here's a very subtle form of insult. A foreign woman is being shown into a mansion by a British butler. She says, ''This place is like a prison.'' The butler replies, ''I'm afraid you have the advantage of me madam.''
@@221b-Maker-Street Excellent point! As a bit of a linguistic snob, I take the same view of those who prounounce _circumstance_ as 'circum-STARNCE' (when, in any case, the stress should be on the first syllable), and _envelope_ as 'ON-velope' (in pseudo-French style)😆😆😆
When I was on tour in China we were teaching our tour guide some English slang words including minging and knackered. The Captain of the boat trip we were on asked him to do an English announcement for the few English-speaking passengers on the boat and we dared him to include the new words. He didn't disappoint. "If you look over to the right you'll see Fengdu Ghost City but it's minging because the economy is totally knackered." 🤣🤣🤣
In leather working, a skiving knife was used to split the hide. The person who did this was a skiver and was often the only person who worked sitting down. Hence the word became associated with being lazy or getting the easy work, or later, avoiding work (or school) completely.
In actual fact when building the first bungalow, the builders were originally planning to make a two-storey house. However, they ran out of bricks half way through. So the foreman came over and said "never mind, just bung a low roof on."
Cockney rhyming slang used to be very popular and is still used by some. It's worth checking out. The rule is that you use only the first word of a pair in a phrase to mean something that thymes with the second word. So, 'trouble' means 'wife' (as in 'trouble and strife'). The example she gave was 'Berk', short for Berkshire, as in 'Berkshire Hunt'. So the meaning rhymes with 'hunt', if you get what I mean... 😃 Once you get it, 'Berk' comes across as ruder than it actually is.
What makes me laugh about Rhyming slang is it was invented by the market traders so that they could talk about everyone without their knowledge , then they went around telling everyone how to speak it,
@@DS-wn4dxyes but that’s just the nature of language development. They were encoding their speech using an enigma machine, it was basically a substitution code if you could call it that. It’s hardly pig Latin either. Really all it takes to decipher is a logical leap from observation especially as with it you’re not disguising every word just certain ones- “Alfie is brown bread” “how’d it happen?” “A bottle and stopper coals and coked his Gregory Peck”…a copper broke his neck.
I think maybe, Berk is much more insulting than many people think they are being. Re invented by market traders, maybe, then telling people what it means, only some of the more common and older stuff, it continues to evolve.
@@arghjayem Except it would be "Alfie's brown", how it happen, "A bottle coaled 'is Gregory", 'though Gregory might be a bit old, link works change over time.
_Berk_ is a classic example of Cockney rhyming slang (as Siobhan pointed out) - but one which has become socially acceptable. BTW: don't confuse _minger_ with _minge_ : it could get you into a lot of trouble in polite society!😆
There is documentary evidence in the form of manuscripts to confirm that the English/Welsh two fingered "salute" originated around the time of Agincourt.
Back in the 80s Phil Collins was guest staring in Miami Vice, having read the script he suggested an ad-lib, he used the term "you wanker". The American director wasn't familiar with the term and green lighted it. Later someone checked it's meaning and the scene had to be reshot.
At the end of the episode of the Simpsons featuring U2 Mr Burns calls one of them w****r but it's usually censored now. I don't know if they realised at first how rude it is.
@@michaelcaffery5038 it shouldn't be the word that is offensive in it's self, but they way in which it is delivered send at whom it is targeted. I think people get too hung up on the vocabulary.
My American daughter-in-law has taken on some of my son's sayings and one day at work (they live in the US) she said to her colleagues about something being really manky. They were all WTF, lol. Manky isn't an insult as such, it just means physically dirty, although you could call someone that if you wanted to.
The fact you didn't just take her word for any of the insults, and looked them up yourself is amazing. I've watch so many reaction videos and I've never seen anyone else fact check the information. You really surprised me. Thanks, I look forward to seeing more of your content.
"Thick as Mince" is a good one. Also, if something is "Bollocks" is means real crap, but if something is the "Dogs Bollocks" it apparently means excellent. Also, Mutt's Nuts/Mutz Nutz.
I remember as a child, being fascinated when I heard the name of a character being said in an episode of Mork & Mindy. He was called "Mister Wanker". Wanker has a very different meaning over here, basically another variation on Tosser.
I once said to my immediate boss, "Were you born a prat or do you have to work hard at it?". I kept my job - and he eventually got sacked for being a total prat!! 😅😅
@@lynhugell6563 One of the most unpleasant surnames I've ever come across is _Stench_ . That must have caused many hilarities in the classroom, and made for difficult romantic liaisons later on. Imagine if THAT was substituted for 007's surname!
Supposedly, the origin of sticking two fingers up, comes from the battle of agincourt. British archers would stick them up to the french to show they still had their fingers (needed to fire arrows). The french would cut them off if they caught them.
@@AndrewDKinsey As indeed everyone else knows who watched the same video as you: the presenter explains that legend, and our host plays with it and then has to go and look up "apocryphal" in this context. Yes, we're all watching the same show you are!
There's an easy way most Brits make words into an insult. Think of a random word... sausage, daffodil, teapot, football, etc. 🤔 Then put one of the following in front of it... bloody, total, absolute, complete & utter. e.g. you total daffodil you bloody sausage you absolute teapot you complete & utter football Instant insults. 🤣
You can also use any noun as a verb in the past tense to describe someone as drunk. It's a bit middle-class: "He got trolleyed at the wedding reception" or "He was ratted" is so much more polite than "he was as pissed as a fart".
It also works well for instant threats that seem disarming but aren't actually threats. Just take any verb-noun pair: "Oh yeah? Well I'll wax your bicycle!" "Oh yeah? Well I'll lather your onions!" "Oh yeah? Well I'll drum your boiler!"
4:50 Berk derives from the cockney rhyming slang from Berkeley Hunt which was a famous hunting area near London. It should be noted that Soho is a hunting call from any hunt member shouted upon spotting the fox. The response from the Master of the Hunt is Tally Ho commanding all to give chase.
Also worth noting that the place Berkeley is pronounced Barkley, which most Americans get understandably wrong, sane goes for the county Berkshire…. I know it’s weird 😂
Years ago, at an 🏴 England v 🇦🇺 Australia cricket match. The barmy army statered singing Get your shit stars, get your shit stars, get your shit stars off our flag. 🇦🇺V🏴 the greatest rivalry
Yeah she's right about where berk comes from, but even most Brit's don't know that and it's much less offensive. Although even the c word is not necessarily as offensive over here.
The American comedian who now resides in the U.K. Reg Dwight Hunter says it takes you three weeks to realise that Brits have insulted you! That is how us Brits have taken the art of insulting to the next level. Another trait of ours is sarcasm and we use it liberally.
Skiving originates from the shoe making industry. The edges of two pieces of leather that are going to be stitched together are thinned to half thickness so that the joint is less bulky. This is the first operation in traditional shoe making where the operator is able to sit down, hence ; skiving = sitting on your arse when everybody else is busy on their feet.
Along the same lines as pillock, one of my favourites is wazzock. Puzzock is one from my Gran who was Coventry-based. And one from the annals of Monty Python: "What a silly bunt."
Bounder: Anyway you're interested in one of our adventure holidays? Tourist: Yes I saw your advert in the bolour supplement Bounder: The what? Tourist: The bolour supplement Bounder: The color supplement? Tourist: Yes I'm sorry I can't say the letter 'B' Bounder: C? Tourist: Yes that's right. It's all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a schoolboy. I was attacked by a bat Bounder: A cat? Tourist: No a bat Bounder: Can you say the letter 'K' Tourist: Oh yes, Khaki, king, kettle, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford Bounder: Why don't you say the letter 'K' instead of the letter 'C' Tourist: what you mean.....spell bolour with a K Bounder: Yes Tourist: Kolour. Oh that's very good, I never thought of that! what a silly bunt
Strangers are 99% polite to eachother, but once you're considered familiar/a friend, then you'll be greeted with "How you doing, you balding spasm tosser." We have a Jordanian working with us and he is learning English endearing insults very well. 😅
Best American insult I heard was in a restaurant in Florida. This guy at a nearby table was obviously not getting the service he expected. He turned around to the the waitress and said "you're either a waitress or an arshole, you can't be both". I was in stitches 😅😂😂😂
I've used and heard all these words, it isn't until I watch a video like this I realise how funny they are. My personal favourite on that list is Tosser.
Here's a good Geordie one for you: 'Radgie' = Crazy person. 'Radge' = Crazy. 'Divn't invite wor Davie, he's a pure radgie' or 'Watch oot, wor Davie's gannin' radge'.
Ming in Scots means smell. Pillock is actually a slang term for the middle leg, but few remember it. Gannet in this context is pure Scots. Berkshire hunt - the female equivalent of pillock. Apocryphal (not entirely an insult) - of dubious origin, referring to the archer story, Cf, "Apocrypha," bits of the Bible of dubious authorship..
Skiver/Skiving actually comes from the leather process of skiving - which is the thinning of leather and was one of the few jobs performed sitting down. Hence, it was seen as an easier job and so "skiving" became synonymous with avoiding hard work.
New insults evolve all the time, as language grows and develops. A (relatively) recent one is"You muppet!" (foolish, careless, no idea what to do). As noted in the comments, Scottish insults are at a whole next level, as are many in our various accents and dialects, e.g. Geordie andYorkshire. See "Bauchle" and "Barmpot"
One of my favourites .. "Having your arse in your hands" Meaning you're unhappy, upset and angry about something, and probably getting really moody and sulky over something silly. Eg Jenny has gone to her room in a strop because she doesn't like her new hair cut. She's really got her arse in her hands over it " !
My favourite UK insults * Bell End - (tip of the penis) * Bell Fruit (variation on the above) * Belter (can mean something or someone is great, but also can mean the above depending on tone and context) * F*ck Nuggett (just sounds good not sure the exact meaning but I think that's up to the user) * Scrote (from Scrotum, usually describing a young male Teen who is causing trouble "the little Scrote set fire to the bin" * Lettuce (means they are stupid, very mild insult brilliant when joking and brilliant when angry with someone) * Cowbag (Cow and Bag are insults , usually towards women, Cowbag combines them, mild and jovial, a young girl might say to her friend "Oi stop taking my chips you Cowbag!!" and they would probably laugh afterwards....similar apply to both Cow and Bag, but Cowbag has the extra "bants" factor, it has a comedic meaning usually 99.9999999% of the time)
Fun fact: Churchill has actually done the two fingered salute. Whether he knew the meaning, or thought it was V for victory, no idea (there are pictures of it)
My faves are the long ones like: "More meat on a butcher's apron" meaning a person who's too thin, or a thing is too small. "One wave short of a shipwreck" meaning a person is a bit odd or crazy.
Skiver came from the old factory's its the person that thins the edge of leather before its joined. Its a very easy job in comparison to other work. So everyone wanted to skive off.
Minger, is a Scottish word, it's original meaning is a "ming " is a bad smell, hence a "minger " is someone who smells bad. The English use it to mean someone unattractive.
I believe skiving comes from the leather industry. Skiving was the process of thinning leather and was considered one of the lighter-duty jobs. So if someone asked you where you've been, you would say you have been skiving.
Tell your least favourite person "it'd be impossible for me to like you more than I already do". Say it in a way that gives the impression that you like them. THAT is the British way!
As she said, berk is a shortened form from Berkely Hunt (fox hunters) which rhymes with a word beginning with C and is probably the most unpleasant of insults and often banned. What you call flipping the bird is, in German, referred to as giving someone the sticky finger. I leave that to your imagination. The two fingered salute is, of course, a way of saying F*** off.
Derivation of "Berk": The "Berkley Hunt" was/is a foxhunting pack (horsemen and fox-hounds) resident in Berkley, South Gloucestershire [pron. = "Glostershire"]. The second word, "Hunt" rhymes with the "C" word as in "Berkley Hunt rhymes with " C**t " so the shortened word, "Berk", is used in relatively polite company with everybody knowing it to be a euphemism for C**T without great offence being caused.
05:27 Yes Berk, comes from Berkshire Hunt and is now used to mean a stupid or silly person, often in an affectionate way. But it’s origins actually come from rhyming slang for a far more extreme swear word… Berkshire hunt- c**t (see you next Tuesday).
These were all English insults, not British, she did however do some Scottish insults at the start of the video but then had to bleep them all out as you witnessed.
Never get into a slanging match (exchange of verbal insults) with a Brit... You'll lose!... We have so many insults in our common vocabulary... That you'll either fail to comprehend the barrage of insults flying in your direction... Or you'll be frantically trying to come up with some of your own insults... In an attempt to keep up... Brits are like the Minigun of verbal insults... And almost all others out there... Are the equivalent of a Musket... They're no match... Although there are some countries that come very close... Simply because of their close cultural ties with the British... And that's our Australian cousins down under... They would come a close second because of the high number of expats living over there... And exposing Aussies to some of our verbal insults over many many years... Plus they have a decent amount of their own verbal insults to fall back on too... So verbal insult exchanges with the average Brit... Are in general at least... Deemed to be very unwise indeed. 😂
'Barm' is the froth on top of beer. To be barmy might originally an indication of getting too close to booze. (See also 'barm cake' a bread bun originally made with barm from beer.)
"Wazzack" is a lot like "pillock", but the football team AFC Wimbledon, in particular in the early 90s, when Vinny Jones was there, were also known as "the Barmy Army"! And while Vinny may have been known as a hard man, he had nothing on the Leeds Legends, particularly those under Don Revie, like Johnny Giles, Billy Bremner, Terry Yorath, Peter Lorimer and Eddie Grey to name literally five!
if a Brit insults you then he probably likes you to some extent. It's the really polite ones you need to keep an eye on!
Often you wont know you have been insulted.
@@stephenlee5929 We use subtlety from time to time.
If you were to ding my tank with an RPG, that wouldn't necessarily be the time.
It's an interesting feature of the English language that we can use quite exceptionally rude words with close friends, and yet if you were to use quite a mild term they would feel like they had their epaulettes ripped off and slapped about the face with a glove.
Yeh, as the saying goes....you only call a true mate, c*nt and a true c*nt, mate.
So true
"Build on the flanks of Etna where the sullen smoke-puffs float -
Or bathe in tropic waters where the lean fin dogs the boat -
Cock the gun that is not loaded, cook the frozen dynamite -
But oh, beware my Country, when my Country grows polite!"
(Rudyard Kipling - _Et Dona Ferentes_ )
Here's a very subtle form of insult. A foreign woman is being shown into a mansion by a British butler. She says, ''This place is like a prison.'' The butler replies, ''I'm afraid you have the advantage of me madam.''
Excellent.
To perfection 👌
Plus it gives that perfect tickle 🤭
said like.. "moddom"
@@0utcastAussie “Moddom” is how ‘common’ people pronounce madam when they’re _trying_ to sound posh. 😂
@@221b-Maker-Street
Excellent point! As a bit of a linguistic snob, I take the same view of those who prounounce _circumstance_ as 'circum-STARNCE' (when, in any case, the stress should be on the first syllable), and _envelope_ as 'ON-velope' (in pseudo-French style)😆😆😆
When I was on tour in China we were teaching our tour guide some English slang words including minging and knackered. The Captain of the boat trip we were on asked him to do an English announcement for the few English-speaking passengers on the boat and we dared him to include the new words. He didn't disappoint. "If you look over to the right you'll see Fengdu Ghost City but it's minging because the economy is totally knackered." 🤣🤣🤣
Absolute gold, well done!
Bucking frilliant!
In leather working, a skiving knife was used to split the hide. The person who did this was a skiver and was often the only person who worked sitting down. Hence the word became associated with being lazy or getting the easy work, or later, avoiding work (or school) completely.
Interesting, I have never heard that. 👍
From the same root, I suspect, is the noun "skiver" for a leather inlay on a desktop, etc.
One of my favourite nicknames was a guy got himself the nickname "bungalow" because he had nothing upstairs.
Use with care. It can also suggest quite a lot downstairs.
In actual fact when building the first bungalow, the builders were originally planning to make a two-storey house. However, they ran out of bricks half way through. So the foreman came over and said "never mind, just bung a low roof on."
Bungalow is derived from the term Bangla. It means a house built in the Bengal manner.
I like that she chose the most benign, almost quaint and nostalgic of our insults. The kind of insults you’d use with friends or your grandmother 😃
Exactly and some of the ruder ones are actually very funny.
Several years ago I once told someone to offer themselves as specimen to a taxidermist. It sounded much more polite than just saying get stuffed.
i once called someone a "Self Stimulating, hands on operative" he had no clue!!!!
Well there's "go forth and multiply" as an alternative to F off.
Was he into flagellation, necrophilia and bestiality as well?
When you imitate us, it always sounds like you're doing a London accent. Badly! 😅
I know he tries but it's awful
That was an exceptionally good Dick Van Dyke.
Lived in the UK for most of my life and I couldn't do it.
@@helenag.9386 How very Dick Emery, 'but I like it'.
Dick van Dyke springs to mind!
@@whattiler5102 It's not that over-the-top, but I don't think anyone in Britain would be fooled.
Blackadder has some really subtle but nasty ones: 'The mouth moves, the eyes see, but Mr Brain has long since departed.'
Cockney rhyming slang used to be very popular and is still used by some. It's worth checking out. The rule is that you use only the first word of a pair in a phrase to mean something that thymes with the second word. So, 'trouble' means 'wife' (as in 'trouble and strife'). The example she gave was 'Berk', short for Berkshire, as in 'Berkshire Hunt'. So the meaning rhymes with 'hunt', if you get what I mean... 😃 Once you get it, 'Berk' comes across as ruder than it actually is.
What makes me laugh about Rhyming slang is it was invented by the market traders so that they could talk about everyone without their knowledge , then they went around telling everyone how to speak it,
@@DS-wn4dxyes but that’s just the nature of language development. They were encoding their speech using an enigma machine, it was basically a substitution code if you could call it that. It’s hardly pig Latin either. Really all it takes to decipher is a logical leap from observation especially as with it you’re not disguising every word just certain ones- “Alfie is brown bread” “how’d it happen?” “A bottle and stopper coals and coked his Gregory Peck”…a copper broke his neck.
I think maybe, Berk is much more insulting than many people think they are being.
Re invented by market traders, maybe, then telling people what it means, only some of the more common and older stuff, it continues to evolve.
@@arghjayem Except it would be "Alfie's brown", how it happen, "A bottle coaled 'is Gregory", 'though Gregory might be a bit old, link works change over time.
I haven't heard anyone say berk since the 1970's, it sounds very quaint and old fashioned. Nowadays we just go straight for the C word!
Now she only has to explain a few hundred insults the Scots use .Scottish people swearing is a form of art in its self .
See you, year a wee baw bag, so y'are
She did the Scottish insults at the beginning but she had to beep them all out.
"Ugger" - an ugly person. It's a very old word, cognate with ogre which survives in fairy-tales, and orc which was revived by Tolkien.
Whit ar e ye tryin tae imply ya sleekit scunner eh a bawbag.
@@ianjardine7324 😅
Everytime you use that "British accent" a little bit of me dies.
😂😂😂😂😂
"a little bit of me dies"
Yes, being a witness to ANY brutal murder is traumatic; you just have to _brace_ yourself, M'Dear!
Despicable
Yeah. I like this guy, but I wish he'd stop with the accent. Once or twice it was funny but it's getting old, cringey and slightly annoying now.
Having a Bubble.
I did try explaining to my ex husband - “Oi Git Face” was a term of endearment but I’m not sure he believed me 😂
A friend who is a barrister, told me that the greatest insult you could give to a colleague is "How terribly middle class of you."
'Am I allowed to do this on RUclips?... Probably just for a few seconds!' That's the funniest thing I heard on RUclips all evening.
"How to be mildly insulting like polite British". It's bollocks, but not the dog's bollocks.
Your imitating a British accent actually made me laugh out loud - but in a good way!
_Berk_ is a classic example of Cockney rhyming slang (as Siobhan pointed out) - but one which has become socially acceptable. BTW: don't confuse _minger_ with _minge_ : it could get you into a lot of trouble in polite society!😆
Unless it's a minging minge, in which case it could still get them into a lot of trouble, just in a different way 🙂
@@rambledogs2012
"Unless it's a minging minge"
Let's leave Essex Girls out of this! 🤣
@@marvinc9994 Fair play. 😆
@@marvinc9994 Well, they have got a higher sperm count than Essex boys
There is documentary evidence in the form of manuscripts to confirm that the English/Welsh two fingered "salute" originated around the time of Agincourt.
Numpty is my favorite non offensive slang word
Bet you are northern ❤
Go forth and multiply - is a subtle one.
And we Brits have an amazing ability to use the most profane of insults as terms of endearment
My Nan always used to say “Don’t be a Mardy arse”.
Love that expression 😊
I call my 2 year old granddaughter 'mardy pants' when she's playing up.
My dogs a gannet!
He doesn’t bit or chew his food.
He just swallows it whole.
Like a gannet 😂
Back in the 80s Phil Collins was guest staring in Miami Vice, having read the script he suggested an ad-lib, he used the term "you wanker". The American director wasn't familiar with the term and green lighted it. Later someone checked it's meaning and the scene had to be reshot.
I remember seeing that very episode. It was left in, in the one I saw. Very amused and mildly shocked. I never saw any repeats.
At the end of the episode of the Simpsons featuring U2 Mr Burns calls one of them w****r but it's usually censored now. I don't know if they realised at first how rude it is.
@@michaelcaffery5038 it shouldn't be the word that is offensive in it's self, but they way in which it is delivered send at whom it is targeted. I think people get too hung up on the vocabulary.
Then along came Spike in Buffy and they got around the censors constantly by using wanker, bollocks etc.
My American daughter-in-law has taken on some of my son's sayings and one day at work (they live in the US) she said to her colleagues about something being really manky. They were all WTF, lol. Manky isn't an insult as such, it just means physically dirty, although you could call someone that if you wanted to.
The fact you didn't just take her word for any of the insults, and looked them up yourself is amazing. I've watch so many reaction videos and I've never seen anyone else fact check the information. You really surprised me.
Thanks, I look forward to seeing more of your content.
"Thick as Mince" is a good one.
Also, if something is "Bollocks" is means real crap, but if something is the "Dogs Bollocks" it apparently means excellent. Also, Mutt's Nuts/Mutz Nutz.
See also "shit" and "the shit"
A guy at work is nicknamed "pothole"..because you either want to avoid him or fill him in😅
I remember as a child, being fascinated when I heard the name of a character being said in an episode of Mork & Mindy.
He was called "Mister Wanker".
Wanker has a very different meaning over here, basically another variation on Tosser.
I once said to my immediate boss, "Were you born a prat or do you have to work hard at it?". I kept my job - and he eventually got sacked for being a total prat!! 😅😅
Excellent! You've certainly brought some cheer into MY day😀😀😀
My aunt married a man called Pratt, she really must have loved him
@@lynhugell6563
One of the most unpleasant surnames I've ever come across is _Stench_ . That must have caused many hilarities in the classroom, and made for difficult romantic liaisons later on. Imagine if THAT was substituted for 007's surname!
• The two finger (V) salute = F*** Off!
• The one finger (flippin the bird) = Up yours!
Supposedly, the origin of sticking two fingers up, comes from the battle of agincourt. British archers would stick them up to the french to show they still had their fingers (needed to fire arrows). The french would cut them off if they caught them.
@@AndrewDKinsey As indeed everyone else knows who watched the same video as you: the presenter explains that legend, and our host plays with it and then has to go and look up "apocryphal" in this context. Yes, we're all watching the same show you are!
There's an easy way most Brits make words into an insult.
Think of a random word... sausage, daffodil, teapot, football, etc. 🤔
Then put one of the following in front of it... bloody, total, absolute, complete & utter.
e.g.
you total daffodil
you bloody sausage
you absolute teapot
you complete & utter football
Instant insults. 🤣
I got a 3-day ban on FB for calling someone a 'silly sausage'!
Yup, we can turn any inanimate object into an insult.
You can also use any noun as a verb in the past tense to describe someone as drunk. It's a bit middle-class:
"He got trolleyed at the wedding reception" or "He was ratted" is so much more polite than "he was as pissed as a fart".
@@lindsayheyes925 "Nissed as a pewt"? ;-)
(Drunk as a Lord/skunk)
It also works well for instant threats that seem disarming but aren't actually threats.
Just take any verb-noun pair:
"Oh yeah? Well I'll wax your bicycle!"
"Oh yeah? Well I'll lather your onions!"
"Oh yeah? Well I'll drum your boiler!"
There’s an Arctic Monkey’s song called Mardybum. It’s very very good!
I was hopng he might stumble across it when searching up the meaning as I knew it would be top suggested result
You have a wonderful speaking voice ( unusual for an American lol) it’s very relaxing like an hypnotist 😂
Popular in Ireland: gobshite, langer, eejit, dirtbird, plank and gheebag 😂
4:50 Berk derives from the cockney rhyming slang from Berkeley Hunt which was a famous hunting area near London. It should be noted that Soho is a hunting call from any hunt member shouted upon spotting the fox. The response from the Master of the Hunt is Tally Ho commanding all to give chase.
Also worth noting that the place Berkeley is pronounced Barkley, which most Americans get understandably wrong, sane goes for the county Berkshire…. I know it’s weird 😂
Years ago, at an 🏴 England v 🇦🇺 Australia cricket match. The barmy army statered singing
Get your shit stars, get your shit stars, get your shit stars off our flag. 🇦🇺V🏴 the greatest rivalry
You're so entertaining. I'm still working my way through them all. You have a lovely gentle voice.
As a Brit it really stands out when someone non-British puts up two fingers meaning "two".
Don't forget 'bellend' and the saying guaranteed to confuse non native English speakers 'Taking the piss'.
"Sit on it and swivel"...
... is the verbal vesion of the 'flippin the bird'.
Yeah she's right about where berk comes from, but even most Brit's don't know that and it's much less offensive. Although even the c word is not necessarily as offensive over here.
That may have been the origin and original meaning, but I would suggest it's use now is more akin to calling someone an idiot.
The American comedian who now resides in the U.K. Reg Dwight Hunter says it takes you three weeks to realise that Brits have insulted you! That is how us Brits have taken the art of insulting to the next level.
Another trait of ours is sarcasm and we use it liberally.
Dry wit is a close cousin and much more effective
The Brits are also extremely good at sarcasm.
No we're not😁
As if you'd know.
nahhhh
Ooh are we?
I'm Aussie but love plonker, pillock and muppet. 😄 We wouldn't tiptoe around with "berk" though!
We don't! They have to be careful because it's on RUclips. We use the C word liberally in the UK 😂
Don't even have a try.
We've been practicing this for centuries.
Handed down from generation to generation.
Skiving originates from the shoe making industry. The edges of two pieces of leather that are going to be stitched together are thinned to half thickness so that the joint is less bulky. This is the first operation in traditional shoe making where the operator is able to sit down, hence ; skiving = sitting on your arse when everybody else is busy on their feet.
Your "British accent face", combined with your Michael Caine-esque accent is very funny.
My mother used to use mardy. We are from Birmingham. So most frequently we talked about small child being mardy.
In my part of Yorkshire we use "maungy". It means the same thing.
Yeah, moving from Leicestershire to York I had to drop Mardy as people didn't know it. We tend to say radgy or stroppy in our house
East Mids here & we’ve always used it
Yes - it's a nice word. I think I'll try and introduce it here, in the Beautiful South!
Along the same lines as pillock, one of my favourites is wazzock. Puzzock is one from my Gran who was Coventry-based. And one from the annals of Monty Python: "What a silly bunt."
I as going to suggest wazzock, it is brilliant.
Bounder: Anyway you're interested in one of our adventure holidays?
Tourist: Yes I saw your advert in the bolour supplement
Bounder: The what?
Tourist: The bolour supplement
Bounder: The color supplement?
Tourist: Yes I'm sorry I can't say the letter 'B'
Bounder: C?
Tourist: Yes that's right. It's all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a schoolboy. I was attacked by a bat
Bounder: A cat?
Tourist: No a bat
Bounder: Can you say the letter 'K'
Tourist: Oh yes, Khaki, king, kettle, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford
Bounder: Why don't you say the letter 'K' instead of the letter 'C'
Tourist: what you mean.....spell bolour with a K
Bounder: Yes
Tourist: Kolour. Oh that's very good, I never thought of that! what a silly bunt
Twazzock: The Gloucestershire version.
I love that we can add the word complete to pretty much all of them for emphasis
abrupt ending lol youve clearly stopped giving a f@*& 🤣🤣
Strangers are 99% polite to eachother, but once you're considered familiar/a friend, then you'll be greeted with "How you doing, you balding spasm tosser." We have a Jordanian working with us and he is learning English endearing insults very well. 😅
The two finger salute predates the archer myth but it does sound good.
Cupid Stunt springs to mind. Not sure why. (Google that if you dare!)
Spoonerism.
Dear dead Kenny Everett. Still missed.
It was all done in the best possible taste.@@Leo-rs8mv
@@Leo-rs8mv Yes, very much so.
Or cunning stunt
A pal of mine asked a female announcer at a fair to ask if anyone had seen Mike Hunt.
Say it quickly.
Best American insult I heard was in a restaurant in Florida. This guy at a nearby table was obviously not getting the service he expected. He turned around to the the waitress and said "you're either a waitress or an arshole, you can't be both". I was in stitches 😅😂😂😂
I've used and heard all these words, it isn't until I watch a video like this I realise how funny they are. My personal favourite on that list is Tosser.
Here's a good Geordie one for you:
'Radgie' = Crazy person.
'Radge' = Crazy.
'Divn't invite wor Davie, he's a pure radgie'
or
'Watch oot, wor Davie's gannin' radge'.
also used in edinburgh
JJ, from the black country in the uk, yoam a yampy sod, look that one up
I'm from Rowley, and I can honestly say most of the wenches round here are yampy.
British people do sarcasm like no other nationality on Earth. The kind of insults that arise out of pure unmitigated sarcasm is something to behold.
Ming in Scots means smell. Pillock is actually a slang term for the middle leg, but few remember it. Gannet in this context is pure Scots. Berkshire hunt - the female equivalent of pillock. Apocryphal (not entirely an insult) - of dubious origin, referring to the archer story, Cf, "Apocrypha," bits of the Bible of dubious authorship..
Skiver/Skiving actually comes from the leather process of skiving - which is the thinning of leather and was one of the few jobs performed sitting down. Hence, it was seen as an easier job and so "skiving" became synonymous with avoiding hard work.
New insults evolve all the time, as language grows and develops. A (relatively) recent one is"You muppet!" (foolish, careless, no idea what to do). As noted in the comments, Scottish insults are at a whole next level, as are many in our various accents and dialects, e.g. Geordie andYorkshire. See "Bauchle" and "Barmpot"
One of my favourites
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"Having your arse in your hands"
Meaning you're unhappy, upset and angry about something, and probably getting really moody and sulky over something silly.
Eg
Jenny has gone to her room in a strop because she doesn't like her new hair cut. She's really got her arse in her hands over it " !
In the uk not everyone speaks with a London accent
My go-to insult is “ah bless”
My favourite UK insults
* Bell End - (tip of the penis)
* Bell Fruit (variation on the above)
* Belter (can mean something or someone is great, but also can mean the above depending on tone and context)
* F*ck Nuggett (just sounds good not sure the exact meaning but I think that's up to the user)
* Scrote (from Scrotum, usually describing a young male Teen who is causing trouble "the little Scrote set fire to the bin"
* Lettuce (means they are stupid, very mild insult brilliant when joking and brilliant when angry with someone)
* Cowbag (Cow and Bag are insults , usually towards women, Cowbag combines them, mild and jovial, a young girl might say to her friend "Oi stop taking my chips you Cowbag!!" and they would probably laugh afterwards....similar apply to both Cow and Bag, but Cowbag has the extra "bants" factor, it has a comedic meaning usually 99.9999999% of the time)
big girls blouse, bellend and knobjockey are amongst my favourites
Fun fact: Churchill has actually done the two fingered salute. Whether he knew the meaning, or thought it was V for victory, no idea (there are pictures of it)
Churchill's V-sign (with the palm outward) was the same as the later 'peace sign'.
He had done the sign with the back of his hand forward too, I think even the first time he was pictured holding up a V
Of course he knew. He'd been a soldier.
My Dad used to say "Thick as shit in the neck of a bottle" lol. I think minger comes from a Scottish word, "Minging" meaning smelly.
There's also the Scottish "ugger" which is cognate with the English "ogre" - an ugly person.
Omfg JJ 😂 Your impressions are GOLDEN 🤣
they're awful
Telling people they're bellends is one of my particular favourites
Tosser=wanker
I often say "Crown" (Crown & Anchor)
My fave is 'a brick short of a load' - oh, and 'Away with the fairies'. We also have a saying very similar to your own; "Ah, bless". ;-)
My faves are the long ones like:
"More meat on a butcher's apron" meaning a person who's too thin, or a thing is too small.
"One wave short of a shipwreck"
meaning a person is a bit odd or crazy.
A popular mild insult is to call someone a muppet, which obviously comes from across the pond.
Skiver came from the old factory's its the person that thins the edge of leather before its joined. Its a very easy job in comparison to other work. So everyone wanted to skive off.
Minger, is a Scottish word, it's original meaning is a "ming " is a bad smell, hence a "minger " is someone who smells bad.
The English use it to mean someone unattractive.
I believe skiving comes from the leather industry. Skiving was the process of thinning leather and was considered one of the lighter-duty jobs.
So if someone asked you where you've been, you would say you have been skiving.
Love the way she describes the word then he immediately looks up the word 😅😅 erm...why ? She's just explained the meaning
Because a lot of the time it’s wrong. Some of the “things about the U.K.” channels are atrocious.
I like to use "onanist", rather than "tosser", as most people seem to think that it is a compliment ( this sort of proves the point).
"Did you enjoy that?
"It was most enervating"
"Why, thank you!"
Tell your least favourite person "it'd be impossible for me to like you more than I already do".
Say it in a way that gives the impression that you like them.
THAT is the British way!
That one's equally good when presented with awful food.
Yes, we are very good at finding the right words to not lie and speak with total positive sounding honesty 😅
As she said, berk is a shortened form from Berkely Hunt (fox hunters) which rhymes with a word beginning with C and is probably the most unpleasant of insults and often banned. What you call flipping the bird is, in German, referred to as giving someone the sticky finger. I leave that to your imagination. The two fingered salute is, of course, a way of saying F*** off.
Fun fact 'mardy' was popularised by the song 'mardy bum' by the Sheffield band The Arctic Monkeys.
A toss pot or tosser originally derived from drinking heavily and tossing ones pot of ale consuming alcohol rapidly and excessively.
Derivation of "Berk": The "Berkley Hunt" was/is a foxhunting pack (horsemen and fox-hounds) resident in Berkley, South Gloucestershire [pron. = "Glostershire"]. The second word, "Hunt" rhymes with the "C" word as in "Berkley Hunt rhymes with " C**t " so the shortened word, "Berk", is used in relatively polite company with everybody knowing it to be a euphemism for C**T without great offence being caused.
05:27 Yes Berk, comes from Berkshire Hunt and is now used to mean a stupid or silly person, often in an affectionate way. But it’s origins actually come from rhyming slang for a far more extreme swear word… Berkshire hunt- c**t (see you next Tuesday).
These were all English insults, not British, she did however do some Scottish insults at the start of the video but then had to bleep them all out as you witnessed.
Skiver is also an Italian word "schivare " which means to miss something. Great video 😊 ps schi is pronounced sk in Italian .
Never get into a slanging match (exchange of verbal insults) with a Brit... You'll lose!... We have so many insults in our common vocabulary... That you'll either fail to comprehend the barrage of insults flying in your direction... Or you'll be frantically trying to come up with some of your own insults... In an attempt to keep up... Brits are like the Minigun of verbal insults... And almost all others out there... Are the equivalent of a Musket... They're no match... Although there are some countries that come very close... Simply because of their close cultural ties with the British... And that's our Australian cousins down under... They would come a close second because of the high number of expats living over there... And exposing Aussies to some of our verbal insults over many many years... Plus they have a decent amount of their own verbal insults to fall back on too... So verbal insult exchanges with the average Brit... Are in general at least... Deemed to be very unwise indeed. 😂
Nice to see you today.
You've really mastered that Australian accent.
"Scumbag" when the insult is directed at a politician!
'Barm' is the froth on top of beer. To be barmy might originally an indication of getting too close to booze. (See also 'barm cake' a bread bun originally made with barm from beer.)
These ‘insults’ are very polite.
I have always wondered what the length of the planks has to do with their thickness.
"Wazzack" is a lot like "pillock", but the football team AFC Wimbledon, in particular in the early 90s, when Vinny Jones was there, were also known as "the Barmy Army"! And while Vinny may have been known as a hard man, he had nothing on the Leeds Legends, particularly those under Don Revie, like Johnny Giles, Billy Bremner, Terry Yorath, Peter Lorimer and Eddie Grey to name literally five!
Ace vid...and your English accent is pretty damn good 👍
Most of our best insults do include incredible crude swearing I must admit lol