The Big Book of Being Rude: 7000 Slang Insults
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My favorite insult from this book: "Go to hell and help your mother make bitch pie!"
A few of these made me laugh out loud:
* In the 19th century, someone who worried excessively was a "fret-kidney."
* "A woman who dissects her acquaintances over tea and muffins" was a "muffin-walloper." In African-American slang of the 1940s, a gossipy woman was a "gatemouth."
* In 1980s college slang, a misfit was a "penis wrinkle."
* In 1940s African-American slang, a thin woman was a "straight-up six o'clock girl."
* In 1970s U.S. college-campus slang, a woman who looks attractive by night but not in daylight is a "night fighter."
* In the 1600s, a drunkard was an "afternoon man" or a "fuddlecap."
* To 1950s Australians, the type of person who cannot drink without becoming obstreperously drunk was a "one-pot screamer."
* In Glasgow, Scotland, in the late 1800s, a child who could eat its weight in groceries was a "breadsnapper."
* A synonym for "rich person" in the late 1800s was a "turkey-buyer."
* To African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s, a police officer in a patrol vehicle was "the man who rides the screaming gasser" and one on foot was "the man with the headache stick." But to gay people in the 1980s, a cop was "our friend with the talking brooch."
* A teacher is an "alphabet slinger" or a "chalk-and-talker."
A few of these made me laugh out loud:
* In the 19th century, someone who worried excessively was a "fret-kidney."
* "A woman who dissects her acquaintances over tea and muffins" was a "muffin-walloper." In African-American slang of the 1940s, a gossipy woman was a "gatemouth."
* In 1980s college slang, a misfit was a "penis wrinkle."
* In 1940s African-American slang, a thin woman was a "straight-up six o'clock girl."
* In 1970s U.S. college-campus slang, a woman who looks attractive by night but not in daylight is a "night fighter."
* In the 1600s, a drunkard was an "afternoon man" or a "fuddlecap."
* To 1950s Australians, the type of person who cannot drink without becoming obstreperously drunk was a "one-pot screamer."
* In Glasgow, Scotland, in the late 1800s, a child who could eat its weight in groceries was a "breadsnapper."
* A synonym for "rich person" in the late 1800s was a "turkey-buyer."
* To African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s, a police officer in a patrol vehicle was "the man who rides the screaming gasser" and one on foot was "the man with the headache stick." But to gay people in the 1980s, a cop was "our friend with the talking brooch."
* A teacher is an "alphabet slinger" or a "chalk-and-talker."
Journal Entry 2 by rampallion at Potbelly's Sandwich Works - Davis St in Evanston, Illinois USA on Sunday, March 8, 2015
Released 9 yrs ago (3/11/2015 UTC) at Potbelly's Sandwich Works - Davis St in Evanston, Illinois USA
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