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World's Most Beautiful Girl
The terms may be boring – but that artwork ROCK!
Divine
I sense that I am going to see a lot of weird words in forums from now on. Anyway, I know where to check the meanings and use a lot of different insult back at them! Good post.
Robert Seddon
You’re going out on a bit of a limb with miserere; it appears to have been in full ‘miserere mei’ (loosely, ‘pity me’) that referred to ileus, and the OED marks the sense obs. (with a religious sense still current). Saying ‘have pity’ in Latin isn’t very promising as an insult.
Jo-Ann Burton
I love the new artwork on some of the posts. Who is the artist. Give them two high fives from me.
The blog just keeps getting better and better and in My Humble Opinion it’s the best blog around. Great work guys.
Jo-Ann
HeartlessMachine
Edu- Cagafuego = fireshitter.
Cacafuego = shitfire.
I personally loved this sentence: “The English language is chockful of colorful words meaning stupid person, such as: DUMMKOPF”
In all, a fantastic article. Thanks, Neatorama!
PeteRepeat
Great article! Now all I need to do is memorize some of these words and integrate them into my vocabulary.
bean
I’m sure that Canadian musician named Feist would appreciate this. Also, I have a massive book simply titled The Big Book of Insults, that is nothing but turn of the century American put-downs. They’re not very funny out of context. I will be using many, many of these though.
ted
I think Grace’s last name is Cacafuego. She just googled herself and got a shock.
kevin
To see the insult “FAIL” in action, check out this video. There’s a part two. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5D7aZpzn8Q
Divine
@ted: lol, it’s funny just to think about it.
Hi, I’m Grace “shit fire”, nice to meet you.
Shaggy
Actually using any of these words to insult some douche would cause the douchery to instantly revert back on you.
avraamov
they left out:
diamerdis
n. a man who is covered in feces
which is my surname. actually.
Leitermann
Scatophagus – scato- (poop), -phagus (eat-er, or -ing)
ex.
You, sir, are a scatophagus.
(or)
Why you lookin’ at me with that scatophagus grin on yer face?
Taurusus
‘Dummkopf’ is actually German, not English, literally ‘Dumb head’. I didn’t bother reading through the comments to see if anyone already pointed this out.
Alex Baldwin
One time I called my girlfriend a trick. Were not together anymore.
irspariah
Since most of the intended targets of these missives will not understand, or care to, what in hell is the point?
Dan
“Well, it’s hard to teach wit – but all of us can learn the next best thing: the approximation of it by obfuscation, i.e. using big, difficult, and obscure words.”
Maybe encourage people to read books to improve their vocabulary rather than add to the legion of dorks using words they’ve memorised but don’t properly understand? Just a thought.
nel
as a french i love the frenchify insult (to contract a venerial disease!!) but i have to warn you: corpulent is a french word, you are going to frenchify yourself if you say it.
Alex
@Jill – Neatorama readers are so smart! I’d never thought anyone would notice 
Johannes Vindenburg
You can’t be insulted by a word you don’t understand.
Only if everyone knew these words could they be insults.
No Fan Of Hillary
What about the one word insult of being called a “Clinton”? For an ignorant, imbecilic, inbred purveyor of false tales (especially about snipers and nuking Iran).
Alex
@Johannes Vindenburg: “You can’t be insulted by a word you don’t understand.”
Oh, no sir, I believe you’re mistaken. That’s the beauty of using these types of words to insult: the persons you just insulted may not know the exact meaning of the word, but they have a feeling that they’ve just been insulted.
Most of them don’t ask what the word means, because nobody likes feeling like a witling.
Rik
You missed out on the best insult I’ve ever dished out.
Necropedaphilliac – someone who has sex with dead children.
Thats the sickest thing I’ve ever heard but also the best insult I’ve ever heard. I made it up about 19 years ago.
lee lee
if you look up ”moron” in the Oxford English dictionary, it only shows one definition. salamander.
have a look see.
Two Toe Joe
Hey Rik, add a ‘narco’ on the front of that. Then you randomly fall asleep while doing the ugly deed… Then maybe ‘bestial’ so its sex with dead young animals… We could go on and on… Narconecrobestialpedaphilliac.
business
Amazing, I can insult people and sound smart at the same time. I will use this immediately and forward this to everyone I know.
12 pack
Way to repost the highlights from “Depraved and Insulting English” guys. I bought this book eight years ago and apparently don’t have anything new to learn. I applaud your efforts to increase the vernacular of everyday Joes, but would’ve thought that I could have found something new.
12 pack
also…@ nel: corpulent is latin in origination, not french–Online Etymology Dictionary
corpulent
from L. corpulentus “fleshy, fat,” from corpus “body” (see corporeal) + -ulentus “full of.”
please eat shit
Jordan Lund
Uxorious.
Best word I learned in 2 years of Latin. The professor kind of danced around it.
“It means, basically, that your wife makes all your decisions for you. But that doesn’t convey how insulting the word is in Latin. It’s really offensive. English doesn’t have an equivalent.”
I raised my hand. “You mean ‘pussy whipped’. Yes, I’m pretty sure every language has a word for that.”
Goose
We forget meritricous, meaning, hooker like. It sounds like it should mean that it brings merit to, but the root of the word is Latin, meritrix (spelling may be a tad out), which, logically, means prostitute.
Alezunde
Some amusing terms.
Interesting that ‘FAIL’ is a tired catchphrase, but replacing the word ‘shit’ with ‘poo’ isn’t.
Linus
I always though that Microsoft is a very bad name for a company (remember insult #3), and Bighard is nsfw 
Frogette
“We’re still not sure which is more insulting”: thanks for the refreshing piece of mindless bigotry. It’s mind blowing how hatred towards the French has become mainstream in US pop culture in just a few years (not that it was unheard of before, but no one would have said something like “French is bad hehehehe” without trying to explain at least a little). I’d be curious to know whether you actually met one French person once in your life and whether you can actually justify this level of unargumented scorn.
Now sorry,got to go, I’m awaited for my monthly bath. With my white flag.
I’m so tired of all this shit.
Juan
French penis smells of feces and vinegar. I should know; it’s been in my rectum.
greg
How could you omit “feculent” from this list?
One of the most useful words in the English language and appropriate for describing most politicians.
Emmjay
Perhaps the term “twerp” is useful.
A “twerp” is a person who inserts false teeth between the cheeks of their arse and bites the buttons off the upholstery of the back seats of taxi cabs.
When you realise how few taxi cabs have button upholstery, you can appreciate how many twerps there are out there.
freckles
WOOHOO! WORDS! I wrote some on my hand to tick off my friends and coccydynias. 
HaPPi like a HiPPo
This highly turdified article is pretty intriguing, more than just a pile of Buncombe! Did it make you a cacafuego yet? A well written illustrative article!
Poison Pen
“Rodomontade” is a noun, meaning a story of such extreme boastfulness that it is highly unlikely to be true. It comes from Rodomonte, king of the Moors, from the Orlando Furioso, who at one point singlehandedly swims a river, knocks down huge wooden church doors with his bare hands, and singlehandedly slaughters hundreds of Christian knights in a terrible rage before making his escape.
Jno. Aubrey, Esq.
I’m surprised that neither you, nor any of the other commentators, mentioned that Cacafuego is the name of the 34-gun Spanish xebec frigate (a kind of privateer, or privately owned fighting ship) that Lt. Jack Aubrey of HM Royal Navy captured in the 14 gun sloop of war HMS Sophie. This event, chronicled in fiction by Patrick O’Brian (1914 – 2000), appeared in _Master and Commander_, the first book of the series of 20 Aubrey-Maturin novels penned by O’Brian between 1970 and 1999.
You can find this book on Google books at http://snipurl.com/MasterAndCommander . It provides a wonderfully detailed view of both naval warfare and European public and private life in the year 1800.
O’Brian’s account of the capture of the Cacafuego, and indeed, of much of Aubrey’s career, is based on the real-life adventures of Lord Thomas Cochrane, whose 14-gun sloop of war HMS Speedy captured a the much larger xebec frigate El Gamo in 1801. Real-life parallels of Aubrey’s feats continue through the novels, providing the reader with painless history lessons covering everything from the British capture of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, to the defeat of HMS Java by USS Constitution off of Brazil, to the taking of USS Chesapeake by HMS Shannon in Nantasket Roads near Boston.
Aubrey’s amourous adventures also receive attention. We won’t soon forget Miss Amanda Smith, of Knocking House, Rutland, Nova Scotia, since “knocking house” is an English slang term for a bordello. Nor will we forget the lesson taught by Aubrey in the first novel: if you wish to advance quickly in the navy, keep your breeches buttoned, and do NOT shtup your commanding officer’s wife!
Peter Weir’s 2003 film, _Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World_, starring Russell Crowe as Aubrey, and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin, is not based directly on either of the books named in the movie’s two-part title. Instead, this film borrows selections from many of the 20 Aubrey-Maturin books to create a brand new story. Despite its re-invention, I believe Weir’s video is true to the spirit of O’Brien’s work, and Crowe’s portrayal of the hero of the novels is sound and sure.
So quick’s the word, and sharp is the action! To your stations, men, and fight — for God, King and Country! Hurrah!
Zav
Under Corpulent:
“no one like a fatty”. You must mean, “no one likes a fatty”. That pesky plural again. Everything else looks legit.
Slappy Jack
Good premise, bad delivery. Really? We’re still vilifying the French? And lamely at that? Such promise, but little follow through.
Wayne Smallman
There is a lot to be said from the judicious use of pointed, and sometimes cryptic insults, which the English language happily accommodates for — you worthless shower of puerile, feculent blatherskites. I bid you good day!
Chichikov
Frenchify made me think of some great Russian slang for syphillis: parizhskii nasmark, or Parisian headcold.
When I was studying Russian a fellow student came running up to me before class. The epitome of a slacker, never prepared, he was looking for an excuse for not having his oral presentation ready. He asked me if I knew the word for cold. I told him it was parizhskii nasmark. He went in to the prof and told him that’s what he had. The teacher laughed for a good ten minutes before telling the guy that if he had the clap, he ought to head over to the student clinic.
Badger lord
Excellent, more words to add to my ever expanding vocabulary.
Pat
Funny… In French, you’d call syphilis “la maladie anglaise” i.e the English disease, and homosexuality “le vice anglais”.
mo abdi lordship
ow fucking days ,
itz pure pwange
brillant words.
loveeee it.
mo abdi lordship
fucking brillant
need sex images
and words but
al gr8
put naked girls
lol
Japanese words
I guess it is good to know as many words as possible, but most of these are probably unknown to most people.
I think everyone's with me here.
Oh please. Try saying this to somebody. You know what they’ll say back?
First, they’ll laugh. Then, “Sorry. I don’t speak smartass.”
lizardlips
I had tears streaming before I finished the second paragraph! This is awesome! Even better than the Shakespearean Insult Kit (email list – went around last year). Much fun!
Isabell
The meanings are HILARIOUS: otherwise known as HYSTERICAL, LAUGHABLE, ENJOYABLE. I used Cacafuego and corpulent in a story I’m working on. Thank you so much, I needed a good insult.
Gerry Donnelly
FICE
Sometimes on a Sunday at Mass
My Gran a soft fice would pass
Often more, in fact quite a medley
Maybe silent, but Lord they were deadly!
Pedantic
Yeah but if someone says “sorry I don’t speak smarta**” simply say some thing along the lines of “oh sorry that’s right you’re just a dumba**”
Ray Frid
I’ve got a good insulting word substitute: “Gahenna” in place of hell or hades. Gahenna is from a Hebrew name for a junk pile-garbage and trash dump in ancient Israel just outside Jerusalem. Used by the ancient prophets as a visual description for bad people after their death-a place of great punishment and torment. Most people don’t know this. Just say, “Go to Gahenna”, and you will have other wondering what you are saying.
k l
who knew that a “slight fart” could launch an international music career and sell a bajillion ipods.
robb
cool !!
microphalus and frenchify are cool.
i’m gonna try them sometime.
Rattrap
For those of you who think it’s no point in calling them these names if they don’t get it, the idea is to do it in front of a whole group of people. They will know his vocab sucks and laugh out loud. And if any of them know what you’re talking about, then the guy you’re insulting is in deep shit
OLIVIA
omg dis is so amazing lol next tym am in an argument i no wat 2 say hahahahaha
guest
um if i said any of this when i was trying to fry somebody i would get laughed at right in my face. think i’ll just stick to the boring ones i know
DoIReallyHaveToPutMyNameHere?
Haha microphallus or w/ever really works if u wanna crush a guys ego. Its friken awesome.
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Edu
CheeseDuck
Grace
badgirl
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