Mine is Blowh
So, calling someone a bast-ard, implies that their mother slept around on many beds that weren’t the marriage bed. Does that mean it all comes back to calling your mother a whore?
As is every insult
“Yer daddy was a 2 pump chump!”
Edit: Not sure how that comes back to “mom’s a whore”
Because she clearly needed more than two pumps.
Most people do. Not her fault
-the barista staring blankly at me in hopes that I’ll just answer how much mocha syrup I wanted-
I think in English there is also:
- Comparing the subject to an animal, such as a dog.
- Slurs for various minorities.
- Names for ‘vulgar’ body parts, or the act of sex itself.
- Names for human waste products.
- Literal ‘curse words’ / literal ‘profanity’, such as “damn” or “hell”, which imply the subject will go to, or just allude to the existence of, the Christian hell.
- Literal swears, as in oaths. This is pretty rare in modern English aside from "I swear to god… ". The word “gadzooks” is actually a minced version of “God’s Hooks” (the nails used in the crucifixion), which was probably shortened from “I swear on God’s Hooks”. Its pretty funny how something that was probably deadly serious in the past has been diluted so much that now only cartoon characters say it.
Where’s the custard?
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat
There you go. I cust too much.
I will always appreciate the blink182 version
Do not investigate how do they call a person that retes
Apparently that one doesn’t follow this rule, and is instead derived from the Latin word “retardare,” meaning “to make something go slower.”
As a Spanish speaker, I was already aware of that, but imagine if someone thought that the act of reting was a thing by analogy
What a smartard.
So Richard is too rich? Is that why he’s a Dick?
Also
- dull
- boll
- mall
- stand
“What are we going to call this fish? It’s got… so much pilch… maybe a bit too much if I’m honest”
Jean-Luc Pic
I love etymology
Why?
people who confuse entomology and etymology bug me in ways i can’t put into words
classic
Etymology
: A branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies (origin/history of words)Entomology
: A branch of zoology that deals with insects
“-ard” would mean not so much “excessively” as “by their/its nature”; i.e. a seed/condiment whose very nature is mustiness, a person conceived out of wedlock (which was considered a black mark on one’s character back then), one who is habitually drunk, and so on
I’ve heard that the term “son of a gun” has a similar origin.
See, when a sailing vessel would visit port all the whores would row out to meet it. They’d be hauled into the gun ports and… ply their wares.
Since they didn’t know who in the gun crew was the father, their boys were “sons of a gun”
What about standard
I think there’s a wacky Japanese comic book about this
I’d say its more bizarre than wacky.
Don’t be too adventurous now
The body standards are out of this warudo
According to etymonline, it’s from the French estandart meaning a military banner, or from the Medieval Latin standardum. These in turn possibly come from the old Frankish standhard, so literally to stand hard like a flag or a long-standing tradition.
See also: haggard, laggard, braggart (this one changed to a ‘t’ for some reason), dastard, dullard, and a few others. It’s uncommon but it’s out there!
Dotard!
My utterly baseless theory on braggart is that those folks have always been so MF irritating, through history, that people pronouncing the word just tend to do so using a clipped, terse voice.
“Oh, m’lady, pray tell? T’was Kevin spinning such fanciful yarns for thee? (grits teeth) UGH, that braggart”
I don’t care if it’s true.
What about retard? SCNR
