What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?

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• black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A lot of Americans who say “fuck” will still lose their goddamn minds if you say “cunt”.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I say cunt a lot as an American. My mom hates it which is at least partially why I love it. Shit cunt is my favorite variation.

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    • porksnort@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Once the shock value of a simple ‘cunt’ has worn off, ‘thundercunt’ is my next escalation.

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  • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In America, it is a harsh term for the vagina. As a gendered term, it would be considered a slur. For some reason, "pussy" is more acceptable but carries the same connotations. The latter is used to describe a coward, while the former would be more akin to "bitch."

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    • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, it can be, but there are also other ways to use the term. It also is the only word in English that refers to the whole gentalia, not just the vagina or some other part. Gee I wonder why the word for female genatalia is considered dirty to a bunch of puritanical Americans. Reclaim it.

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  • Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I was virtually raised by Australians so i’m a little more comfortable using that word than most people in America.

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  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People in the small-town South don’t take it well when you call them sister-fuckers, either, as I quickly learned.

    Didn’t stop me, though.

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  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know one, they get all bent over twat too

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    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In England, twat (pronounced to rhyme with “hat”) is barely considered rude.

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• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like calling people inanimate objects. Being angrily called a “fucking waffle” or a “God damned acorn” hits different than the normal curses and slurs

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  • NovaSel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Write that down! Write that down!

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Listen up, lollipops!”

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  • dihutenosa@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Guess what “glans” means.

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• IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For best results, it depends on the context.

  For example, when I’m dealing with people who cannot (or refuse) to do the simplest of tasks, I’ve found myself muttering “ugh, just read the instructions I wrote you troglodyte”.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Classic. Troglodyte is an underrated one. I also like cretin.

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You could go full British. “You absolute/complete/total (any noun)”

  You absolute sponge.

  You complete brick.

  You total signpost.

  Its all in the delivery. Say it with enough malice and anything is an insult.

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  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    **Puts on British voice

    ‘‘You tooting foghorn of ignorance’’

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  • toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you UTTER building material

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    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You fucking spanner.

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• bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Moist

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  • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My friend group uses Moist to mean awesome.

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s pretty moist, my homie.

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    • klu9@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stop trying to make “moist” happen

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  • klu9@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But I don’t think tankies would mind being called “Moist”.

    Oh, sorry, I thought you meant “Maoist”.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    he he

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  • Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Heard a lesbian once say they have the same reaction to the term “shaft”

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    • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is a Dead Like Me series reference

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• Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Niggard/niggardly sounds like a really, really, awful choice for a word to describe someone cheap like Scrooge. It’s not a slur it just sounds way too much like one. The use of the word is controversial despite the only connection the two words share is how they sound.

  I wouldn’t use the word around people though. Explaining how a word that sounds racist isn’t racist makes you appear to be more racist. It isn’t a slur but gets treated as if it was one.

  ✓ quite offensive ✓ not a slur X you probably still shouldn’t use it

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  • rat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The only reason people use this word is because it sounds like the slur. If you’re choosing words just so you can say “Actually, it’s technically not a slur,” you’re just being racist.

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  • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It never matters what is, only what people think, is.

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This essentially sums up cutting education and ramping propaganda.

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  • 50shadesofautism@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It could be argued that the term comes from racist roots and therefore using it is racist.

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You could argue that if you make up the argument I guess.

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• zlatiah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In a professional setting: disappointment is the strongest word I’ve ever said to someone

  Outside that? I don’t know if there is a good cutoff between slur/not slur… The one I vividly remember was old Chinese social media users (before the blockage) calling some people “Wumao” (translates to 50 cents). This is implying that the person is being a troll, and they did it because they were so pathetic that they accepted a 50-cent commission from the government to say good/bad things on the internet. Probably still the worst insult I could imagine till this day

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• Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Call someone sticky, and dont use it like an insult say it like you are being genuine. If they try to hand you something shy away and be like “oh um no I’m sorry, you’re just kinda sticky” garentee that’ll leave a mark

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• _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the answer is obviously “weatherboy”

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that a reference to something?

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    • Cybexx@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wouldnt you like to know Weatherboy

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• GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Muppet, munter, twat. Just start using UK insults

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• ted_pikul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Champ.

  Yahoo#1: “The Earth is flat, didn’t you know?”

  You: “Alright, Champ.”

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• RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m french and I tend to swear using disgraced politician. You say “Sac à manuel valls” instead of “Sac à merde” ( Bag of shit ) and you can probably do the same with other well hated politician. There nothing like blamming Manuel Valls when my toe.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The only French I know is le chat mange. I’m a big fan of your language, even though it confuses the hell out of me.

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    • RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It confuse the hell out of me too. The rules are confusing and there is often stuff that contradict itself.

      I’m usualy make more mistake in french than in english. I even tend to speak english when I’m too tired because french consume too much brain power.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Must be nice to have disgraced politicians. Wouldn’t work in my country.

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    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’re not done yet. There’ll be a lot, but it might take a while.

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    • RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You must have some, you just have to find them.

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• Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  American

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  • lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bro said the A-word 💀

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    • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And if you wanna feel extra spiteful, use American’t

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• JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lately I’ve been a big fan of “bungalow”, to signify that someone has nothing upstairs.

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• TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not a word, but my favorite recent addition was when someone told me her husband, rather than flip people off in road rage situations, just looks at them and gives them a thumbs down gesture, and it makes them so much more mad. I’ve been doing it whenever I see Cybertrucks.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When in doubt about swearing look to the british. Cunt and bugger.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Since when is cunt not a swearword you fucking donut

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      um. he did not ask for something that was not a swear. He finds fuck and shit to be to boring to use. He wants a non slur. Granted you can reach and say cunt being female anatomy is a femal slur but given I hear it more used for men. eh. also maybe you can related bugger to gay but its a stretch to.

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  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The range of invective is far richer than that. American terms of abuse are far more limited.

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  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the British are SO GOOD at insults, if their accent wasn’t so damn hilarious roadrage would be terrifying

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Presidential.

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• bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Come to the Netherlands and you can swear with all the diseases you want! Except cancer - some people will take genuine offense if you do that. But typhus, cholera, tuberculosis? Those are a-okay!

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Liberal/fascist

  People seem to use them to mean ‘people I don’t like’ regardless of the actual meanings of the words

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  • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Liberals call themselves liberals so how is that an hurtful insult or even an insult?

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It just doesn’t sting enough

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• shaggyb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Republican

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  • bomberesque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Definitely a slur

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love ones that make it seems like you’re talking down to a kid

  Flapjack, pipsqueak, piece (as in “you piece”), dingodile, jackwagon etc.

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  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On the subject of one that make it seem like you are talking down to a kid, my personal favorite is twip from Batman Beyond.

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ChatGPT

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• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pimmel.

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• Generica@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Piss slit

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• Jym66@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fucktard

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  • RiverRabbits@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ending a word with “-tard” references the “r-slur” against disabled people. Regardless of if you still approve of its use (I don’t) it therefore misses the question asked.

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    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “You leotard!”

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a portmanteau of a slur

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a good one. Once a small machine shop in my hometown had their adjustable sign say “gravely bad-boy scag” which sounds like the best insult ever, but apparently all 3 are brands of lawnmowers that they sold.

  Me and my sister still call each other scag to this day lol

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• breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fungdark

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Viz invented the word “fitbin” as the most offensive word ever.

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• ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Twat

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• JandroDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  cunt

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