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Texan was another one. And Clampett, which I believe made reference to the Beverley Hillbillies
circa 1983-86Auntie Velma
or
just Velma
followed by a pushing forward of the tongue in your mouth under your bottom lip!
where it came from I have no idea to this day?
akk, . . think it was because of Velma out of Scooby Doo!
And then of course, you stopped immediately. Chinny reckon
i did stop immediately 🙂 probably annoyed quite a few people by making a point of explaining what each term meant when friends used the terms.... mum was very good at making me feel guilty!
EDIT, what does "chinny reckon" mean?
Muppet, but ****ing Muppet has more of a ring to it
Overheard someone refer to someone else as Thrush .. "because he's an irritating c**t"
Chinny reckon, or for southerners, Itchy chin: [img] 
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Spaz and Flid were common at our school. Bit odd that 'flid' was still going in the 80s, given that the drug it references was a late 50s thing IIRC. Spaz fell into disuse somewhat after we had an extraordinary general assembly to highlight the problem with saying "spaz" to someone who actually was.
'Gay' was a popular insult at primary school, usually hurled completely inappropriately ("urgh, you held hands with a girl, you gaylord").
Spakker, bummer, various variations of 'nob,' many many racial slurs... trying to remember what else.
EDIT, what does "chinny reckon" mean?
Ah, that was a test. Anyone? Bueller?
I once got called a lesbian by an eight year old girl in the year above me. I went home and asked my mum what a lesbian was. Laugh? She nearly died.
Southerners used Chinny reckon. = "I don't quite believe you".
Squid-beak was a recent one. From squid beak of the bum arse (Chris Morris)
Southerners used Chinny reckon. = "I don't quite believe you".
I'm reasonably sure that this one is national. It's a reference to the most memorable feature of one Jimmy Hill, who was found out to be lying about something fairly important (I forget what that was now, tax returns or extra-marital affairs or some such in all likelyhood, it's not really the salient part of the tale).
... though, oddly, I can't find any reference to that now that I come to look. I'm [i]sure[/i] it's true though, I remember watching it on TV at the time.
I do believe it bastardised into "Jimmy hill" at some stage. (or maybe it came from there..)
Our variation on chinny reckon was 'chinny bill'
Flid was still around in the 80s as people with the resultant disabilities caused by the drug would have been in their 20s and 30s, I would have thought
It's a reference to the most memorable feature of one Jimmy Hill
it was bastardised to jimmy hill on account of his large chin.. but the etymology is a great deal older than even the chinmeister himself..
Have we had "dime bar" yet?
Bizarrely, around about age 14/15 in my school "paedo" was the insult of choice.
At my school, a 'bennie' was a tantrum. Same etymology, I presume the otherwise mild-mannered Bennie freaked out in one of the episodes or something, I don't really remember. But, 'throwing a benny' was a common occurrence
Ours too, but i thought because it was a kind of fit.
A 'Velma' is a double 'Gabrielle'.
Rogers etc.
Have we had "dime bar" yet?
Armadillo!
bawbag
bawjaws
fannybaws
Ours too, but i thought because it was a kind of fit.
That would be "throwing an eppy," I believe.
We were a politically correct lot, weren't we. I wonder what the cool kids call each other these days?
Gay-bo
When someone got reeeallly angry, they were said to be in a right 'hess'.
We even had a kid called Hess who was a sparky little so and so.
I wonder what the cool kids call each other these days?
stwer ? 😉
[i]Tinner[/i] if you didn't dare do something.
[i]Pecker[/i] to insult.
My favourite's at the moment: F*ck Stick, Sh!t S4ck and Turd Bag
Dill - truncation of sex toy?
Puffhouse
Fag
Divster
F*ckpig (sometimes pre-fixed with snipe-nosed; my favourite usage)
grundy sniffer or dickweed was always "popular".
or hom.
it feels like thursday afternoon tourettes.
the missus' pet name for me is gaylord
TRHjnr's insult of choice is either "ya mista" or "yah witness". I'm soooo not down wit da kidz 🙁
Only one mention of Joey so far?
Torminalis - MemberWe used to call people Henders. Hender was written on the side of the special bus.
Aye, we used to use the names of our local special school and mental hospital as playground insults. The latter being accompanied by a 'struggling in straight-jacket' movement/gesture. We were 8, mind....
My fav is muppet.
Sadly used far too often as a kid were 'gay' and the many terms related to disabilities above.
"Dick Weed" was a popular choice
"Gaylord" which was very popular back in the eighties, i still use it a lot in completely irrelevant ways but i like it 😆
A couple of supposed friends of mine took to calling me 'the Moog' . . . I hated it!
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However I did actually enjoy my actual nickname of Orville.
We had:
jip - short for gyppo or gypsy
phleg - same as a spod
Joey - Joey Deacon lived down the road from my school. His mate Ernie came to our prize giving day after Joey died. 🙁
I remember chinny reckon - also had a variation chinny rub.
And Horace - named after a Joey Deacon style TV character.
Moron was common at primary school - i think it was big in Grange Hill at the time.
My favourite's at the moment: F*ck Stick
Courtesy of Rude Kid from Viz, I suspect.
Dill - truncation of sex toy?
Contraction of Dillan / Dylan - the dopey rabbit off The Magic Roundabout? (it's where I got it from, at any rate)
same as a spod
That's the second time someone's mentioned 'spod'. It's something that's endemic on [url= http://www.mono.org ]Mono[/url] and almost unheard of (by me at least) outside it. I'd be curious to hear where you've got it from and what you think it means?
That's the second time someone's mentioned 'spod'. It's something that's endemic on Mono and almost unheard of (by me at least) outside it. I'd be curious to hear where you've got it from and what you think it means?
I've no idea where it comes from or but I can tell that in my school in the early/mid 80s we used it to describe someone who was bookish, swotty, etc like a nerd or geek I suppose. I don't know or care whether this is its 'correct' meaning.
I don't think any of these words have a "correct" meaning, TBH.
Apologies Cougar, my reply might have sounded a bit defensive - i think i misread the tone of your question a bit.
This brings the memories back...
"yer spawny eyed wazzock!"
that dosn't seem to be heard very much anymore.
i am a little hazy over what was on rotation when i was back at school but i can confirm that all of the below get used on a near daily basis
spaz (a personal fave)
rentboy
mong
bell end
ball bag
shit house
😀
Spavin : Which apparently is a growth on a horses fetlock but at my school was applied to thin kids as a term of abuse.
But my favourite when applied with vigour was then and still is: Snot Gobbling Pussball
i think i misread the tone of your question a bit.
Yeah. Reading back, I can see how. I didn't mean it like that.
Glad to see that mong, retard, and spaz are making a comeback amongst 12-17 yr olds 🙂
A lat i used to teach was nicknamed "tunt" his reason was because he was a t**t and a c**T