Brits - Slang question: how do you say arrogant??

[beenben]

I talk to a lot of arrogant people in my job including judges, senior partners at law firms, ivy leage grads, large law firm law librarians, etc. But I talked to a british author that takes the cake. If he calls back I'd like to "accidentally" call him an arrogant ____.

[ilya]

mumf*cker?

[diebitter]

wankah
Belgian
kno-nuffink
fartleberry

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wanker is clearly the winner here, wankah (in case the real spelling is censored) I don't know how you can accidentally call someone a wanker though...

[diebitter]

I don't know how you can accidentally use the adjective 'arrogant' with any noun either.


Just call him it, and tell him you thought it was someone else you were talking to. Confuse the situation by saying 'inside?' straight after the insult.

[partygirluk]

Can't go wrong with wanker.

[Vavavoom]

Prick will work just as well IMO!

poof, he's an arrogant poof

[diebitter]

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Prick will work just as well IMO!

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funnily enough, I put this first, but changed it to Belgian.

I think the OP wants specifically britcursing, and Prick is a bit international for that.

[Vavavoom]

Hmm....I hear ya on the international thing...

How about :

Bell-End

[diebitter]

Poof
Bell-end

both good

Do you US guys know the term fudge-packer?

[Blarg]

If he's a sharp-tongued smartass, do a John Cleese and say, "Been reading some Oscar Wilde, have we?"

[diebitter]

Inspired by Blarg's Cleese suggestion, howabout this if he says something putting you or yours down:

"I see. Well, of course, this is just the sort of blinkered philistine ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement, you whining hypocritical toadies with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic secret handshakes. You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn't become a Freemason if you went down on your stinking knees and begged me. "


Tell us his subject matter, we could come up with something better based on that, I reckon.

[beenben]

Actually I should've said I want to know how to say "arrogant" in brit slang.

[diebitter]

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Actually I should've said I want to know how to say "arrogant" in brit slang.

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ahhh,

errr...

flash
cocky
snotty

that's about it. There's other phrases, but not easy to drop in accidentally, or are too generic to convey the specific meaning of arrogance:

prat used to be a noun used for someone both arrogant and stupid, but I think it's now become as a general insult (and not much used).

"Berk" is the same as prat (Berk is rhyming slang for 'Berkshire hunt'... you can work it out), as is [censored].


There's the expression "loves the sound of his own voice" and "He says what he likes, and likes what he bloody well says"

hmmm, I'm still pondering if there's more though...

maybe "smart-arse"?

[Yeti]

cocky bastard/cocky t-word

[diebitter]

You could try this:

You: "you remind me of a minge-eater."
Him: "What?"
You: "Sorry, just reminiscing. Used to know a woman who had the same personality and accent as you. She was from Calcutta, but raised in England, and talks just like you. Minge-eater she was called [ie Minjitta]. You just remind me of this particular minge-eater, that's all."

If he wears this, you could call him minge-eater from then on as a pet name?

ehhh, maybe lame, not sure.

EDIT: Alternatively, find out something about him and make double entendres that can be interpreted innocently, but make him sound gay/retarded/stupid if not interpreted innocently.

Eg, if he played rugby at school, you could say stuff like 'I bet you had great fun beating off all the other guys and scoring, huh?'

As long as you don't laugh or give away you're taking the piss, he could well be nonplussed by it and ignore it. You could have enourmous and ongoing fun with this approach. I'm sure OOT could come up with lots of suggestions if you can get some background about him and post it here.

(ps. If it's Richard Dawkins, you can STFU and live with it).

[westside_eh]

"soft-cock" is the best generic insult.

[Blarg]

I've always had a deep love in my heart for the term, "fartless bastard."

[Eurotrash]

it doesn't quite fit the definition you need, but I think ponce might be a good one to consider.

[diebitter]

actually nonce isn't bad. It means 'pedophile' or kiddy-fiddler specifically, and a worthless person generally. Also easy to say and skate over without being picked up clearly.

I think the phrase that you are looking for is 'cocky tw_at'

[britspin]

Well, if the OP is taling to an arrogant author, perhaps He wants something a little more allusive than a insult direct, perhaps something that references the authors britshness.

Perhaps something like:

"I see the sun hasn't set on your self importance.."

"Congratulations- I hear you've recently been voted the 157th most important author in London"

"Mr X, tell me, when was it again you were on the NY Times beststeeler list?" (assuming he hasn't been)

"You know I always was told that we make everything bigger in america, like cars, steaks and skyscrapers. Of course, after talking to you I see how foolish that was. They clearly make the worlds biggest ego's over in england"

[CrazyEyez]

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Belgian

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Heh heh. Do you guys really use that as an insult? It made me laugh.

I've been watching The Office and they've called each other a "bender" a few times. Where does that rank on the insult scale? Does it just mean you're acting like you're drunk?

[IggyWH]

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Do you US guys know the term fudge-packer?

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This has to be one of the funniest lines I've read all day.

[britspin]

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I've been watching The Office and they've called each other a "bender" a few times. Where does that rank on the insult scale? Does it just mean you're acting like you're drunk?

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Bender = one who bends = gay, passive.

It made Futurama funnier.

[diebitter]

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Do you US guys know the term fudge-packer?

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This has to be one of the funniest lines I've read all day.

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Is that a yes or no?

[IggyWH]

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Do you US guys know the term fudge-packer?

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This has to be one of the funniest lines I've read all day.

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Is that a yes or no?

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It's a HUGE yes, which made it even funnier when I read it in my head with a British accent.

[CrazyEyez]

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Do you US guys know the term fudge-packer?

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This has to be one of the funniest lines I've read all day.

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Is that a yes or no?

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Yes.

[diebitter]

Ok, are any of these unfamiliar (they all mean the same thing)

Ginger (slang: ginger beer=queer)
brown hatter
turd burglar
batting for the other side
iron (rhyming slang - iron hoof)
takes it up the Gary
poofta
Woolly woofta (==poofta)

[IggyWH]

brown hatter
iron (rhyming slang - iron hoof)

Those 2 I haven't heard before but others might know them. We also don't bother beating around the bush and saying "Gary".

EDIT - I've never heard anyone say brown hatter but if I did, I'd understand what they meant. I wouldn't get iron though.

[gulebjorn]

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Belgian


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WTF?

[diebitter]

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Belgian


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WTF?

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Sorry, I meant Dutch.

[diebitter]

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brown hatter
iron (rhyming slang - iron hoof)

Those 2 I haven't heard before but others might know them. We also don't bother beating around the bush and saying "Gary".

EDIT - I've never heard anyone say brown hatter but if I did, I'd understand what they meant. I wouldn't get iron though.

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I added Ginger later, and this one is definitely the main one used in my part of London. Heard that one?

[CrazyEyez]

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brown hatter
iron (rhyming slang - iron hoof)

Those 2 I haven't heard before but others might know them. We also don't bother beating around the bush and saying "Gary".

EDIT - I've never heard anyone say brown hatter but if I did, I'd understand what they meant. I wouldn't get iron though.

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I added Ginger later, and this one is definitely the main one used in my part of London. Heard that one?

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No, but keep these coming.
Use Ginger in a sentence, please.
Also - taking it up the Gary - I assume there's a famous "Gary" who has a last name that rhymes with ass or something?

[diebitter]

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brown hatter
iron (rhyming slang - iron hoof)

Those 2 I haven't heard before but others might know them. We also don't bother beating around the bush and saying "Gary".

EDIT - I've never heard anyone say brown hatter but if I did, I'd understand what they meant. I wouldn't get iron though.

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I added Ginger later, and this one is definitely the main one used in my part of London. Heard that one?

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No, but keep these coming.
Use Ginger in a sentence, please.
Also - taking it up the Gary - I assume there's a famous "Gary" who has a last name that rhymes with ass or something?

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Gary Glitter

use of Ginger - exactly like queer, eg noun and adjective

He's a bit ginger, what a ginger!


Some more, then I'm dry:

Rear Gunner
Shirt Lifter
Batty boy
Arse Bandit
lover of the Bourneville Boulevard (Bourneville is a type of dark chocolate)
sht stabber
bum chums (for 2 gay men together)
left footer (also used for catholics)
bent as a nine-bob note
bent as a butcher's hook
fudge nudger
Also the adjective 'screaming' often goes in front of bender
'You screaming bender!'

[CrazyEyez]

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bent as a nine-bob note

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Brilliant.

[diebitter]

oh, just remembered one more

Pillow biter

[Yeti]

diebitter,

FWIW, some of these I have never heard of, most I would never utter.

[diebitter]

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diebitter,

FWIW, some of these I have never heard of, most I would never utter.

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Really? Many of them are (or at least used to be) pretty common in London. some are a bit obscure, I'll grant, but I've heard them all used one time or another.

You'd be able to use 'bent as a nine-bob note'/Ginger/iron in any south London drinker and no-one would bat an eyelid, for example.

EDIT: some of them are quite archaic now, for example 'left-footer' - haven't heard that one since I was a kid, but 'bent as a nine-bob note' is still going strong, even though there haven't been 10-bob notes in about 40 years!

[Yeti]

I am familiar with and sometimes use the nine bob note line.

I use ginger in a derogatory way but with no gay connotations.

iron - no idea.

FWIW, one of my fav lines, 'i'd rather show my arse in burton's window'.

[woodguy]

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I see. Well, of course, this is just the sort of blinkered philistine ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement, you whining hypocritical toadies with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic secret handshakes. You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn't become a Freemason if you went down on your stinking knees and begged me. "

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But it is a lovely abattoir.

Regards,
Woodguy

[Blarg]

Fudge nudger is great.

I still don't get how "iron" came to mean gay. Iron hook? Huh?

[diebitter]

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Fudge nudger is great.

I still don't get how "iron" came to mean gay. Iron hook? Huh?

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Fudge nudger isn't that common, and it certainly would draw attention cos it's just rarely used.

iron = iron hoof (here hoof isn't said like horse's hoof, but to rhyme with poof or woof). I have no idea what an iron hoof is, but I think it's something to do with railway tracks. I'm pretty sure the term comes from Victorian or possibly very early 20th century times though (my great grandpa used to use it, and he was a soldier in the boer war and first world war, so it's a pretty old expression).

[Blarg]

Do you pronounce the first vowel sound in poof and poofter the same? For some reason I pronounce the first one like I would "cool" and the second like I would "wood."

[diebitter]

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Do you pronounce the first vowel sound in poof and poofter the same? For some reason I pronounce the first one like I would "cool" and the second like I would "wood."

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Both like wood.

Some posh people pronounce poof like 'move' for some reason.

[CORed]

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bent as a nine-bob note

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Similar to the American "Queer as a three dollar bill".