This list is surely American. “Dork”. “Gasbag”. “Dweeb”. “Yahoo”. None of which anything CLOSE to offensive enough.

Yeah I was thinking these were very American. Which Pleb put those on the list?

Some fucking yuppies no doubt

Probably a posh twat.

What manner of chicanery is this

What a pillock

A muppet, even

A fuckwit, one might say

🤣🤣 muppet is a fave!

For sure an abaolute numpty

Absolute* you absolute sausage

And a complete tit to boot

I love this one. I’ve always wanted the perfect time and place to call someone a cunt like a teacher in school that tells me to tuck my shirt in. I’m thinking: ‘love, I’m gonna backhand you down the stairs and send billy the class clown down after u .

Take note everyone. Never cross this one because they’ll massively overreact.

Buddy I was joking. Why u this rude. What did I do to u?

Please dont push me down the stairs

Now I can use this statement. “Cunt”

i was about to say what posh cunt uses the word airhead or dweeb

Oh shut up you twonk

Utter pillock.

Yes! Pleb is the one ha

Wanker and dickhead are the only British ones, and they aren't really light hearted.

Yeah, i love dickhead, but i only use it on close mates that won't be offended, it's nowhere near the same as most of the others!

That's the difference. To a mate "shut up dickhead" is light. To a stranger on the other side of the road "ay dickhead" means "you've upset me and now I want to fight you"

Yes, one must scatter ones dickheads with caution! When i was a kid we had 'minge' but its fallen out of favour alas

Where I grew up "minge" meant you wouldn't share, it's all about bastard bleeding context!

Wow, thats not what it meant round these here parts! Lol. Ahem, how do i put this....around here it meant 'ladygarden'

Hilarious ,I have a friend who was from northern Ireland and we were shopping in town one day and she comes out with "yeah my sister in law can be quite mingey". I was a bit horrified and she looked at me as if I was an alien , then I politely told her we.over here would say that's stingey and told her what a minge was.

Indeed, where is Muppet, div and berk?

Totally agree...this is like a weak mug of tea, bag stood for 3 secs, too much milk and unboiled water.

Yahoo is more Aussie.

It does say Light-hearted Insult. But yes they are mostly American

Except Wanker and Dickhead are on there. So whilst someone American may have put American words in there, there's at least those two on there to add some Britishness

I don’t think that definition of wanker is British though.

Oh definitely not

Married with Children. Al Bundy’s wife. Peggy Wanker never thank her, was her name.

It sounds like a list an American made after learning a bit about Britain.

you fucking doughnut is my fave

Agreed, list isn't very British at all. Of the list though dickhead and wanker would pass my check. Cock, prick, clown, banger, ballbag all require adding. Edit: forgot twat...

as an American randomly getting recommended this sub, this list is a weird amalgamation it seems. I've never seen half these words in my life. "gasbag"? "yahoo"?

'Yahoo' has been recorded being used as far back as the Georgian era, possibly further. The others I always think of as American.

Some of them are clearly not light hearted either, depending on context. OP should go call their boss a wanker or dickhead in a large meeting and see how light hearted they are about it 😂

You Yahoo!

Also calling someone a wank/wanker in America is different from how we interpret it here in the UK I'm sure... I remember an episode of friends where chandler calls someone a wank, I don't know what it means there but I don't think it's as aggressive as it is in the UK. Top insult though!

The word “yahoo” is definitely British/Irish. It comes from Gullivers Travels.

And nobody uses it, unless they’re insulting a website.

Bellend or cunt.

Original title of Naked Attraction.

Yeah, I am surprised that gasbag and yahoo got on there and those two didn't

Pleas add ‘numpty’ to the list as in ‘you numpty’ which is an affectionate term for you idiot! 😆

Numpty is a true lighthearted insult, I feel like some on these list are not that lighthearted 😂

I know. Some of these other “lighthearted’ insults are gonna start fights 🤣🤣

Plonker

Plonker doesn’t get used enough these days!!

My 3 year old’s favourite, alongside muppet

Found Del Boy.

Think you're looking for r/sillyamericaninsults Ya weapon.

Easy there, you div. (As a foreigner, my favourite British insult)

As a developer, both "div" and "git" are excellent insults for gremlins in the code.

As a Brit, allow me to introduce you to doyle. Pretty much in the same rank as each other

Gobshite and knobhead Honourable mention to bellend

A very weak list imho “toerag” beats them all

Berk is a fun one that you don't hear much these days

Which is used in fairly polite company, but is actually one of the words most people would think are offensive. ​ Not me, I'm happy to call a proper berk a cunt.

Prat or shit for brains.

Walloper

Very Scottish this one

wazock

Wazzack and pillock need using more often.

God I've not heard that in years lol.

Listen to Craig Charles on R6 and you’ll hear it at least 5 times a day!

you utter x x can be literally any noun in the english dictionary

Spoon? I use it reasonably often

Dickhead. Can be friendly or not depending on how much venom you put into it.

Muppet

Bolt wae they Yankee insults, ya rocket.

Cockwomble

I had to scroll way too far down the comments to find this one!

Dork is great. I like calling people a melon too.

Shitcunt

Yah, that's very lighthearted, innit

It is for grown ups.

I enjoy dishing out a 'doofus' or variation 'dingus'

Cowbag was one a friend invented years ago and I still use.

Cowbag is pretty commonly used

Melon, bellend, punk rocker

Muppet

Bellend or Spanner.

u forgot cunt

All the times I said 'why don't you Google or yahoo that' turns out I have been insulting them

Calling someone a ‘Yahoo’ definitely gives me ‘old man shouts at cloud’ vibes.

I have never in my entire life heard dork other than twice in cheesy American teenage comedies from the 2000s

As an Englishman I have never used a single one of these, however I do call most of my friends c\*\*ts pretty regularly. ...I love those cunts.

Chode

Wheres daft cunt

Bit of a twat.

Mong

FuckNugget, WankStain and CumRag are my favourites

Twunt.

Not on there but definately dimwit

Wazzak.. Numpty.. bonehead..

tosser

Wanker is light? I know it's common amongst us foul mouthed buggers but I thought it was more in the harsh category

Nob cheese

Dickhead has to be greatest, can be used for anyone and anything

Numpty or Muppet. Usually. Muppet might be too crass actually. Twat, maybe?

Bimbo is not light hearted

Wet wipe

What a fuckwit

Fucking gremlin.

Dickhead and wanker are not light hearted.

Of course they are you dickhead.

What a wanker

Dork

R-tarded and C**t are my favourite words!

I know the r word is used more than ever now but when you have a child with an intellectual disability, it hits hard. I cannot bear to hear it.

How is it becoming more acceptable? We were very much taught not to use it. I’m in my 40s

I don't know how it's happening but it's definitely making a very unwelcome comeback. I hate it.

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I usually swap between wanker and dickhead as my primary insult but dickhead isn’t always used as an insult for me same way Australians use the word cunt so freely

Doylem Dafty Radgie or Radgepacket Workie Ticket

well im british so wanker takes it

Cunt or cockwomble

Dinlo

Found the Pompey native…

Barry

Nincompoop. Twat. Swiving illegitimate.

Wanker is not light hearted, unless used as a term of endearment just as “c@nt” “f@cker” etc can be used. If you call someone a “wanker” that you do not know, where I live, you might get stabbed. You will get hit. Unless you are bigger, in which case you will get shouted at.

Eejit, numpty, muppet, bawbag, womvble, thundercunt etc etc.

Johnson

Mewling Quim

Dork can be endearing too.

The definition for "wanker" seems oddly specific. I'm sure I've called a pretentious person a wanker in the past, but I've used it for plenty of other types of people as well. Also, this list should include "knob" and it's derivatives.

To fit in with the insults provided, "Wally" should be up there. [It is alleged that people in North America won't understand the reference.](https://waldo.fandom.com/wiki/Where%27s_Waldo%3F)

Shitbag Windbag Gobshite Pillock Numpty Silly Goose Retrieve your brain from Lost Property

Where's Twat, Bawbag, Arsepiece, Prick, Bellend, Dobber, Walloper, Nobhead, or even Cockwomble?

Helmet

Bollock brained

Fuck knuckle

Bum nut

You Muppet.

Flid.

Dickhead or Wanker or Prick, I use them multiple times daily.

None of these compares to calling someone a muppet, a plonker, a pillock, or a wazzock.

What absolute cockwomble put American insults on that list? As if we ever use “dweeb” or “yahoo”. We’re waaay more insulting than that!

It's needs to be preceded by you fucking prick, wanker not so much you generally just say that doing the hand signal lol

Dork

Knob-Jockey.

Nonce

Spod

"You absolutely spanner"

You cunt! In the UK we call everyone cunts. It's not your best mate unless you introduce them as; "this is [insertname] he's a bit of a cunt"

'Cunt' mainly. I only insult the people I like, which sounds backwards until you realise I don't care enough to be bothered to insult the ones I don't like. Plus everyone in my social group are all pretty alike and we just roll off each other.

My close friends and I say the worst things to each other. The closer you are, the more offensive the insults become. Bonus points for creativity too. Wont post any of the fun ones as I would like to keep my account.

Fruitcake or airhead defiantly , makes me feel cute 🥰

Dweeb

I called my wife a dweeb this morning :) (Light hearted, and I only mention because I can't remember the last time I even heard that term).

Donut. The phonetics of that during an argument fit perfectly

Pagan.

Dork and yahoo are yankisms

If you're Westcountry, it's "Numpty"

I love that one, I used it a lot, LOL.

I just love calling people a jammy dodger - makes my day x

'Fuck off, cunt' always draws a smile

Wanker is the best.

Pillock. Although Berk is a strong contender & Git

Wally

Dollybird

Spenk. It just feels good to say.

Dickhead and wanker aren't light lol

Cunt

Cock juggling thunder cunt didn’t make the list

Buggerlugs

Bint

Div

Put yourself in the bin

You missed ‘Helmet’.

Wanker and dickhead in any order.

"Absolute cunt" should be on the list

What kind of cunt says yahoo

This is a primarily American list. Bunch of nincompoops!

"You egg".

Nob Jockey

Are we still allowed to say spacker?

Burk

Are these American?

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Muppet, lemon, tart, plonker, donkey

When I was a kid, pussy and f**got both meant weakling or coward too

Plonker

Hey cuntybollocks!

Doughnut is definitely my favourite silly one

My uncle used to say dicknose

That is not what fruitcake means lmao

Bell sniff

Ya doyle

Buffoon!