Dismissive remarks
These usages are arranged alphabetically here, all having something to do with the theme of "dismissive remarks." For fuller information about each usage, see the main list. There are twenty-six files there. Just click on to the appropriate letter. It is not there there are no remarkable instances of conventional praising in this speech community. There are plenty of phrases such as "You're the bomb!" or "You're it!" meaning that a person is superb or the cat's meow. Another very positive appraisal: "He'd get round widout crutches, dat feller." It is just that there seem to be so many more and such a variety of critical or antagonistic remarks, that this collector feels overwhelmed by the latter.
144 entries
a bit of a divvystupid
stupid
a right wetotally uninitiated
totally uninitiated
Full A–Z entry →ardclockhard-faced
hard-faced
ardfaced gitimpudent
impudent
artificial silklawyer in title only
lawyer in title only
Full A–Z entry →backbencherlittle to say
little to say
barm potdaft
daft
Full A–Z entry →barmisoda daft loser
a daft loser
beady-eyed bastardoverly inquisitive
overly inquisitive
Full A–Z entry →bed wetterearly riser
early riser
berka dope
a dope
Full A–Z entry →big girl's blousepretentious but useless
pretentious but useless
big blowbraggart
braggart
Full A–Z entry →binheadstupid
stupid
Full A–Z entry →blodgerhanger-on
hanger-on
bolshiepushy, confrontational
pushy, confrontational
Bossie Britchesofficious matron
officious matron
Full A–Z entry →buck, astreet hood
street hood
Busy Lizziebusybody
busybody
Full A–Z entry →cack-handed camelinept
inept
Full A–Z entry →clat tale titinformer
informer
Full A–Z entry →clergy, theafter hours drunks
after hours drunks
Full A–Z entry →clever clogsa know-it-all
a know-it-all
Full A–Z entry →codpretender
pretender
Full A–Z entry →come-oversvisitors to the Isle of Man
visitors to the Isle of Man
Full A–Z entry →corksuckeran American
an American
cow-(h)eadsimpleton
simpleton
cow bagcontemptuous reference to a woman
contemptuous reference to a woman
Full A–Z entry →cowboysshoddy workmen
shoddy workmen
cratesimmigrants
immigrants
Full A–Z entry →creepin' Jesusthe perpetual martyr
the perpetual martyr
Full A–Z entry →d.o.a.a hopeless idiot
a hopeless idiot
Full A–Z entry →dog's body, alowest of the menials
lowest of the menials
Full A–Z entry →dozy buggerincompetent
incompetent
Full A–Z entry →dragon, aa dificult woman
a dificult woman
Full A–Z entry →drongoworthless person
worthless person
Full A–Z entry →dry sodsubtle sense of humor
subtle sense of humor
Full A–Z entry →finny-addysmoked haddock
smoked haddock
flytricky
tricky
Frankensteinmother-in-law
mother-in-law
Full A–Z entry →ginka bad actor, low life
a bad actor, low life
gob shakes, thecompulsive talker
compulsive talker
goma fool
a fool
Full A–Z entry →Good Ship Neverbudgelandlubbers pretending to be sailors
landlubbers pretending to be sailors
gormlessstupid
stupid
Full A–Z entry →granny gorecrotchety
crotchety
Full A–Z entry →jinka Jonah
a Jonah
Full A–Z entry →jump-upan ambitious climber
an ambitious climber
Full A–Z entry →long string o'miserywhiner
whiner
long string o' summat-er-otherunlikable
unlikable
Full A–Z entry →Luke Har, acondescending upper class person
condescending upper class person
Marks and Spencera perpetual duo, but never quite to the altar
a perpetual duo, but never quite to the altar
Full A–Z entry →meltworthless
worthless
Full A–Z entry →minesweeperstealer of drinks and food in the pub
stealer of drinks and food in the pub
Full A–Z entry →Mosesgarrulous
garrulous
Full A–Z entry →nomarknonentity
nonentity
Full A–Z entry →old toshnonsense
nonsense
Full A–Z entry →omadhaunfool
fool
Full A–Z entry →one of Lewis'inert
inert
pennuth o' God (h)elp ustrivial
trivial
Full A–Z entry →queen of the wash housea gossip
a gossip
quiltunmanly
unmanly
Full A–Z entry →red-blooded, all-American fullbackbraggart
braggart
Rockefellertight-fisted
tight-fisted
Rose of Traleeslovenly
slovenly
Full A–Z entry →sconeheadfoolish
foolish
scutlow life
low life
sherperunscrupulous
unscrupulous
shit stirrertrouble-maker
trouble-maker
skinny-arsed bastardcheap
cheap
slate missing, to have ato be off mentally
to be off mentally
snide, aa stickler
a stickler
snideycheap
cheap
softstupid
stupid
soppyworthless
worthless
stick mandapper
dapper
swotoverly-earnest
overly-earnest
tartar, aa task master
a task master
Full A–Z entry →tatafoolish
foolish
Full A–Z entry →ten pence to the shillunmentally deficient
mentally deficient
ther likes of `er
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thickstupid
stupid
Full A–Z entry →toeragcontemptible
contemptible
Full A–Z entry →tomnoddieslocal fools
local fools
tuppence ha'pennyinferior
inferior
Full A–Z entry →wallyimbecile
imbecile
Full A–Z entry →wet sodbore
bore
Full A–Z entry →wise Herbert, aan untrustworthy person
an untrustworthy person
Full A–Z entry →SAYINGS (DISMISSIVE REMARKS)
`Es so low `e could walk under a snake wirr a top `at on.
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Them two cuddn fill a bath with water, even if thee knew where the tap was.
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I was born and raised a Catholic, burr I cuddent give a rats left knacker(testicle) about em.
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I wouldn't pick him up with two shitty sticks.
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I've seen more go inna traffic light.
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The state of dat and der price of fish! :what I have to put up with!
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talk the leg off a brass donkey she will
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I don't know a blind word he says
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He's got a head big as Birkenhead
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She's got a mouth like a parish oven
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couldn't climb a ten foot ladder
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don't know Thursday from Breakfast time
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can't tell 'is tits in a black sack
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He'd forget his arse if it wasn't riveted on
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He knows a few words...he's been to collitch
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got a gob like a bee's bum ( very sharp tongued)
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got more kid than a pregnant goat (always clowning about something)
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got more bum than brains
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couldn't kick a snadger(sparrow) up its arse
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so sharp he can cut putty
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so thick he can't leak
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thinks 'e's 'eap big but'e's just a big 'eap
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thinks wood don't grow on trees
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a bit of a divvy
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He's not a full shilling
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There's no oil in his lamp
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He doesn't have all his chairs at home
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She's got a personality like an open grave
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He's only got two brain cells and one of them is lonelyone career in nocturnal food services coming up!
one career in nocturnal food services coming up!
He can sing for toffeenot a great singing voice
not a great singing voice
It's enough to make a bitch cack on her pups! :what is this world coming to?
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Unlucky? He'd break his leg in the eye hospital.
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Of a poor dancerit's like a horse trampling in manure
it's like a horse trampling in manure
If it was raining soup, he's be standing with a fork in his handlosers are born!
losers are born!
Sounds like a pig in painit's difficult to be listening to a child's music practice
it's difficult to be listening to a child's music practice
The pong(obnoxious odor) was enough to knock a buzzard off a bin lorry(garbage truck).
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She's as thick as two short planksa walking blonde joke.
a walking blonde joke.
Damn, damn, double damn, 50 buggers and a blast!one more screw up to deal with!
one more screw up to deal with!
I would rather watch an egg boil. A yank might say, "this bores my arse blue."
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Didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or burst out in pimpleswords and everything else failed me.
words and everything else failed me.
She'd scare a monkey out of a banana treethe chick is ferocious.
the chick is ferocious.
He's a pig's wank in a dirty tissueyou can't get much lower than that.
you can't get much lower than that.
He's lost the plot, himclueless, not safe on the street
clueless, not safe on the street
They stick together like shit to a blanketinseparable and predictable.
inseparable and predictable.
It's all gin and orangesit's matter of indifference, it's all the same to me.
it's matter of indifference, it's all the same to me.
The rags on his backside are battering his brains out
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Right little ta-ta, that onechildish and insipid
childish and insipid
If (someone or something) is (someone or something), then I'm a Dutchman
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Gorra face like a farmer's arse on a frosty morning
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Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
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Me dad's going on about his same guy as if the sun shines out of his ass
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It's getting right up my bra.
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These prats really irk my shingles
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Looks like a drink of water dressed up
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This audience is a bunch of pit props. They wouldn't laugh if they saw the chair walking
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One tale's good till another's told
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