# Non-vulgar interjections and insults that are worse than swearing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005 "2005-02-02T17:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/1 "2005-02-02T17:06:03Z")
My darling husband, for some reason, says, “mother puss-bucket” as a random interjection, usually in place of motherfucker. I absolutely can’t stand the image this puts in my mind—not the mother part, the puss-bucket part—and I tell him he should just say motherfucker instead, which is a fairly unevocative vulgarity, instead of . . . Oh, ick—I’m not typing it again. I also find “dumb as a bag of hair” particularly gross and disturbing. I’m not quite sure why. Honestly, I’d rather someone call me a c\*nt than a bag of hair, and I really hate the c-word. Is there anything they could say on broadcast TV during primetime that bugs you more than the usual obscene words? ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/2 "2005-02-02T17:21:47Z")
Mother Puss-bucket, for reference, originates as far as I can tell with Ghostbusters, from the lips of Peter Venkman. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/3 "2005-02-02T17:40:06Z")
Ah, so _that’s_ where he got it! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/4 "2005-02-02T23:55:52Z")
One that I just made up today, to describe a guy I work with: “You big, nasty, candy-crunching, soda-slurping, talking-to-yourself goofball!” Of course, I only _think_ it, but it’s satisfying nonetheless… ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/5 "2005-02-03T00:08:02Z")
A bucket full of cats? ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/6 "2005-02-03T00:56:01Z")
Hmm. I went to look it up in the dictionary to get a smartass fancy definition, and discovered that pus only has one _s_. D’oh. One more for the “List of Words I’ll Never Spell Wrong Again.” ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/7 "2005-02-03T01:32:12Z")
paraphrased from Babylon 5 You have a well-earned and charming humility. From somewhere else You have delusions of adequacy. My own Your not the brightest bulb in the greenhouse. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/8 "2005-02-03T01:46:52Z")
Personally, I think it is much more insulting to call a woman a cow than to call her a bitch, but that might just be me. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/9 "2005-02-03T09:05:08Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Personally, I think it is much more insulting to call a woman a cow than to call her a bitch, but that might just be me. Not just you. Probably because bitch often gets used for women who’re perceived as being aggressive/pushy/etc when they’re being assertive, plus a bunch of other things. But there’s no way of slicing it for cows – they just stand there and moo at you. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/10 "2005-02-03T10:20:24Z")
‘Run along, the grown-ups are talking.’ ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/11 "2005-02-03T15:15:40Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > My darling husband, for some reason, says, “mother puss-bucket” as a random interjection, usually in place of motherfucker. I think we might have the same husband. And I feel the same way. Ick! Just swear, goshdarnit! ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/12 "2005-02-03T15:32:58Z")
“Scum-sucking guttersnipe!” There’s a more obscene version of this, but since I don’t know how to do the whole Spolier-box thing, and I’m at work, I’m loathe to post it… It rolls trippingly off the tongue, tho’. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/13 "2005-02-03T15:36:50Z")
“Ok, you’re speakering privallages have officially been revoked.” Then upon that person’s next attempt at saying anything: “What did I say about the talking? Yeah, no more of it.” And then of course there’s always: “Every time your mouth opens, I die a little inside.” and: “shut you’re mouth and know you’re role.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/14 "2005-02-03T15:42:03Z")
Ok, **Daithi Lacha** , I really want to hear the thing. What you do to quote is on the advanced reply page hit the little “talky blurb” on the toolbar, then enter the dirty stuff in the pop up. Or do like this, only replace the “\<” bits with “[” bits. \this is the hidden bit\ ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/15 "2005-02-03T15:59:55Z")
Actually the code is [spoiler]hidden text[/ spoiler](without the spaces), not “quote”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/16 "2005-02-03T16:36:51Z")
OOOOH! :smack: My bad! It’s early. kinda. Is that an excuse? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/17 "2005-02-03T17:29:24Z")
And another classic: “Oh, I’m sorry, were you talking? Because all I heard was someone scraping their fingers against a chalk board.” ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/18 "2005-02-03T17:40:01Z")
I always gross my husband out with this one, but there’s no way they’d say it on primetime: Eat my menstrual chunks. Yay! My first spoiler! Thank you, **Homebrew**. Hmmm, I’m trying to think of a less gross one. Perhaps crusty butt-nugget? Then again, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/19 "2005-02-03T17:50:47Z")
Dimwad Lemme check the heel of your boot. (for piss-pouring instructions) ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005/20 "2005-02-03T18:56:33Z")
OK - check it out: cum-guzzling gutter-slut **Little Bird** & **Homebrew** , thanks for my cool new superpowers! 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-vulgar-interjections-and-insults-that-are-worse-than-swearing/288005.md?page=2)