# What are the best insults you've heard/read?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-insults-youve-heard-read/126296>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 30, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-insults-youve-heard-read/126296 "2002-08-30T14:27:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-insults-youve-heard-read/126296/81 "2002-09-06T21:12:03Z")

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I’m not sure how I forgot about the line from Watership Down (truly a classic moment in literature), but I can at least point out that it’s Lapine, not Lupine. Lupine would be wolves, which would be considered very embleer by the rabbits (“embleer” literally means “smells like a fox”).

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-insults-youve-heard-read/126296/82 "2002-09-06T23:55:36Z")

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Ah, thank you, **Chronos**. It’s been awhile since I read it. I know bovine, ursine, and ovine…I thought I knew Lupine/Lapine, too.

(And a bit more of ivylass’s ignorance flakes away…)

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