# What's a sorta rude word for a Swiss guy?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 5, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-sorta-rude-word-for-a-swiss-guy/258379 "2004-08-05T00:17:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-sorta-rude-word-for-a-swiss-guy/258379/61 "2010-12-18T18:31:09Z")

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> [@WotNot](#):
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> According to Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the nickname of a Swiss is… [COLIN TAMPON?](http://www.bartleby.com/81/3852.html)

That’s ancient. Never heard it.

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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-sorta-rude-word-for-a-swiss-guy/258379/62 "2010-12-18T18:33:09Z")

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> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#):
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> Ah, this thread is a fest.
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> Guess the ebil fayscist Swiss are fair game, uh ? I wonder how such a thread would turn out if it were about “a rude word for an Algerian/Moroccan/Tanzanian”.

For Moroccan may I suggest “Fez dispenser”?

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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-sorta-rude-word-for-a-swiss-guy/258379/63 "2010-12-18T18:33:39Z")

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Just Yodeler. Or in this case “Yodeling Mick injun.” Although why you would have snuck that compliment in at the middle baffles me. . . 😉

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**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-sorta-rude-word-for-a-swiss-guy/258379/64 "2010-12-19T01:21:25Z")

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> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#):
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> Ah, this thread is a fest.
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> Guess the ebil fayscist Swiss are fair game, uh ? I wonder how such a thread would turn out if it were about “a rude word for an Algerian/Moroccan/Tanzanian”.

Ooooh … he’s an _angry_ gnome …

😉

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**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-sorta-rude-word-for-a-swiss-guy/258379/65 "2010-12-19T03:21:36Z")

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“Cheesehole” just sounds like a Wisconsinite to me.

I’ve certainly heard the Swiss referred to as “The Friendly Germans”.

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**Author:** ![Rex\_Goliath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-sorta-rude-word-for-a-swiss-guy/258379/66 "2010-12-19T05:29:04Z")

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Every now and then, during a ordinary conversation, throw your hands up defensively and say “whoah whoah whoah there, don’t get all neutral on me.”

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