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Bellend
When it comes to thinking up new insults, the genitals are always a good place to start. This is a universal constant of swearing. Bellend comes from a fine line of penis-related insults which are probably as old as language itself. You can probably work out what it refers to, but what you may not realize is that bellend is actually quite an affectionate term. It?ll get you into a fight if you say it nastily enough, but it generally tends to be used in either affection or exasperation, depending on the situation. Bellend is on a par with the American asshole in terms of being not safe for visiting dignitaries but perfectly fine salty talk among friends.
Twat
Sometimes the words are the same on either side of the Atlantic but their meaning and use is different. Where there are hideously offensive insults derived from the female genitalia, twat is at the milder end of the scale, and as far as the British are concerned, the link between the thing the word is named after and the insult it carries is becoming fuzzier every day. And it?s not an insult that is reserved for girls either. If I?d been to a party, say, and drunk most of the punch, then got a bit fighty, then a bit shouty, then a bit sicky, I would full expect to wake up the following afternoon to a barrage of texts calling me a twat. And in my fulsome apology to the host, I?d be calling myself it too.
Munter
However, if you?re a munter, you?re definitely ugly. Beckham may be face down in the bin while you elegantly sip your soup, pinky aloft, but if you?re not as attractive as he is (and frankly very few of us are) you?re the munter in this scenario. The good news is he?s still the minger. And as a bonus word, what he?s doing is minging.
Scrubber
And here?s where things get unpleasant for the girls. Scrubber is an old term for a prostitute, and as you may already know, when seeking to insult a woman, the easiest thing to do is suggest she is freely available for sex, if the money is right. It really seems to get on their nerves. There?s been a certain amount of post-feminist clawback on terms like this (see also: slapper), and you?ll now hear women throwing it about with carefree abandon. But as with all reclaimed insults, it?s all about who says it to whom, and what their intentions are.
Slag
Again, to be thrown at the woman who stole your man, but not at the man who went off with that woman. Although, to be fair, he?s clearly almost every other word on this list, even the slightly affectionate ones. Slag does get used in other contexts nowadays, mind. As in the Smiths song ?Paint A Vulgar Picture? where the deliberately non-gender-specific Morrissey describes a record company goldrush after the death of a star: ?the sycophantic slags all say, ?I knew him first and I knew him well??
