FabSwingers.com forum: I'm shocked that the insult NINNY is losing it's hold on our Society . . .

By *atEvolution OP Couple
33 weeks ago

'Merry Christmas'

Run out now and call your young ones before these halcyon days are lost forever:

The British insults unknown by younger people, according to the poll are:

1. Lummox (62%)

2. Bampot (60%)

3. Blighter (54%)

4. Ninny (51%)

5. Cad (47%)

6. Drip (42%)

7. Tosspot (36%)

8. Toe rag (34%)

9. Pillock (33%

10. Plonker (25%)

11. Nitwit (27%)

12. Prat (25%)

13. Scallywag (26%)

14. Git (26%)

15. Numpty (22%)

Save our language. Come on Rishi !!!

https://news.sky.com/story/pillock-plonker-and-tosspot-among-british-insults-at-risk-of-dying-out-13132070

This has been a (TIC) Production.

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By *otMe66Man
33 weeks ago

Terra Firma

This is very pleasing to know, the tosspots wont get offended when I call them toe rags

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By *irkby coupleCouple
33 weeks ago

Kirkby

I wouldn’t consider any of them an insult, more friendly banter.

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By *ostindreamsMan
33 weeks ago

London

Toe rag - This is the first time I am hearing this

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By *uri00620Woman
33 weeks ago

Croydon

Well I've never heard of number 2 and I'm considerably older!

I would add ninconpoop. I reckon that's pretty low on young people's literacy radar.

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By *oxychick35Couple
33 weeks ago

thornaby

"Run out now and call your young ones before these halcyon days are lost forever:

The British insults unknown by younger people, according to the poll are:

1. Lummox (62%)

2. Bampot (60%)

3. Blighter (54%)

4. Ninny (51%)

5. Cad (47%)

6. Drip (42%)

7. Tosspot (36%)

8. Toe rag (34%)

9. Pillock (33%

10. Plonker (25%)

11. Nitwit (27%)

12. Prat (25%)

13. Scallywag (26%)

14. Git (26%)

15. Numpty (22%)

Save our language. Come on Rishi !!!

https://news.sky.com/story/pillock-plonker-and-tosspot-among-british-insults-at-risk-of-dying-out-13132070

This has been a (TIC) Production.

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in my day they wherent really an insult they didn’t start with a swear word lol

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By *astandFeistyCouple
33 weeks ago

Bournemouth

"Well I've never heard of number 2 and I'm considerably older!

I would add ninconpoop. I reckon that's pretty low on young people's literacy radar. "

Bampot was used regularly in Scotland when I was younger, no idea anymore.

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By *0shadesOfFilthMan
33 weeks ago

nearby

All very tame and inoffensive

No wonder the wokes banned Roy chubby brown from Sheffield.

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By *oxychick35Couple
33 weeks ago

thornaby

"All very tame and inoffensive

No wonder the wokes banned Roy chubby brown from Sheffield. "
omg Sheffield ya mean the boro lol

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By *till gameMan
33 weeks ago

two doors down

"Well I've never heard of number 2 and I'm considerably older!

I would add ninconpoop. I reckon that's pretty low on young people's literacy radar.

Bampot was used regularly in Scotland when I was younger, no idea anymore. "

Agreed or the shortened bam

I moved away 1999 though

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By *astandFeistyCouple
33 weeks ago

Bournemouth

"Well I've never heard of number 2 and I'm considerably older!

I would add ninconpoop. I reckon that's pretty low on young people's literacy radar.

Bampot was used regularly in Scotland when I was younger, no idea anymore.

Agreed or the shortened bam

I moved away 1999 though "

I moved away in '97.

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By *tuhelCouple
33 weeks ago

Livingston

"Toe rag - This is the first time I am hearing this

It relates to people who wrapped cloth round their feet because they could not afford shoes. People like tramps.

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By *irldnCouple
33 weeks ago

Brighton

A lot of that list is basically the script of Only Fools and Horses

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By *ostindreamsMan
33 weeks ago

London

"Toe rag - This is the first time I am hearing this

It relates to people who wrapped cloth round their feet because they could not afford shoes. People like tramps. "

Thanks for the clarification

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By (user no longer on site)
33 weeks ago

"All very tame and inoffensive

No wonder the wokes banned Roy chubby brown from Sheffield. "

I was wondering how long it would take for some Ninny to bring up the W word...

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By *uri00620Woman
33 weeks ago

Croydon

"A lot of that list is basically the script of Only Fools and Horses

Might be where this originated. On social media there was an article knocking about referring to the show and the sad demise of "plonker" among other terms.

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By *itonthesideWoman
33 weeks ago

Glasgow

"Toe rag - This is the first time I am hearing this

This was definitely something i heard from the grannies when i was young

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By *itonthesideWoman
33 weeks ago

Glasgow

"Toe rag - This is the first time I am hearing this

It relates to people who wrapped cloth round their feet because they could not afford shoes. People like tramps. "

I assume thats its origination, but its use that i know of was more a trouble maker. Kids playing up being naughty would be called toe rags

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By *ornucopiaMan
32 weeks ago

Bexley

Interested to see the inclusion of the term 'toe rag'.

Surely the correct spelling should be 'tow rag', 'tow' being a grade of cotton and nothing to do with feet.

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By *otMe66Man
32 weeks ago

Terra Firma

"Interested to see the inclusion of the term 'toe rag'.

Surely the correct spelling should be 'tow rag', 'tow' being a grade of cotton and nothing to do with feet."

You sent me down a google rabbit hole with your reply, the things I never knew

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By *atEvolution OP Couple
32 weeks ago

'Merry Christmas'

"Interested to see the inclusion of the term 'toe rag'.

Surely the correct spelling should be 'tow rag', 'tow' being a grade of cotton and nothing to do with feet."

All the searches I have done have the spelling as:

**toerag** ie:

toerag

/ 't???ræg /

noun

slang.

a contemptible or despicable person

toerag in British English

Collins Dictionary.

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toerag

noun [ C ]

UK informal

/'to?.ræg/ uk

/'t??.ræg/

Add to word list

an extremely unpleasant person

Cambridge Dictionary

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By *atEvolution OP Couple
32 weeks ago

'Merry Christmas'

It's etymology is:

"The earliest known use of the noun toe-rag is in the 1860s.

OED's earliest evidence for toe-rag is from 1864, in the writing of J. F. Mortlock."

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By *ornucopiaMan
32 weeks ago

Bexley

"Interested to see the inclusion of the term 'toe rag'.

Surely the correct spelling should be 'tow rag', 'tow' being a grade of cotton and nothing to do with feet.

All the searches I have done have the spelling as:

**toerag** ie:

toerag

/ 't???ræg /

noun

slang.

a contemptible or despicable person

toerag in British English

Collins Dictionary.

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toerag

noun [ C ]

UK informal

/'to?.ræg/ uk

/'t??.ræg/

Add to word list

an extremely unpleasant person

Cambridge Dictionary

The most far fetched explanation has got to be the one about sailors towing a communal arse wiping flannel behind the boat to keep it clean. That sounds like a spoof answer from Private eye's 'Notes and Queries'.

What would have been wrong with a bucket of water and the left hand?

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By *atEvolution OP Couple
32 weeks ago

'Merry Christmas'

"Interested to see the inclusion of the term 'toe rag'.

Surely the correct spelling should be 'tow rag', 'tow' being a grade of cotton and nothing to do with feet.

All the searches I have done have the spelling as:

**toerag** ie:

toerag

/ 't???ræg /

noun

slang.

a contemptible or despicable person

toerag in British English

Collins Dictionary.

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toerag

noun [ C ]

UK informal

/'to?.ræg/ uk

/'t??.ræg/

Add to word list

an extremely unpleasant person

Cambridge Dictionary

What would have been wrong with a bucket of water and the left hand?"

I had never heard it before.

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