What’s an insult in America that isn’t common overseas?

40 comments

1. Ya jabroni!

2. Calling someone a redneck

3. Calling someone trailer trash in most places.

4. “Damn Yankee” is so specific to the southern U.S. that the insult would be lost on anyone overseas.

5. Douche canoe probably

6. “Cowboys fan”

7. “The jerk store called — they’re running outta you!”

8. There are a few racial slurs, I’d rather not repeat.

9. Asked a buddy of mine who’s Swiss and lived in the US for many years: the answer is douchebag

10. Ill give you one of the converse ones you asked for. I lived in Australia and had no frickin clue what a ‘pooftah’ was. I learned eventually but when I hear it I still cant think of it as an insult, I just laugh when its said. It sounds funny when spoken.

11. Bless your heart. (It’s all in the tone.)

12. Bless your heart.

13. Is telling someone to go pound sand common overseas?

14. My Israeli friend told he his favorite insult in Arabic is “may you have a thousand dicks in your ass”

    From my Croatian friend: (apparently it’s a common one there) “I fucked your mother in the ass and then in the mouth”

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16. Calling someone a Hoosier. Only people in Indiana think it is a compliment. In Missouri it’s an insult.

    A friend went to work in Arkansas and they called her THE YANKEE. Not a compliment.

17. Goober is my personal favorite. Basically an inoffensive catchall insult with endless applications.

18. You sweet summer child.

19. Bless your heart. Chinga tu madre. Telosico. Ol bitch ass. Mark ass trick, trick ass mark.

20. Sklipper. It’s like a hard core swear. Use it.

21. When you start a sentence with “God love him, but…..” It’s basically a total insult, but it’s ok to say it because “God loves him.”

22. Woodchuck

23. Hippie.

24. Douchebag

25. Poopyface

26. “Head ass” lmao can be used in either insulting or just joking around. Can also be attached to other words.

    “Ol’ *insert literally anything* head ass”

27. Calling someone a Puss.

28. Jack wagon

29. idk i have never left america 💀

30. Douche Nozzle

31. Buddy

32. For the Southern USA, “Well Bless Your Heart, Aren’t Your Precious?”

    It’s a compliment when said to a toddler.

    For everyone else, it’s basically saying you know as little as a toddler and should be treated as such.

33. “Fuck nugget”

34. *Bless your heart*

    Basically it’s southern USian for “you’re a dumb*ss”

35. Years ago I worked with a guy from India. He up one day offered to teach us how to swear in Hindi. We went through many of the usual simple ones (ala George Carlin).

    When we asked how to say “Kiss my ass” he lost it as he said nobody in India would ever say that. He told us the literal translation.

36. Shit kicker. Basically, a hillbilly.

37. Bless your heart, I’ll pray for you.

38. Calling someone a cunt is an extreme insult here, but in other English speaking countries guys call their friends that in a joking way.

39. Bless your heart

40. Calling people you don’t like ‘mate’ is an insult in Australia lol