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Handprints said:
berk (the derivation is the most obscene thing, wholly unknown by people
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*grin*

There was a point at which the SO and I were considering expressing our admiration of the SO's employer with a gift of a framed copy of a painting entitled "The Berkshire Hunt." ;) Fortunately, the employer found his reason again. He's really a good a sort.
 

Nork
Ride the lightning
Hawk one's mutton
Khyber pass
Keester
One-way pockets
Oick
Jungle bunny
Joy-popper
Gender-bender
Gazunder
Fundie
Frippet
Toff
Gas-passer
Tranny
Trog
 
"Split mutton." There's some Victorian slang that has stayed, not in my speech, but in my mind.
 

Flog the mule
Pole smoker
Hershey highway
Preggers
On the bus
 
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Dick brain is my favourite expletive when driving.....unfortunately I forget myself when driving, so the inlaws have been privvy to my outbursts.....*sigh*
 
I'm a fan of

asswipe
fuckwaffle
spermburper
and my sainted mother's expletive tirade "shitpissfuckandamn!"
 

I have to admit I'm partial to Tom Wolfe's use and popularization (if not origination) of:
"Cum dumpster"
in I Am Charlotte Simmons.


 
What precisely is meant by "berk"? I do know that the cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is known by his full first name because he worked in the UK and could not have been known as Berk even though it doesn't have much connotation in the States.
 
SlickTony said:
What precisely is meant by "berk"? I do know that the cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is known by his full first name because he worked in the UK and could not have been known as Berk even though it doesn't have much connotation in the States.
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It's from Cockney rhyming slang, following the characteristic pattern of picking a short phrase (often two words) in which the last word rhymes with the intended term. It's then often shortened to just the first part of the phrase, which can leave the origins difficult to see.

Examples, with apologies for choosing some rather stereotyped-to-the-point-of-lampooned old examples:

Head = loaf of bread = loaf. "Use yer loaf!"

Mate = china plate = china. "Right, me old china?"

Phone = dog and bone. That one still gets used intact.

The word "berk" is a derogatory term derived from the rhyming phrase "Berkshire hunt," with the rhyme connecting to "cunt." With that said, "berk" tends to get used more like "idiot" and is more capable of being used jokingly with friends - "You daft berk."
 
"Motherfucker" was a favorite catchall of mone for a long time (till I had kids), it can be used as a general purpose noun:

"gimme that motherfucker", "She's one hot motherfucker" etc., or as an adverb: "that was a motherfucker"! Etc.

Old favorites:

Cunt - a deliberately perversely contentious person, applied to both sexes, favored over the overused:

bitch, which is commonly applied only to males, and can be affectionate.

Twat - a silly cunt.
Gonad - variation.

Whore - see motherfucker above, though usually confined to inanimate objects, usually recalcitrant tools, connectors, nails, screws, etc., surfaces or objects being tooled or connected, etc., trying to start a nail in some fascia 30 feet off the ground while hanging with one hand off some suicide scaffolding might earn a "motherfucking whore"!

More recently:
chizzwad
tool
 
Shitweasel. Even though I'm the only one I've heard use this term I can't think it's new. Oh, and shitbird and shitheels.

Thanks, Shang! I love rhyming slang. It's a shame it never got beyond the sound of the Bow bells. I know a few others: apples & pears=stairs, greengages=wages.
 
More:

Fartsucker

Shit-for-brains

Shithead

Dweeb

Mama's boy

Assface

Asswipe

Jack-off

Dumbass

Twit

Goober

Nosepicking fool

Wimp
 
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