These usages are arranged alphabetically here, all having something to do with the theme of "dismissive remarks." For fuller information about each usage, see the main list. There are twenty-six files there. Just click on to the appropriate letter. It is not there there are no remarkable instances of conventional praising in this speech community. There are plenty of phrases such as "You're the bomb!" or "You're it!" meaning that a person is superb or the cat's meow. Another very positive appraisal: "He'd get round widout crutches, dat feller." It is just that there seem to be so many more and such a variety of critical or antagonistic remarks, that this collector feels overwhelmed by the latter.
a bit of a divvy: stupid
a right we: totally uninitiated
ardclock: hard-faced
ardfaced git: impudent
artificial silk: lawyer in title only
backbencher: little to say
barm pot: daft
barmisod: a daft loser
beady-eyed bastard: overly inquisitive
bed wetter: early riser
berk: a dope
big girl's blouse: pretentious but useless
big blow: braggart
binhead: stupid
blodger: hanger-on
bolshie: pushy, confrontational
Bossie Britches: officious matron
buck, a: street hood
Busy Lizzie: busybody
cack-handed camel: inept
clat tale tit: informer
clergy, the: after hours drunks
clever clogs: a know-it-all
cod: pretender
come-overs: visitors to the Isle of Man
corksucker: an American
cow-(h)ead: simpleton
cow bag: contemptuous reference to a woman
cowboys: shoddy workmen
crates: immigrants
creepin' Jesus: the perpetual martyr
d.o.a.: a hopeless idiot
dog's body, a: lowest of the menials
dozy bugger: incompetent
dragon, a: a dificult woman
drongo: worthless person
dry sod: subtle sense of humor
finny-addy: smoked haddock
fly: tricky
Frankenstein: mother-in-law
gink: a bad actor, low life
gob shakes, the: compulsive talker
gom: a fool
Good Ship Neverbudge: landlubbers pretending to be sailors
gormless: stupid
granny gore: crotchety
jink: a Jonah
jump-up: an ambitious climber
long string o'misery: whiner
long string o' summat-er-other: unlikable
Luke Har, a: condescending upper class person
Marks and Spencer: a perpetual duo, but never quite to the altar
melt: worthless
minesweeper: stealer of drinks and food in the pub
Moses: garrulous
nomark: nonentity
old tosh: nonsense
omadhaun: fool
one of Lewis': inert
pennuth o' God (h)elp us: trivial
queen of the wash house: a gossip
quilt: unmanly
red-blooded, all-American fullback: braggart
Rockefeller: tight-fisted
Rose of Tralee: slovenly
sconehead: foolish
scut: low life
sherper: unscrupulous
shit stirrer: trouble-maker
skinny-arsed bastard: cheap
slate missing, to have a: to be off mentally
snide, a: a stickler
snidey: cheap
soft: stupid
soppy: worthless
stick man: dapper
swot: overly-earnest
tartar, a: a task master
tata: foolish
ten pence to the shillun: mentally deficient
ther likes of `er
thick: stupid
toerag: contemptible
tomnoddies: local fools
tuppence ha'penny: inferior
wally: imbecile
wet sod: bore
wise Herbert, a: an untrustworthy person
SAYINGS (DISMISSIVE REMARKS)
`Es so low `e could walk under a snake wirr a top `at on.
Them two cuddn fill a bath with water, even if thee knew where the tap was.
I was born and raised a Catholic, burr I cuddent give a rats left knacker(testicle) about em.
I wouldn't pick him up with two shitty sticks.
I've seen more go inna traffic light.
The state of dat and der price of fish! :what I have to put up with!
talk the leg off a brass donkey she will
I don't know a blind word he says
He's got a head big as Birkenhead
She's got a mouth like a parish oven
couldn't climb a ten foot ladder
don't know Thursday from Breakfast time
can't tell 'is tits in a black sack
He'd forget his arse if it wasn't riveted on
He knows a few words...he's been to collitch
got a gob like a bee's bum ( very sharp tongued)
got more kid than a pregnant goat (always clowning about something)
got more bum than brains
couldn't kick a snadger(sparrow) up its arse
so sharp he can cut putty
so thick he can't leak
thinks 'e's 'eap big but'e's just a big 'eap
thinks wood don't grow on trees
a bit of a divvy
He's not a full shilling
There's no oil in his lamp
He doesn't have all his chairs at home
She's got a personality like an open grave
He's only got two brain cells and one of them is lonely: one career in nocturnal food services coming up!
He can sing for toffee: not a great singing voice
It's enough to make a bitch cack on her pups! :what is this world coming to?
Unlucky? He'd break his leg in the eye hospital.
Of a poor dancer: it's like a horse trampling in manure
If it was raining soup, he's be standing with a fork in his hand: losers are born!
Sounds like a pig in pain: it's difficult to be listening to a child's music practice
The pong(obnoxious odor) was enough to knock a buzzard off a bin lorry(garbage truck).
She's as thick as two short planks: a walking blonde joke.
Damn, damn, double damn, 50 buggers and a blast!: one more screw up to deal with!
I would rather watch an egg boil. A yank might say, "this bores my arse blue."
Didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or burst out in pimples: words and everything else failed me.
She'd scare a monkey out of a banana tree: the chick is ferocious.
He's a pig's wank in a dirty tissue: you can't get much lower than that.
He's lost the plot, him: clueless, not safe on the street
They stick together like shit to a blanket: inseparable and predictable.
It's all gin and oranges: it's matter of indifference, it's all the same to me.
The rags on his backside are battering his brains out
Right little ta-ta, that one: childish and insipid
If (someone or something) is (someone or something), then I'm a Dutchman
Gorra face like a farmer's arse on a frosty morning
Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
Me dad's going on about his same guy as if the sun shines out of his ass
It's getting right up my bra.
These prats really irk my shingles
Looks like a drink of water dressed up
This audience is a bunch of pit props. They wouldn't laugh if they saw the chair walking
One tale's good till another's told