Comments on: 10 Insulting Words You Don’t Know

By: Abeda Lynn Alexander

Abeda Lynn Alexander — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:34:03 +0000

Peddleback machine, Chinese goat teeth, No teeth dog

By: Abeda Lynn Alexander

Abeda Lynn Alexander — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:30:01 +0000

Egyptian Crapaud/ Toad

By: Abeda Lynn Alexander

Abeda Lynn Alexander — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:27:51 +0000

Vagabond- an ass, a donkey, or Earlecia Allen from Guyana

By: bob jenkins

bob jenkins — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:37:11 +0000

bob jenkins : hi there and i believe that this site is funny oh yer rocketmouse you sir are a dickhead

By: F Ivatt

F Ivatt — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:05:50 +0000

Somewhere, in some language, there must be a word with no definition, except that it is worse than anything you compare it to, an infinite insult. I challenge anyone who reads this to find such a word.

By: rocketmouse

rocketmouse — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:12:46 +0000

Say to a lady: “You are meretriciously bedizened,” and see what happens. A friend of mine did and got what he deserved.

By: Scrabble :)

Scrabble :) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:44:32 +0000

@robinbloor I'd buy it for scrabble!

By: robinbloor

robinbloor — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:43:04 +0000

Robin Bloor Probably not for scrabble...

By: ZZzzZZzzZZZ

ZZzzZZzzZZZ — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:55:11 +0000

-_- and people would buy it for Scrabble
or 5 minute novelty?

By: RB

RB — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:00:30 +0000

The term “hobo” is first attested in 1889 three years before Walt Whitman’s death. It means, according to consensus, vagabond, in the sense of someone who is homeless and wanders from place to place in search of employment. It came into common usage in the Great Depression when some newspapers were inclined to refer to the unemployed, rather unfairly, as bums. At that time it was associated with riding freight trains, which was the most practical means of transport for vagabonds. The word is often used perjoratively, like tramp in British English. The English tramps were exactly the same unemployed people from exactly the same economic depression.
To call Whitman a hobo is metaphorical and “romantic.” He seemed to live a peripatetic life which was, to some extent, idealized by the Beat poets.