Daft_ish@lemmy.world to

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?

105

What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?

Daft_ish@lemmy.world to

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

Chat

S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
link
fedilink
arrow-up
7·
6 months ago
Non native speaker here and is the only of the 2 I didn’t get. Spanner is the other one.
- VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
  link
  fedilink
  arrow-up
  10·
  edit-2
  6 months ago
  Spanner is British/Irish means idiot or tool. See also muppet.

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml

asklemmy@lemmy.ml

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it’s welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

_Icon _by _{@[email protected]}

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

1.25K users / day
4.94K users / week
10.6K users / month
22.8K users / 6 months
4 local subscribers
43.8K subscribers
2.91K Posts
122K Comments
Modlog