Teenage boys and insults -- help!

[Hex]

You are all amazing. Thank you. I think I need to write something a little more adult, maybe, or a little less real-world just to get to use some of these. When my son was younger, he used to say D'arvit from the Artemis Fowl books. It sounds rude, but it isn't. My younger son has a full grasp of all kinds of vocabulary. Lucky me.

@Alex The G and T -- it's weird how word usage becomes so different. It would sound to me like Jeeves and Wooster if someone used 'rotter'.

@JS Wiig -- I think that's my favourite.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

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Of course! How could we forget the bard's insults

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I particularly like
- Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, bull’s-pizzle, you stock-fish!
- Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!
- Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!

There's even a 'Yo mama' insult in there:
Villain, I have done thy mother - Titus Andronicus (Act 4, Scene 2)

 

[Wayne Mack]

You could also simply google 'insults.' Be warned, though, this could be a rat hole that derails your writing for the day.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Slightly-more-than-teenage girl says douche or jerk. Also, tool.

 

[The Big Peat]

The idea anyone under the age of a 100 would use rotter as an everyday insult is just fantastically mindblowing to me. Thank you for making my day better.

We're in the States, mind, but I asked my son (18, last year of high school) and he said he'd probably call the guy a word that rhymes with itch or the one that rhymes with stick. Or work in a 'your mom' insult.

Tbh, my initial thought on reading the scenario, which I held back on for some reason, was the character should retort:

"You got a dirty mouth?" I lean back in my chair and grin at him. "You been licking out your mum again?"

His mother, his hygiene, his sexual morals - all worked in.