Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| adultescent | an adult whose activities and interests are typically associated with youth culture. |
| angishore | (Canadian) a weak miserable person. |
| antwackie | old-fashioned. |
| asswipe | (US offensive) another term for arse. |
| barathrum | (Lat.) an insatiable extortioner or glutton; (hist.) a pit in Athens into which condemned criminals were thrown. |
| bastard | an illegitimate child. |
| bastardly | like a bastard; baseborn; spurious. |
| baster | a bastard, a person conceived and born out of wedlock. |
| bedwetter | a person who urinates in bed. |
| bigot | a prejudiced person. |
| bigoted | like a bigot, intolerant. |
| bigotedly | (Adv.) BIGOTED, like a bigot, intolerant. |
| bleeder | one that bleeds. |
| blinkard | (Arch.) one who blinks or has weak eyes. |
| blusterer | one who blusters. |
| blusterous | inclined to bluster. |
| blusterously | (Adv.) BLUSTEROUS, inclined to bluster. |
| blustrous | (Shakesp.) inclined to bluster. |
| bobo | a well-to-do person who holds bohemian values and leads a bourgeois life. |
| bolshie | a leftwing person; an obstreperous person. |
| brownshirt | a Nazi, a Fascist. |
| buccaneer | a pirate, orig of the Spanish-American coasts; an unscrupulous adventurer; (verb) to act as a buccaneer. |
| buccaneerish | of or like a buccaneer. |
| buccanier | a pirate, orig of the Spanish-American coasts; an unscrupulous adventurer; (verb) to buccaneer. |
| bureaucrat | a member of a bureaucracy. |
| cacafogo cacafuego | a person with a fierce temper; a vain braggart. |
| carborexic | a person who is regarded as being obsessed with reducing their carbon footprint. |
| carpetbagger | a Northerner in the South after the American Civil War usually seeking private gain under the reconstruction governments. |
| carpetbaggery | the actions of a carpetbagger. |
| chairwarmer | an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective. |
| chancer | one who takes a chance. |
| chauvin | (Fr.) one with excessive pride in his own country. |
| chauvinist | one who is blindly patriotic. |
| chav | (Coll.) a young working class person who wears casual sports clothes. |
| chavish | like a chav. |
| chavtastic | suitable for use by a chav. |
| chavvy | like a chav. |
| chugger | a charity worker who approaches people in the street to solicit them for regular donations. |
| clerkling | a small clerk. |
| cocooner | one who retreats to the private world of the family. |
| conchie | (Coll.) a conscientious objector. |
| conchy | (Coll.) a conscientious objector. |
| crachach | (Welsh) Welsh people who snobbishly affect English customs, manners and speech. |
| crapehanger | a morose, gloomy, or pessimistic person. |
| crookback | (Shakesp.) a hunchback. |
| crumblies | (Sl.) very old people. |
| crustily | (Adv.) CRUSTY, covered with a crust. |
| crusty | covered with a crust (noun) a young vagrant with matted hair |
| cutup | a mischievous person. |
| daydreamer | one who daydreams. |
| deader | a dead person. |
| declassee | of a female person, reduced or degraded in social class or status. |
| demic | relating to a demos. |
| destructo | (Aust. sl.) a destructive person. |
| dirtball | a dirty or contemptible person. |
| dullsville | a boring place where nothing happens. |
| dumpee | the person in a relationship being dumped. |
| fashionist | a follower or setter of fashion. |
| fashionista | a follower or setter of fashion. |
| flyaway | streaming, flighty; (noun) an elusive person. |
| footdragger | one who engages in footdragging. |
| frenemy | a person who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy. |
| fucker | one that fucks; a general term of abuse. |
| fuckoff | an annoying or unpleasant person. |
| fustianist | a writer of fustian. |
| fustilarian | (Shakesp.) a fat and slovenly person. |
| fustilirian | (Shakesp.) a term of abuse. |
| fustillirian | (Shakesp.) a term of abuse. |
| gadabout | one who is always rushing around. |
| galere | (Fr.) a group of esp undesirable people; an unpleasant situation. |
| gamin | (Fr.) a street urchin; a precocious imp. |
| gapeseed | anything that causes stares; or someone who stares. |
| gatecrasher | one who attends parties uninvited. |
| gomer | an unwanted hospital patient. |
| grebo | a devotee of heavy metal or grunge music, with unkempt hair and clothes > GREBOS or GREBOES. |
| greebo | an unkempt young man > GREEBOES or GREEBOS. |
| greedhead | an avaricious person. |
| gurrier | in Dublin, a low-class tough ill-mannered person. |
| gutterblood | (Scots) a lowborn person. |
| haramda | (Hinglish) an illegitimate male. |
| haramzada | (Hinglish) an illegitimate male. |
| hardass | (Coll.) a tough person. |
| hardcase | a person difficult to deal with or reform. |
| hardface | a soullessly relentless person. |
| hardman | (Sl.) a tough, ruthless man. |
| hardnose | a tough, unsentimental person. |
| hardrock | (Coll.) a tough, uncompromising man. |
| hepster | (Sl.) one who is hep, streetwise. |
| hireling | one that works for money only. |
| homebird | a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home. |
| horson | (Shakesp.) a whoreson. |
| hotblood | a reckless person. |
| hotdogger | one who hotdogs, shows off. |
| hothead | an impetuous person. |
| hotheaded | rash, impetuous. |
| hotheadedly | (Adv.) HOTHEADED, rash, impetuous. |
| hotspur | a rash, hotheaded man. |
| hyper | excitable > HYPERER, HYPEREST; (noun) an excitable person. |
| illegal | not legal (noun) an illegal immigrant |
| illegally | (Adv.) ILLEGAL, not legal. |
| infidelic | of or like an infidel. |
| intemperant | a person who is intemperate. |
| jingo | a chauvinistic, sabre-rattling patriot. |
| jingoist | a blindly patriotic person. |
| lameter | (Dial.) a cripple. |
| lamiger | (Dial.) a cripple. |
| lamiter | (Dial.) a cripple. |
| lammiger | (Dial.) a cripple. |
| landshark | a person who makes inordinate profits by buying and selling land. |
| laodicean | a person having a lukewarm attitude in religious matters. |
| laughingstock | an object of ridicule. |
| leggism | (Arch.) the character of a blackleg. |
| litterbug | someone who creates litter. |
| louser | (Irish) a mean, nasty person. |
| lowbrow | not intellectual; (noun) an uncultivated person. |
| lowbrowed | of vulgar tastes. |
| lowbrowism | the state of being a lowbrow. |
| macho | (Spanish) aggressively virile; (noun) a man of this type. |
| machoism | the quality of being macho. |
| makebate | (Arch.) a mischief-maker. |
| malignancy | the state of being malignant. |
| malignant | evil, malign (noun) a supporter of the royalist cause during the English civil war |
| malignantly | (Adv.) MALIGNANT, evil, malign. |
| middlebrow | a person who is moderately but not highly cultivated. |
| miserablist | a person who appears to enjoy being depressed, esp a performer of or listener to gloomy music. |
| moer | (S. Afr.) a despicable person; (verb) to attack someone. |
| mofo | (US) a motherfucker. |
| mossback | a veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. |
| muckymuck | a person who is or looks very important. |
| mudslinger | one who engages in malicious slander intended to discredit another. |
| munter | (Coll.) an unattractive person. |
| mushmouth | (US) a person who slurs or mumbles in speaking. |
| mutha | (Sl.) a motherfucker. |
| naff | tacky (verb) to go away |
| naffly | (Adv.) NAFF, tacky. |
| naffness | the quality of being naff. |
| nailbiter | someone who bites his or her nails. |
| neandertaler | a primitive or reactionary person. |
| neanderthaler | a primitive or reactionary person. |
| newwaver | a member of a new wave. |
| niffnaff | a trifle, a diminutive person; (verb) to trifle. |
| nimbyness | adherence to the doctrine of 'not in my back-yard'. |
| nogoodnik | a bad person. |
| nonentity | a person or thing of no importance. |
| nonpartizan | not partizan. |
| nonperson | someone without the rights of a person. |
| nudnick | (Yiddish) a dense, boring, or bothersome person. |
| nudnik | (Yiddish) a dense, boring, or bothersome person. |
| nuisancer | one who makes or causes a nuisance. |
| obsessionist | someone who is obsessed by a fixed idea. |
| offscouring | someone rejected by society. |
| paleocon | an extremely right-wing conservative. |
| parroter | one who simply repeats what he has heard. |
| partisan | biased (noun) an adherent, esp a blind or unreasoning adherent, of a party or a faction |
| partisanly | (Adv.) PARTISAN, biased. |
| partizan | an adherent, esp a blind or unreasoning adherent, of a party or a faction. |
| patchery | (Shakesp.) knavery. |
| penpusher | a person whose work involves a lot of boring paperwork. |
| perisher | (Coll.) an annoying, contemptible, or pitiable person. |
| philistine | materialistic in outlook; uncultured; (noun) one who is materialistic in outlook. |
| platitudinarian | one who utters platitudes. |
| plugugly | a very ugly person. |
| pompier | (Fr.) of art, conventional, traditional, uninspired; (noun) a conventional or imitative artist. |
| poobah | an influential person. |
| popster | a pop star. |
| pothunter | someone who hunts for the pot; someone who competes merely to get trophies. |
| pottymouth | one given to habitual use of bad language. |
| potzer | (Ger.) an inept chess player. |
| prosumer | an amateur user of electronic equipment suitable for professionals. |
| pussycat | a very amenable person. |
| pussyfooter | one who pussyfoots. |
| quarterdecker | a stickler for naval etiquette. |
| raffish | marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness. |
| raffishly | (Adv.) RAFFISH, cheaply or showily vulgar in appearance or nature. |
| ragamuffin | someone, esp a child, in ragged, dirty clothes |
| ranga | (Aust.) an offensive term for a person with red hair. |
| rantipole | (Arch.) a wild, reckless person; (verb) to act in a wild way. |
| redliner | one that redlines, withholds loans or insurance from certain neighbourhoods. |
| refusenik | (Russian) a Soviet Jew wishing to emigrate; a dissident. |
| refusnik | (Russian) a Soviet Jew wishing to emigrate. |
| ribald | earthily sexy RIBALDLY; (noun, obs.) a menial of the lowest grade; a loose, low character |
| ribaldly | (Adv.) RIBALD, earthily sexy. |
| ribaud | (Spenser) a menial of the lowest grade; a loose, low character. |
| ringleader | a leader of a ring of individuals engaged esp in improper or unlawful activities. |
| roadhog | a selfish or aggressive driver. |
| rorter | a spiv. |
| rotter | a scoundrel. |
| roturier | a plebeian, a commoner; literally, one who breaks ground. |
| rubberneck | an over-inquisitive or gaping person; (verb) to look curiously at something. |
| rudesby | (Shakesp.) an uncivil, turbulent fellow. |
| saddie | a dull unsociable person. |
| scaremonger | one who raises false alarms. |
| schemie | (Scots) derogatory word for member of a housing scheme. |
| schlimazel | (Yiddish) an unlucky person; one with perpetual bad luck. |
| schlump | (Yiddish) a stoop-shouldered person (verb) to flop |
| scofflaw | (US coll.) a person who contemptuously breaks the law. |
| screenager | a socially inept teenager who is adept at electronic communication. |
| scuzzbag | a dirty, disreputable person. |
| securocrat | an important personage in the security services. |
| sheeple | people who follow the herd blindly > SHEEPLES. |
| shieldling | a protected person. |
| shillyshallier | one who is indecisive. |
| shlimazel | (Yiddish) an unlucky person. |
| shlump | (Yiddish) a stoop-shouldered person (verb) to flop |
| shmucky | foolish, contemptible. |
| shonky | (Aust. sl.) unreliable, dishonest. |
| shortarse | (Coll.) a short person. |
| skanger | (Irish) derogatory for a young working-class person who wears casual sports clothes. |
| slapdash | haphazard, careless; (noun) a careless person; (verb) to do in a hasty, imperfect manner. |
| sleazeball | a sleazy person, esp one who tries to take advantage of women. |
| sleazoid | a sleazy person. |
| sleeveen | (Irish) a crafty, smooth-talking person. |
| slimebag | an odious and contemptible person. |
| slimeball | (Sl.) a disgusting person. |
| slob | a slovenly or boorish person (verb) to behave like a slob |
| slumlord | a landlord of slum dwellings. |
| slummer | one who slums. |
| slyboots | a sly person. |
| snollygoster | a shrewd unprincipled person, esp a dishonest politician. |
| softie | a weak or sentimental person. |
| softling | (Arch.) a soft, effeminate person. |
| sonofabitch | an abusive term of address or of description. |
| sorehead | one who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like. |
| sourpuss | a bad-tempered person. |
| speccy | wearing spectacles (noun) someone who is bespectacled |
| spide | (Irish) a young working class man who wears casual sports clothes. |
| spivvery | the world or the practice of spivs. |
| squarer | (Shakesp.) a fighting, quarrelsome person. |
| stalko | (Irish) a gentleman without fortune or occupation. |
| statto | (Coll.) a person who is preoccupied with the facts and figures of a particular subject, esp a sport. |
| stercoranist | a disparaging nickname given to one who holds that the consecrated elements of the Eucharist undergo digestion in and evacuation from the body of the recipient. |
| stinker | a very unpleasant person. |
| stinkeroo | a bad or contemptible person. |
| stirrer | a troublemaker. |
| stodger | a dull, unenterprising person. |
| stowaway | a person who hides in a ship, etc to get a passage. |
| straggler | one who straggles. |
| stumblebum | (US) an awkward person. |
| sucker | somoneone easily duped; (verb) to send out suckers. |
| superbrat | a very brattish child. |
| sybarite | a person who is self-indulgent or devoted to sensuous luxury or pleasure. |
| sybaritic | like a sybarite, devoted to luxury. |
| sybaritical | like a sybarite, devoted to luxury. |
| sybaritically | (Adv.) SYBARITICAL, like a sybarite. |
| tagalong | one who tags along, trails after someone. |
| tailard | (Obs.) a person with a tail. |
| tanky | a hardline communist. |
| tatar | a ferocious person. |
| tatterdemalion | ragged, tattered; (noun) a person in ragged clothes. |
| tatterdemallion | ragged, tattered; (noun) a person in ragged clothes. |
| teenybop | of or pertaining to teenyboppers. No -S. |
| tenderling | one made tender by too much kindness. |
| theologaster | a petty or shallow theologian. |
| tittish | (Sl.) like a teat; contemptible. |
| toolie | in Australia, an adult who gatecrashes the Schoolies Week celebrations, esp one who makes sexual advances towards students. |
| tosser | (Sl.) an unpleasant or despicable person. |
| treachour | (Obs) a traitor. |
| trickster | one who plays tricks. |
| trimmer | one that trims, a politician that constantly changes his views. |
| troublemaker | a person who consciously or unconsciously causes trouble. |
| unperson | a nonperson; (verb) to make someone into an unperson. |
| valetudinarian | a person of weak or sickly constitution. |
| valetudinary | a valetudinarian. |
| varletry | (Shakesp.) the rabble, the crowd. |
| verbalist | a person dealing in or concentrating on mere words rather than reality or meaning. |
| verbalistic | of or like a verbalist. |
| vermin | small, common, harmful, or objectionable animals. |
| vidiot | a habitual undiscriminating viewer of television. |
| vociferant | clamorous; (noun) a vociferant person. |
| voluptuary | a sensualist; a person fond of luxury. |
| vulgar | common (noun) the common people; one of the unrefined |
| vulgarian | a vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. |
| vulgarly | (Adv.) VULGAR, common. |
| whiner | one who whines. |
| whoreson | (Arch.) bastard; whore's son. |
| wildman | a wild person. |
| wirepuller | a person who uses private or secret influence for his own ends. |
| worldling | a person engrossed in concerns of the present world. |
| worryguts | (Coll.) someone who worries a lot. |
| worrywart | a person who worries excessively. |
| wosbird | whore's bird, whore's child, a vulgar term of abuse. |
| yindie | a person in his or her early thirties who combines a lucrative career with non-mainstream tastes. |
| yupster | a hipster with a professional job who seeks to climb the corporate ladder while remaining true to his ideals. |