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From Old English ærs or ears, meaning 'buttocks' or 'tail,' from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, cognate with Old High German ars...

Two distinct etymological lines converge in modern 'ass.' The first, meaning donkey, derives from Old English assa, from...

A compound of 'arse,' from Old English 'ærs' (buttocks), cognate with Old High German 'ars' and Old Norse 'ars,' ultimat...

From Old French bastard (11th century), likely from fils de bast ('son of the packsaddle'), a reference to conception on...

A compound of 'bell' (from Old English belle) and 'end,' originating as anatomical slang for the glans penis, whose shap...

From Old English bicce ('female dog'), of uncertain further origin. Possibly from Old Norse bikkja ('female dog') or fro...

From Old English blōdig ('covered in blood'), from blōd ('blood') + -ig (adjectival suffix). The intensifier usage, firs...

From Old English beallucas, plural of bealluc, meaning 'testicles.' The term is cognate with Old Norse bǫllr ('ball') an...

From Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus ('Bulgarian'). The Bogomil heresy, which originated in Bulgaria in ...

A compound of 'bull' and 'shit,' first attested in the early 20th century. The 'bull' element has been the subject of co...

A compound of 'chicken' (long established as a metaphor for cowardice, attested in this figurative sense since at least ...

The slur is generally understood to derive from China, with the addition of the common English diminutive or clipping su...

From Old English cocc, originally denoting a male chicken (rooster). The word is likely of onomatopoeic origin, imitatin...

The origin is disputed. The most widely cited derivation traces the term to the Elizabethan English verb 'crack,' meanin...

From Middle English crappe ('chaff, grain residue'), from Old French crappe ('siftings, waste'). The scatological meanin...

From Old English crypel ('one who creeps, a crippled person'), related to Old English crēopan ('to creep') and cognate w...

From Old Norse kunta or Proto-Germanic *kuntō, cognate with Middle English cunte, Old Frisian kunte, Middle Low German k...

Derived from Diego, the common Spanish given name (itself from Latin Didacus, possibly from Greek didakhē, 'teaching'). ...

From Old French damner, from Latin damnare ('to condemn, to inflict loss upon'), itself derived from damnum ('loss, dama...

A compound of 'dick,' a slang term for the penis attested since the late 18th century (itself possibly derived from the ...

A compound of 'dip' and 'shit,' originating in mid-20th-century American English. The 'dip' element has been the subject...

From French douche ('shower, jet of water'), itself from Italian doccia ('conduit pipe, shower'), derived from Latin duc...

A compound of 'douche' (from French douche, 'shower,' itself from Italian doccia, from Latin ductio, 'a leading or conve...

From Old English dumb ('silent, mute, unable to speak'), from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz ('silent, dull'), cognate with Old ...

The etymological origin of this term remains uncertain and is the subject of ongoing scholarly debate. One theory derive...

From Old French fagot ('bundle of sticks'), possibly from Italian fagotto, of uncertain ultimate origin. Some scholars h...

The anatomical slang sense is widely believed to derive from John Cleland's novel Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Plea...

Origin debated. Likely from Proto-Germanic *fukkōn, possibly related to Middle Dutch fokken ('to thrust, to breed'), Swe...

A dialectal variant of 'get,' from Old Norse geta ('to obtain, beget'), which in Middle English developed the sense of '...

A compound of 'God' and 'damn,' formed by the direct invocation of divine condemnation. The phrase 'God damn' was attest...

The etymology of this term is among the most disputed of any English-language slur, with multiple competing theories and...

From Old English hel or hell, from Proto-Germanic *haljō ('the underworld, concealed place'), from PIE root *kel- ('to c...

The origin is contested. The most frequently cited derivation traces the term to 'hunky,' a late 19th-century slur direc...

A compound of 'jack' (a generic name for a male animal, particularly a donkey, attested from the sixteenth century) and ...

Formed as a compound nominalization of the phrasal verb 'jerk off,' meaning to masturbate. The verb 'jerk' has been atte...

The origin of this term is actively disputed among etymologists. One prominent theory traces it to the Yiddish diminutiv...

Derived from Middle English knobbe, meaning a knot, lump, or rounded protuberance, with cognates in Middle Low German kn...

From Old English lama ('weak-limbed, crippled, paralyzed'), from Proto-Germanic *lamaz ('lame'), cognate with Old Norse ...

Derived from the Scots dialect verb 'ming,' meaning 'to smell badly, to stink,' itself possibly related to Old English g...

A compound of 'mother' and 'fucker,' formed in American English. The earliest recorded uses have been traced to African ...

Derived from Spanish negro and Portuguese negro ('black'), themselves from Latin niger ('black, dark, swarthy'). The wor...

The precise etymology is disputed. Several competing derivations have been proposed: (1) from 'nonsense,' shortened in p...

An inversion of 'woodpecker,' with the transposition of the compound elements serving as a marker of African American ve...

Derived from the Middle English pillicock, a term for the penis, itself from Scandinavian sources (compare Norwegian dia...

From Old French pissier ('to urinate'), attested from the twelfth century. The Old French form is generally considered t...

From Old English prica or pricca, meaning a point, dot, or small mark, with cognates in Middle Low German pricke and Dut...

The etymology is complicated by the convergence of at least two distinct lineages. The 'cat' sense is attested from the ...

From German quer ('oblique, cross, at right angles'), entering Scots English in the early sixteenth century with the sen...

A compound of 'red' and 'neck,' referring to the sunburned necks of outdoor laborers, particularly agricultural workers ...

From Latin retardare ('to make slow, to delay, to hinder'), composed of re- ('back') and tardare ('to slow'), from tardu...

From Yiddish שמאָק (shmok), meaning 'penis,' itself derived from an older Germanic root possibly related to Old High Ger...

A compound of 'scum' and 'bag,' originating as slang for a used condom. 'Scum' in this context referred to semen (a usag...

Derived from Old English sceacga, meaning rough, matted hair or a rough head of hair, with possible cognates in Old Nors...

From Old English scitte ('diarrhea') and scitan ('to defecate'), from Proto-Germanic *skit- ('to separate, divide'), fro...

From Middle Low German slagge, meaning 'waste matter from metal smelting,' cognate with Middle High German slacke and re...

From Middle English 'slutte,' first attested in the late 14th century with the meaning of an untidy or slovenly woman. T...

A mid-nineteenth-century abbreviation of 'sodomite,' itself from Old French sodomite, from Late Latin sodomita, from the...

A compound insult formed from 'son' and 'bitch,' where 'bitch' retains its original sense of a female dog, and the phras...

The racial slur derives not from the Old English spadu ('digging tool'), but from the suit in playing cards, which enter...

The etymology is contested, with several competing theories and no scholarly consensus. The most widely cited derivation...

From Old English titt, meaning 'teat' or 'nipple,' cognate with Middle Low German titte and Old Norse tittr. The word is...

Derived from the verb 'toss' with the agentive suffix '-er.' The insult sense is traced to the phrase 'toss off,' which ...

A clipped form derived from 'transsexual' or 'transvestite,' both of which entered English from medical and psychiatric ...

From Old English 'tord,' meaning a piece of excrement, from Proto-Germanic '*turdą,' cognate with Old Norse 'tord-ýfill'...

Possibly derived from Old Norse þveit, meaning a cut, slit, or forest clearing. The term appeared in Middle English with...

Derived from the verb 'wank,' meaning 'to masturbate,' with the agentive suffix '-er.' The verb 'wank' is of uncertain o...

A compound of wet and back, referring literally to the physical condition of a person who has crossed the Rio Grande by ...

From Old English hōre ('prostitute, adulteress'), from Proto-Germanic *hōrōn, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- ('to desir...

A compound of 'whore' (from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrōn, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- mea...

The origin has been the subject of persistent popular misconception. The widely circulated claim that 'wop' is an acrony...