Derogatory Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Pejorative, offensive. Used to demean, belittle, or disparage. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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Taig n. If guns are made for shooting, then skulls are made to crack. You’ve never seen a better Taig than with a bullet in his back. [English Ireland United Kingdom Religion Derogatory] [full cite] (May. 6, 2004)

terror-clown n. The car bombs—one parked outside a London nightclub, one near Trafalgar Square and one driven into Glasgow airport—seemed especially incompetent. Lewis Page, a former bomb-disposal officer, suspects the patio-gas canisters crammed into the three vehicles would not have made much of a bang even if they had gone off. The “terror-clowns,” as he calls them, had their second London car bomb towed away by parking wardens; the driver of the Glasgow jeep doused himself in petrol only to be put out again by the fire brigade. [English Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2007)

thick blue line n. A new report from the national police academy points to such a lack of intellectual rigour among new recruits that the force is now unflatteringly being referred to as New Zealand’s “thick blue line.” [English New Zealand Police Derogatory] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2007)

timber nigger n. In Hayward, Wis., the white locals call the Indians “timber niggers.” [English Native American Race Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 8, 2007)

tinfoil turban n. At the fringe were what my friend David Gonzalez refers to as “tinfoil turban” types who believed (and probably still do) that nothing of the sort was happening—that those damn Communists were just trying to put the West off its guard. [ Language English Register Derogatory Subject Politics] [full cite] (Jan. 1, 2006)

to-do haole n. In these jungled thickets, hot enough to make lipstick melt, the escapist Garden of Eden fantasies of “to-do haole,” as rich Caucasians are called, converge and occasionally collide with native truths. [English Hawaiian Derogatory] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2007)

toolie n. “The big problem is the sleazy predators who try to take advantage of our kids—‘toolies,’ as the schoolies call them. “I don’t need to spell out that teenage girls are particularly vulnerable to these creeps.” [English Australia Education Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 29, 2004)

towel-biter n. I remember what Kerry said during the campaign! What he and his fellow Democratic towel-biters said was that this election wasn’t going to happen. [English Derogatory] [full cite] (Feb. 21, 2005)

trapo n. The very term “trapo” must have been invented because of Jose de Venecia. A trapo through and through even before trapo entered the lexicon, he was already a trapo in Ferdinand Marcos’s Batasang Pambansa, the martial law era “parliament.” [Philippines Politics Derogatory] [full cite] (May. 31, 2004)

trapo n. In the 1987 legislative elections, the National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL)—which exposed President Ferdinand Marcos’s attempts to rig the 1986 elections—did not contest the election of many traditional politicians, derogatorily called trapos (Tagalog for “dirty rag”). [Tagalog Philippines Politics Derogatory] [full cite] (Jun. 5, 2004)

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