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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chocolate-maker n. The “chocolate-makers” summit (the term deliciously coined by US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher) he hosted left a very bitter transatlantic aftertaste. [English Politics Derogatory] [full cite] (Jun. 23, 2004)

city-it n. Some local surfers complained last week that publicity for the new surfing beach would attract a large influx of city-its (rhymes with idiots), a local term for neophyte surfers from Manhattan. [English Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 8, 2008)

Corrupticut n. Nowadays, from Storrs to Stamford, there are jokes about living in Corrupticut, Connection-icut or, the new favorite, Criminalicut. [Connecticut English Crime & Prisons Derogatory] [full cite] (Feb. 24, 2005)

Corrupticut n. “Connecticut is now derisively referred to as Corrupticut,” hesaid. “Bridgeport has earned a reputation as a place where politicians can be bought.” [Connecticut English Crime & Prisons Derogatory] [full cite] (Feb. 24, 2005)

country bookie n. If one admitted to knowing Hindi, one would be ostracised for being “coolie”; if one admitted to knowing French, as a “country bookie” or “small islander”; Spanish, a “cocoa payol”; and so forth. [English Trinidad & Tobago Derogatory] [full cite] (May. 14, 2004)

cranial-rectal inversion n. I learned that Officer Sam Morgan, of the California Highway Patrol, occasionally uses the term “cranial-rectal inversion” when referring to drivers of especially poor judgment, which was one of the most satisfactory things I learned all summer, come to think of it. [English Derogatory Euphemism] [full cite] (Aug. 2, 2008)

creeping meatballism n. Philistinism—actually, the street term “creeping meatballism” sounds better—spreads through British Columbia’s political class like some zombie virus in a B-grade movie. [English Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 26, 2007)

crimalien n. The venomous rhetoric: A popular Boston talk show host calls them “crimaliens.”…Should Massachusetts allow illegal immigrants the right to attend state colleges at in-state tuition rates it won’t be the end of the world. [English Derogatory] [full cite] (May. 13, 2005)

crock n. Hospital staff privately refer to them as “crocks”—people who repeatedly show up in emergency rooms demanding expensive, exhaustive tests to unearth the elusive cause of their numerous symptoms. Reassurance that their tests don’t show anything amiss has the opposite effect, convincing these patients that physicians haven’t looked hard enough—or don’t believe them. [English Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 3, 2006)

crotch dumpling n. I probably shouldn’t be a mother. At least I didn’t refer to it as a crotch dumpling or placenta mooch like I call other people’s kids. [English Relationships Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 13, 2007)

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