Verbal abuse

Verbal abuse is a form of abusive behavior involving the use of language. It differs from profanity in that it can occur without the use of expletives. Whilst oral communication is the most common form of verbal abuse, it includes abusive words in written form.

List of words and phrases that can be verbal abuse

• Referring to disability/medical conditions/aids e.g. Peg-leg, gimp, dummy, idiot, dumbo, scarface, spaz, retard, dunce, stupid, moron, peabrain, dickhead, nonce, thick or thicko, slow, and also saying doh! (pronounced dur) and comments on the way a person walks e.g he/she walks like a penguin and for someone who wears glasses using comments such as four eyes/specky four eyes, also making cruel jokes.

• Referring to disfigurement/someone with a skin condition e.g. dirty, monster, frankenstein, asking have they "been in a fire", from outer space, saying somebody doesn't wash etc.

• Referring to someone's morals and behaviour e.g. Liar, cheat, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, goody two shoes, and in women, prostitute, harlot, whore, tart, hussy, slut, slag, scrubber, bitch, cow, cat, Jezebel, bastard, creep, teachers/boss's pet.

• Referring to someone's weight and body shape e.g. fatty, fatso, fatass, lardy, lardass, beanpole, stick, jelly-belly, insect, skeleton and other comments such as, "you'll break the scales".

• Referring to someone still living at home with one or both parents, especially an adult e.g. momma's boy, big girl's blouse, calling them soft or a baby or saying comments like "isn't it about time he/she cut the strings".

• Referring to someone's sexual orientation e.g. backs to the wall, queer, faggot, dyke, carpet-muncher, girl, poof/poofter, nancy-boy, fudge-packer, etc.

• Referring to someone trying to behave in a servile, obsequious, virtuous manner in an insincere way e.g. creep (the rarer form of creep is creeping jesus) worm, snake smarmy. The phrases 'two-faced, two-headed snake, and snake in the grass means someone is nice and acts honest when you are present, but they are unkind about you and/or other people and behave in a dishonest way when you are not there.

• Referring to someone's social class and standing e.g. snob, beggar, toffee-nose, snooty, etc.

• Referring to someone who reports wrong doing/anything immoral e.g. tattle-tale, telltale, gossip, blabbermouth, big mouth, motormouth, informer, mole, grass, sneak, and saying things like telling tales out of school, prissy, prim-and-proper

• Referring to drugs/alcohol e.g. alky, druggie, wino, drunk/drunkard, smackhead, crackhead, junkie, methhead etc.

• Words/phrases/actions in order to reject someone/make someone feel unimportant e.g. - Ignoring, and saying things such as, Who wants to be with you?, not allowing someone to sit with you, not allowing someone to join in events, No boy/girl/woman/man would go out with you, saying people with disabilities/learning difficulties are pests, telling someone of a different race/ethnicity to get 'back to where they came from', being curt and unfriendly with someone daily, all the time or frequently, telling someone who has a facial/body disfigurement to leave the premises as they might be creating a 'health hazard/causing discomfort to other customers'

• Making unkind comments/saying unkind words about someone's clothes, appearance, race, religion, ethnicity, what they drink and what they eat are also forms of verbal abuse.

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