New Insults/Slurs

I suppose this isn't truly the correct forum for this thread, but at the same time the pre-1900 forum isn't either. Basically, my idea revolves around language and how it is sometimes socially constructed. For example, all of the curse words, slurs, insults, etc. come from some period in history. Using that example, can anyone think up a "new" insult or whatnot that comes out of history? Feel free to use any WIs you wish to.
 
Chan

The gypsy word for "child" is "Chav", they used it as a term of endearment and it got picked up on and made into a racial slur for gypsy. At some point it became the English word for a certain type of working class, baseball cap wearing type.

In a world where Japan for some reason became an English Dominion, and Japanese people immigrated to England "Chan" might be used in a similar way to mean a certain type of Japanese working class sort.

Shlemiel

One of the many Yiddish words for "idiot". Yiddish is an amazing language to call someone an idiot in. There's so many different ways of saying it. I love the language and I wish English borrowed more words from it.

Mosleyan

Not really an insult, but I'm imagining it being used a bit like a cross between "Nazi" and "Orwellian" todescribe people who act in a way that is similar to Britain's short lived fascist dictatorship... On that note:

Orwellian

In a world where Orwell died before making 1984, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" becomes his most famous book. An Orwellian life-style is one that is dirt poor, self pitying and almost entirely hopeless.

Churchill-Era

Used in papers in Britain in a Nazis win WWII universe. Means inefficient, totalitarian and (of course) evil.

Saesneg

Welsh for English. I am English and I live in Wales. So I know if someone says it they're insulting me. Though I speak very little Welsh. In a world where the Welsh played a bigger role in the colonisation of Austalia, say, I could see it becoming one of the major racial slurs against the English.

Fek!

Esperanto for excrement. Quite a nice little expletive.
 
Thande!!!!

Started when the blaming of everything on Thande expanded into the internet and later the world through a sentient Google:D
 
In 1920, a radical offshoot of the IRA appeared, calling itself the Children of the Holy Cross. Their secret paramilitary wing immediately made itself known, being caught in the Second Gunpowder Plot on the 5th November that year, and the police found their name... the Daggers.

Over the years, "Dagger" has spread from that one group to all Irish terrorists, and eventually all Irish Catholics were covered by the term "Dagger".
 
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