cockwomble
English
Etymology
Shitgibbon compound of cock + Womble
Pronunciation
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
cockwomble (countable and uncountable, plural cockwombles)
- (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- 2007 October 4, gypsy turnips, “Home » Question of the Week » Insults”, in b3ta.com[1], archived from the original on 10 October 07:
- Cockwomble An American lad was annoying the tits off me once so I called him the first thing that came to mind, which was 'cockwomble'. The insult was effective because he did stop winding me up but only to ask me what a cockwomble actually was. I then had to give a detailed explanation about what wombles were and admit that I hadn't really thought that insult through.
- 2015, Chris Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking:
- They even made the mistaken assumption, mainly from the title, that the song had some kind of lesbian message. As Heike put it: 'You can't expect the subliterate cockwombles on the Daily Heil showbiz and gossip desks to have read Orwell.'
- 2019, Jennifer S. Chesler, David C. McLean, The Philosophy of Extremism, volume III, page 40:
- Though the clinic alleges that they are devoted to "service to the community", this little cockwomble allowed his bruised arrogance to bother a woman infinitely superior to him just because she was smarter and better than he.
References
- “cockwomble”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Nicholson, Tom (2018 August 30) “There Is A Crisis In British Swearing”, in Esquire[2]