Pondskipper

"I hope your nests rot."

"You're as bad as a pearlcatcher with not pearl!"

"I hope your charge gets destroyed" (obviously aimed at guardians)

"Get locked in the fortress of ends, you pile of useless scrap."

"Dear gods what on Sorineth are you doing"

"Oh pohips, that wasn't supposed to happen."

(@ a ice dragon) "I hope you melt, snowflake."

(@ a nature dragon) "Why dont you go catch a cold, twig."

(@ a light dragon) "Your aren't the brightest bulb, are you?"

(@ a plague dragon) "I hope you die of the common cold, you pathetic, vile excuse of a dragon."

(@ a arcane dragon) "May all of your Research get destroyed, you spacey wannabe."

(@ a fire dragon) "I hope you get doused."

(@ a water dragon) "Oh, I'm sorry. I only talk to dragons with deities. Tidelord? Oh yeah, I forgot about him (obviously being sarcastic).”

(@ a earth dragon) "Crumble, you flimsy piece of sandstone."

(@ a wind dragon) "I hope you break your wings, then you can get your ditzy head out of those damn clouds."

(@ a shadow dragon) "Your entire flight is basically a weak Shade wannabe and you are probably as bright as the rest of your clan."

(@ a lighting dragon) "you wouldn't even be an unpaid intern for stormcatcher, you're that useless."

"Hey, you have resting fae face."

"Don't be such a Pearlcatcher about it."

"That sound is more annoying than a coatl's language."

"Sure, I'll believe it when A snapper flies."

"You alchemical mistake of creation." (@ bogsneaks)

"Why don't you forget about yourself? You seem to be great at forgetting everything else!" (@ tundras)

"I hope that gem gets knocked out of you, Skydancer."

"Your kind ain't appreciated here, so watch yourself."

(And, when the insulter is extremely upset and this is aimed at a imp:)
"YOU WOULD MAKE A LOUSY EMPEROR, YOU SELF ENTITLED, DIETY-DAMNED LIZARD."

In canon Spirals are often made fun of and the Snakehead insult in Temper, Temper.

Your mother was a Mammertee and your father smells of decaying Greatshell!

Some of my nature dragons say: "Glory be to the Gladekeeper!"

They use it as like a surprised/shocked phrase or sometimes while just being pretentious

I'm actually writing some lore right now and decided that instead of the usual "heck," Lyndel says "ground." no idea why, I just feel it fits, even if she's an earth dragon.

“If you don’t let that thing down, I swear on the Eleven I’ll swipe you, you steaming pile of rot!” -a Nature dragon, maybe

I use Windsinger (or other dieties) as semi harsh words. As someone would say god or lord or jesus.

Ex: "Sweet Windsinger that was scary!"

Zekkyo does use a lot of Windsinger and Gladekeeper-related swears and phrases. After all... they are her flights of origin...

"Oh my Gladekeeper... a monster!!" "The Windsinger is adventuring to get away from you."

Kirameki also does use Light slang for a lot of things. Also, DEATHPACT slang, hence "deathling."

"You dull deathling..." "That's one shining amazing idea." "Yurusan, you sunspot."

My dragons say
You son of a snout-twister

I think one would need to be very careful about certain "curse expressions" such as

"[insert deity name here] take you!"

because they might just do that. :D

I think there are a lot of elements-based minor swears, based upon a dragon's flight. So a plague dragon might say, "oh light and lichen!" While an arcane dragon might say "magic and mud!"

For more vulgar swears, I think they involve swearing by the body parts of the deities and major enemies: e.g., Talona's talons, Wind's whiskers, Bringer's boils, Earth's ears. (Yes, I really like alliteration for curses.) I think over time, these would get shortened to things like "Wiker!" (wind's whiskers), "Broil!" (bringer's boils), etc.

Being accused of being a Wyrm is one of the gravest insults you could say to a dragon.

I'd imagine dragons from Plague would use carrion as an insult because of the whole survival thing. I could also see calling another dragon sickly or weak as very insulting for the same reason. Dragons seen as too friendly or naive could be told to go frolic in the Everbloom Gardens. Mirrors could call other dragons packless.

"Freaking Fangar!"

"What the Bearded Yeti are you doing?!"

Things I have had my dragons exclaim in lore:

"Oh my gods!"

"Oh, thank Plaguemom!" and "Thank the Eleven!"

"What the Shade?!"

"You son-of-a-Serthis!"

I think beast clan curses would work for all the flights, not just for certain flights in particular since the beast clans are hated by all dragons.

That rat-king stole my dinner! (In reference to the waterway boss. Meaning their a thief with more negative context)

What a load of river muck! (I forgot its name, but one of the monsters in the water way are named like.. river muck or living slime I don’t remember.)

You smell worse than a long neck! (Since long necks are found in the arena, and they spend their days battling to the death, they probably start to smell worse and worse as time passes.)

What a rude little ragepuff! (Meaning someone is rude, angry and annoying)

You fly worse than a renegade aviar!(renegade aviar are unable to fly, so this insult would work best on snapper dragons)

You are shorter than a ringlet amphithere! (small enough for a fae dragon to hold. Works best on short dragons and hatchlings!)

slag and dross are curses for fire dragons because it's a waste product from smithing.
"You're all smoke and no embers!" is also an insult

"May your [insert loved one] rise from the ground/grave!" would probably be offensive among imperials, in reference to emporers. Really, any reference to corpse amalgamates involving someone could go.

Flight oriented insults for dragons with prejudice against other flights:

Ice:
Frost-bitten freaks
Cold hearted

Fire:
Hot-headed

Plague:
Disease-ridden

Nature:
tree huggers



and that's all I can think of for now.

I'd kind of think dragons would have warrior cats style curses/insults, examples:
"You longneck brain!"
"Raptorik dung"
"[insert dragon name here] is a shadow/raptorik/other beastclan heart! [insert more beration here]"

Not seeing enough Shadow-themed ones, so:
"Rotting mushrooms!"
"You're as original as a Nocturne!"
"You tell knock-knock jokes!" -implying that they're bad at trickery and not funny
"Boring" is probably a really bad thing to call someone

My boy Nocturne has the mouth of a sailor, but obviously I can't allow him to speak like that in such a dignified place. So he has to come up with his own insults.

He calls Faes "Tree-huggers" and plant eating dragons "flower-munchers", Plague dragons as "rotters" and Earth dragons/Snappers as "stompers". He'll often throw in some other random things here and there.

My first thought was of Dragonriders of Pern sayings. I really like "by the first egg," but I sort of use these as jumping-off points to help me think of more FR-lore-based terms (too tired to think of any atm SOB)

Somehow I can see Arcane dragons responding to something shocking by saying “Sweet stars and quasars!”

I’d also imagine water dragons take great offense to being told they smell anything like washed up dead fishes, because that is a very unpleasant smell.

"You son of a forgotten progen!"

I imagine my dragons would say "holy tidelord in a teacup," and other stuff that sounds like it's meant to be rude but is really just amusing.

I usually swap out words and replace them with FR deities or items like ''Oh Stormcatcher forbid I do that'' or ''Shade knows where he ran off to this time''

I just assumed that there might be flight related curses like "oh my gods, you're such a bubble brains!!" or "You stupid grasshead!!" or "Hey rockface!!"

No offense to any flights, its just the insults I could think of off the top of my head, DON'T ACTUALLY USE THEM AGAINST PEOPLE OF OTHER FLIGHTS!!

Region/element specific insults and saying are cool and all but I like to hit dragons where it really hurts. BREED specific insults.

"Bird brain!" Insult to a Skydancer because they birb


“Directionless!” -Likely an insult to guardians without a charge.


“Cracked!” -An insult to Pearlcatchers to make them think there is something wrong with them (and therefore something wrong with their pearl, or vice versa)


“Nubnail!” Wildclaws can be insecure about their tow tallon lengths, right?

my personal favorite is

oh my crackle

im sorry to any crackle fans

This is why Tidelord is missing

My Wildclaw narrator has referenced the Gladekeeper several times - he's a Nature dragon in a Plague lair, what're you gonna do?

"Gladekeeper preserve me."
"Thank the Gladekeeper for opposable thumbs."
"By the Gladekeeper's roots!"
"And maybe I'll try walking a tightrope above the Wyrmwound while I'm at it."

Also, this:
"Pluck my feathers and call me a lizard."

Definitely out of astonishment and not anger, but still.

"Spacedad didn't end the world twice for this"

Aside from the beautiful G&G insults (“Pine needles!”), I use a lot of “Fried bumbles” and swearing to the gods. Examples...

“What in the name of fried bumbles is he even talking about?”

“AAAAAAHHHHH YOU CRAZED LUNATIC, STOP IN THE NAME OF THE WINDSINGER!!!”

*Both of these are examples from Alchemy, who, despite being one of the sweetest, is quite possibly the most “vulgar” character in my Pinkerlocke

My dragons say “what/who in the Wyrmwound are you?”

“Oh, noggle!”

“Young man, we do not use that kind of language in this lair!”

“Oh, nogglet!”

hecc a deck, i'll hit you with my necc!! - Lynch while trying to train fodder and some enemy kills her fodder child for the fifth time this week

Maybe dragons use insults like "bad egg!" or "you're a rotten egg!"
And if they're feeling particularly mean, "I wish your egg had rotted away!"

"Even Roundsey's more reliable than you!"

I'll probably edit this or post again if I think of anything else I need sleep