Insults

Want to expand your Star Wars insults repertoire beyond "laser brain" and "nerf herder"? We got you. See also Swears and Idioms. Sometimes, Star Wars authors have used real-world slurs as insults. We won't be documenting those here.

This article is a list. It will always need expanding!

People (not species-specific)

Insult	Example	Culture(s) / Language(s)
Bantha brain	"That bantha-brain—did he think Jabba wouldn't notice?"
Bantha fodder	"Listen to me, bantha fodder,” Lando said. “I blew up a Death Star before you were born."
Bantha herder	(Spoilers for The Glass Abyss) Mace Windu, about assassins pursuing him: "Try this, bantha herder."
Budzo	"Now put your hands up, budzos."
Druk bucket	(Spoilers for The High Republic Adventures (2023) #5) "I'm heading to my lab to salvage what eggs I have left before that druk bucket gets us all blown up!"
Drukhead	"Does this answer your question, drukhead?"
Drydak	"No magic. No dark side. Just protection against stupid drydaks like you."
Ferijian ape	"Not unless these two Ferijian apes let go of me."
Kriffer	"Took you kriffers long enough to show up, mind."
Laserbrain	Leia Organa, to Han Solo: "I don't know where you get your delusions, laserbrain."
Moof-milker	Han Solo: "Some moof-milker put a compressor on the ignition line."
Mox-wrangler	"And I suppose this towering mox-wrangler is your Master?"
Nerf-herder	Leia Organa, to Han Solo: "Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, nerf-herder!" A human, to (Spoilers for The Glass Abyss) Mace Windu: "Whattya want, nerf herder?"	Possibly human?
Nerf spore	"Lakano Nash, you condescending nerf spore."
Scarf-pod snorfler	"Listen, you scarf-pod snorflers, we gotta find that weird little Jedi and the girl!"
Scrag	"Just wanted to let you scrags know Takodana is mine now!"
Scumslug	"You're a long way from the temple, scumslug."
Sithspit	"Obi-Wan, I don't care what you say, I'm not going to abandon Bant'ena to that Sithspit Durd."
Sneet-sniffer	(Spoilers for Defy the Storm) "Avon was willing to bet she'd even passed off the design as her own. What a sneet-sniffer."
Tuft-sucker	"Listen, you ungrateful tuft-sucker—"	Clone troopers?
Varactyl vomit	"This is why everyone thinks you're varactyl vomit!"
Yato-fist	"Well, find out, you snivelling yato-fist!"
Zonkhead	(Spoilers for Beware the Nameless) "I cannot set up my satellite lab if you zonkheads can't handle one shipment without me."	Means "stupid"

Species-specific

Insult	Example	Subject is a...	Culture(s) / Language(s)
Aiwha-bait	"So Taun We's still going strong, too, the old aiwha bait."	Kaminoan	Clone troopers and their trainers, particularly the Mandalorian ones
Big walking carpet	Leia Organa, about Chewbacca: "Would somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?"	Wookiee
Flea-bitten furball	C-3PO, to Chewbacca: "You flea-bitten furball!"	Wookiee
Fuzzball	Han Solo, to Chewbacca: "Laugh it up, fuzzball."	Wookiee
Glob of grease	C-3PO, to R2-D2: "Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease!"	Droid
Mange-farmer	"Help? You? You stupid mange-farmer, the entire plant could have gone up!"	Lepi
Scrap pile	C-3PO, to R2-D2: "You'll be malfunctioning within a day, you nearsighted scrap pile."	Droid
Screwdriver	C-3PO to R2-D2: "Like you know anything about agriculture, you oversize screwdriver."	Droid
Slime pod	"So listen up, slime pod... you wanna live, you gotta talk."	Hutt

Locations

Insult	Example	Culture(s) / Language(s)
Backrocket	"There was very little difference between running a galactic-scale government and running a small, one-industry town on some backrocket world so far out in the Reach that they had to pipe in starlight."	Comparable to the English expression "backwater" to mean isolated.
Ball of bantha sweat	"You should get down on your knees and thank us each and every time we land on this ball of bantha sweat you call a planet!"
Cruk-hole	"I'm your best bet for getting off this cruk-hole in one piece."

Other

Insult	Example	Subject is a...	Culture(s) / Language(s)
Bucket of bolts	"That bucket of bolts?"	Thing (Ship)