Numpty, dating from the 18th century, was once voted Scotland’s favourite word CALLING someone a numpty is acceptable at work, an employment judge has ruled. The light-hearted jibe could not be ...

Scotland's favourite word, according to a poll by BT Openreach, is numpty. Derived from "numps", an obsolete word for a stupid person, rather than the more obvious numbnuts or numbskull, the term ...

Calling a colleague a “numpty” is not discrimination, a tribunal judge has ruled. The light-hearted insult, which usually means silly or foolish, does not have any “racial or disability connotations”, ...

My understandably bruised fellow councillor Gavin Barrie who, having just been voted out of all his committee positions by his SNP colleagues on the city council, last week tweeted about a ...

Calling a colleague a "numpty" is allowed as it is not discrimination, an employment judge has ruled. The word "numpty" dates back to 1733 and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a stupid ...