The Shakespearean Insult Kit
To construct a Shakespearean insult, combine one word from each of the
three columns below, and preface it with "Thou":
Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
artless |
base-court |
apple-john |
bawdy |
bat-fowling |
baggage |
beslubbering |
beef-witted |
barnacle |
bootless |
beetle-headed |
bladder |
churlish |
boil-brained |
boar-pig |
cockered |
clapper-clawed |
bugbear |
clouted |
clay-brained |
bum-bailey |
craven |
common-kissing |
canker-blossom |
currish |
crook-pated |
clack-dish |
dankish |
dismal-dreaming |
clotpole |
dissembling |
dizzy-eyed |
coxcomb |
droning |
doghearted |
codpiece |
errant |
dread-bolted |
death-token |
fawning |
earth-vexing |
dewberry |
fobbing |
elf-skinned |
flap-dragon |
froward |
fat-kidneyed |
flax-wench |
frothy |
fen-sucked |
flirt-gill |
gleeking |
flap-mouthed |
foot-licker |
goatish |
fly-bitten |
fustilarian |
gorbellied |
folly-fallen |
giglet |
impertinent |
fool-born |
gudgeon |
infectious |
full-gorged |
haggard |
jarring |
guts-griping |
harpy |
loggerheaded |
half-faced |
hedge-pig |
lumpish |
hasty-witted |
horn-beast |
mammering |
hedge-born |
hugger-mugger |
mangled |
hell-hated |
joithead |
mewling |
idle-headed |
lewdster |
paunchy |
ill-breeding |
lout |
pribbling |
ill-nurtured |
maggot-pie |
puking |
knotty-pated |
malt-worm |
puny |
milk-livered |
mammet |
qualling |
motley-minded |
measle |
rank |
onion-eyed |
minnow |
reeky |
plume-plucked |
miscreant |
roguish |
pottle-deep |
moldwarp |
ruttish |
pox-marked |
mumble-news |
saucy |
reeling-ripe |
nut-hook |
spleeny |
rough-hewn |
pigeon-egg |
spongy |
rude-growing |
pignut |
surly |
rump-fed |
puttock |
tottering |
shard-borne |
pumpion |
unmuzzled |
sheep-biting |
ratsbane |
vain |
spur-galled |
scut |
venomed |
swag-bellied |
skainsmate |
villainous |
tardy-gaited |
strumpet |
warped |
tickle-brained |
varlet |
wayward |
toad-spotted |
vassal |
weedy |
unchin-snouted |
whey-face |
yeasty |
weather-bitten |
wagtail |
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