Shakespearean Insults (fwd)

Frances Bolton (PHI) fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Fri Aug 21 21:16:24 PDT 1998


sorry to send something so off-topic, but I know there are a couple of people who did things with literature in previous lives, and this might be useful for the next flame war.

Frances

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:58:11 -0400


>>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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