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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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