[JPL] When Insults Had Class

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Sat Jul 12 00:01:57 EDT 2008


  

Shakespearian Insult Kit    

Next time that you are at a loss for a good insult, use  this  handy table to 
construct a Shakespearean insult. Combine  one word from each of the three 
columns below, and preface  it  with the word "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      
lumpish      
mammering       
hedge-born     
hugger-mugger    
mangled     
hell-hated     
joithead      
mewling     
idle-headed     
lewdster      
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      
paunchy     
ill-breeding      
paunchy      
villainous      
tardy-gaited    |     
strumpet      
warped        
tickle-brained      
varlet      
wayward       
toad-spotted            
vassal      
weedy     
unchin-snouted    
whey-face      
yeasty     
weather-bitten    
wagtail   

Joe Podorsek
Detroit






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