Shakespeare Insult Kit
If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.
Taken from: Hamlet
Come, you are a tedious fool. To the purpose.
Taken from: Measure for Measure
O teach me how I should forget to think.
Taken from: Romeo and Juliet
O, [thou art] as tedious as a tired horse, a railing wife, Worse than a smoky house.
Taken from: Henry IV, part I
Away, you bottle-ale rascal, you filthy bung, away!
Taken from: Henry IV, part 2
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 varlot wayward toad-spotted vassal weedy unchin-snouted whey-face yeasty weather-bitten wagtail
My additions:
cullionly whoreson knave
fusty malmsey-nosed blind-worm
caluminous rampallian popinjay
wimpled lily-livered scullian
burly-boned scurvy-valiant jolt-head
misbegotten brazen-faced malcontent
odiferous unwash'd devil-monk
poisonous bunch-back'd toad
fishified leaden-footed rascal
Wart-necked muddy-mettled Basket-Cockle
pigeon-liver'd
scale-sided
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