Shakespearean Insults
Need a strong malediction to hurl at your English teacher or others? Let Shakespeare help: Combine one word from each of the three columns and add "Thou" to the beginning. Let yourself go; mix and match to find that perfect barb from the Bard! THOU . . .
| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| bawdy | bunch-backed | canker-blossom |
| brazen | clay-brained | clotpole |
| churlish | dog-hearted | crutch |
| distempered | empty-hearted | cutpurse |
| fitful | evil-eyed | dogfish |
| gnarling | eye-offending | egg-shell |
| greasy | fat-kidneyed | gull-catcher |
| grizzled | heavy-headed | hempseed |
| haughty horn-mad | horn-mad | hedge-pig |
| hideous | ill-breeding | jack-a-nape |
| jaded | ill-composed | malignancy |
| knavish | ill-nurtured | malkin |
| lewd | iron-witted | malt-worm |
| peevish | lean-witted | manikin |
| pernicious | lily-livered | minimus |
| prating | mad-bread | miscreant |
| purpled | motley-minded | moldwarp |
| queasy | muddy-mettled | nut-hook |
| rank | onion-eyed | pantaloon |
| reeky | pale-hearted | rabbit-suckel |
| roynish | paper-faced | rampallion |
| sottish | pinch-spotted | remnant |
| saucy | raw-boned | rudesby |
| unmuzzled | rug-headed | ruffian |
| vacant | rump-fed | scantling |
| waggish | shag-eared | scullion |
| wanton | shrill-gorged | snipe |
| wenching | sour-faced | waterfly |
| whoreson | weak-hinged | whipster |
| yeasty | white-livered | younker |
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