[Newspoetry] Elizabethan Insult Kit (fwd)

[Paul Kotheimer]

> Create your own Shakespearean insults!  Liven your ability to trash others!

> Here is your free 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
> 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               urchin-snouted      whey-face
> yeasty              weather-bitten      wagtail
>

> User discretion advised. The management is not responsible for relationship
> problems arising from the use of this free tool.