Shakesperean Insults
A Handy Template

To make your own Shakespearean insult, combine one word from each of the three columns below, and preface it with "Thou":  "Thou gleeking, beef-brained barnacle",  "Thou froward, common-kissing baggage" or
"Thou churlish, onion-eyed joithead"
 

 
artlessbase-courtapple-john
bawdy bat-fowlingbaggage
beslubbering beef-wittedbarnacle
bootless beetle-headedbladder
churlish boil-brainedboar-pig
cockered clapper-clawedbugbear
clouted clay-brainedbum-bailey
craven common-kissingcanker-blossom
currish crook-patedclack-dish
dankish dismal-dreamingclotpole
dissembling dizzy-eyedcoxcomb
droning dog-heartedcodpiece
errant dread-bolteddeath-token
fawning earth-vexingdewberry
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-gripping 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-natured maggot-pie
puking knotty-pated malt-worm
puny milk-livered mammet
qualling motley-minded measel
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
surley rump-fed puttock
tottering shard-borne pumpion
unmuzzled sheep-baiting ratsbane
vain spur-galled scut
venomed swag-bellied skainsmate
villanous tardy-gaited strumpet
warped tickle-brained varlet
wayward toad-spotted vassal
weedy urchin-snouted whey-face
yeasty weather-bitten wagtail


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