Elizabethan Insults
If, perchance, thou hast need for a goodly insult, a most wondrous malediction may be arrived at by the simple combination of one word from each of the three columns below, preceded by "Thou."
artless |
base-court |
apple-john |
bawdy |
bat-fowling |
baggage |
beslubbering |
beef-witted |
barnacle |
bootless |
beetle-headed |
bladder |
cockered |
clapper-clawed |
bum-bailey |
craven |
common-kissing |
canker-blossom |
dankish |
dizzy-eyed |
coxcomb |
droning |
doghearted |
codpiece |
errant |
dread-bolted |
death-token |
fawning |
earth-vexing |
dewberry |
forward |
fat-kidneyed |
flax-wench |
frothy |
fen-sucked |
flirt-gill |
gleeking |
flap-mouthed |
foot-licker |
gorbellied |
folly-fallen |
giglot |
infectious |
full-gorged |
haggard |
loggerheaded |
half-faced |
hedge-pig |
mammering |
hedge-born |
hugger-mugger |
mewling |
idle-headed |
lewdster |
paunchy |
ill-breeding |
lout |
pribbling |
ill-nurtured |
maggot-pie |
puny |
milk-livered |
mammet |
rank |
onion-eyed |
minnow |
roguish |
pottle-deep |
mold-warp |
saucy |
reeling-ripe |
nut-hook |
spleeny |
rough-hewn |
pigeon-egg |
spongy |
rude-growing |
pignut |
tottering |
shard-bone |
pumpion |
villainous |
tardy-gaited |
strumpet |
wayward |
toad-spotted |
vassal |
yeasty |
weather-bitten |
wagtail |
Should the application of any goodly combination of the above fail to dismay thy foe, explain the meaning of each word unto him in small words, that he may understand.
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