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by Jerry Maguire, who teaches English at Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana.
Directions:
Combine one word from each of the three columns
below, preface with "Thou" and thus shalt thou have the perfect insult. Let thyself
go -- mix and match to find a barb worthy of the Bard
| 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 | jolthead |
| mewling | idle-headed | lewdster |
| paunchy | ill-breeding | lout |
| pribbling | ill-nurtured | maggot-pie |
| puking | knotty-pated | malt-worm |
| puny | milk-livered | mammet |
| quailing | 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 |
Do you have a particular favorite? Created with the above method or not... Send it to us for inclusion here!
| Submitted by: | Insult |
|---|---|
| Locar9@aol.com | Thou surly toad-spotted pumpion |
| Doug Lyon | A pox upon thee and thine family, you gorbellied urchin-snouted pigeon egg, who art no greater than the boil-brained malt-worm that bears your mothers name!! Ha, away from me you onion-eyed nave!! |
| Irsh13@aol.com | Thou art a bootless beatleheaded footlicker! |
| Debi Robbins | Thou impertinent, boil-brained fustilarian! |
| Stephanie DeLong | Thou paunchy ill-breeding maggot-pie! |
| Russell Ayers | Thou art a fawning fly-bitten foot-licker |
| AMbonehead | Thou Unmuzzled Fat Kidneyed Flax Wench! |
| Roslyn Mcginty | Thou gleeking, clapper-clawed hedge-pig! |
| Lisa E. | Thou mammering knotty-pated foot-licker |
| Rachel Wilson | Thou art a bawdy dizzy-eyed elf-skinned fat kidneyed dew berry flap-dragon |
| Steve | Thou art a cloning dizzy-eyed codpiece |
| Tom Hobbs | Thou art a malevolent breaker of wind! Thy face hath such charms as to stagger the charging beast! A pox on thee and thy maleficent issue! Thou art a disease in want of a tissue! If genes of thine were stirred into the pool, 'twould be the shallow end! |
| P.McCabe | Thou art a blibbering, swag-bellied scut! |
| M.C. Harder | Thou villainous, tickle-brained nuthook! |
| Brandon E. Potts | Thou art a beslubbering, fat-kidneyed maggot pie |
| Debbie "Giggles" Nelsen | Thou art a tottering, rude-growing wagtail! |
| Andria Arnold | crusty botch of nature |
| Dennis R. Doan | thou artles dizzy eyed barnecle |
| Tim Smith from Monty Python | Thou art a toffee-nosed malodorous pervert! |
| RidBoy | Thou art a Yeasty tickle-brained whey-face! |
| Matt Beck | Thou pribbling milk-livered moldwarp! |
| George Rolfe | Thou wayward son of a craven idle-headed foot-licker! |
| Monica Mitchell | Thou art a yeasty beef-witted moldwarp and, by the by, may thou be plauged with reeky, pox-marked barin and a droning, beetle-headed harpy fer ye wife! |
| Pam | Thou villianous rumfed maggot-pie! |
| Brenna Stewart | Thou art one sick puppy! |
| phyzics@mindspring.com | Thou art a lumpy natured, pasty visaged, pox ridden pasture-pie! |
| bfstew320@aol.com | Thou art a cobweb crotch! |
| Stomper Scott | Thou polititians art a bunch of loggerheaded, motley-minded miscreants! |
| Dopey3025@aol.com | Thou art a gorbellied, dread-bolted harpy! |
| qitelremel@yahoo.com | Avaunt, thou dissembling, swag-bellied coxcomb! |
| Galakml@aol.com | This man I see is a frothy, fat-kidneyed dewberry! |
| bladesm@eths.k12.il.us | Thy yeasty, weather-bitten strumpet! |
| Christ_has_risen_12@hotmail.com | Thou art a haughty, onion-eyed malt-worm! |
| kayla_nebel@yahoo.com | Thou bootless, lay-headed foot-licker! |
| spaniard10@hotmail.com | Thou goatish, clapper-clawed strumpet! |
| Rangerzep83@aol.com | Thou mewling, hasty-witted hornbeast! |
| SHEKINAHevansc@aol.com | Thou sottish, ill-nurtured nut-hook! |
| hrobinson@hrobi.wanadoo.co.uk | Thou artless, bat-fowling bugbear! |
| George Bennett | Thou elf-skinned, cockered, adewberry! |
| For more information email the Ring of Steel at rosteel@umich.edu |
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