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A Shakespearean Insult Kit
If you want to insult someone or use Shakespearean insults in your work, go no further
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Next time that you are at a loss for a good insult, use this handy table to construct a Shakespearean insult. Combine one word from each of the three columns below, and preface it with the word "Thou":

Example:

Thou artless claybrained footlicker.

Use all the permutations and combinations for an endless stream of insults.


|___Column_1___|____Columm_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 | 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 | unchin-snouted | whey-face |

| yeasty | weather-bitten | wagtail |



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