The Shakespearean Insult Kit

      By Jerry Maguire, english teacher at Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana.

      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
      bawdy
      beslubbering
      bootless
      churlish
      cockered
      clouted
      craven
      currish
      dankish
      dissembling
      droning
      errant
      fawning
      fobbing
      froward
      frothy
      gleeking
      goatish
      gorbellied
      impertinent
      infectious
      jarring
      loggerheaded
      lumpish
      mammering
      mangled
      mewling
      paunchy
      pribbling
      puking
      puny
      qualling
      rank
      reeky
      roguish
      ruttish
      saucy
      spleeny
      spongy
      surly
      tottering
      unmuzzled
      vain
      venomed
      villainous
      warped
      wayward
      weedy
      yeasty
      base-court
      bat-fowling
      beef-witted
      beetle-headed
      boil-brained
      clapper-clawed
      clay-brained
      common-kissing
      crook-pated
      dismal-dreaming
      dizzy-eyed
      doghearted
      dread-bolted
      earth-vexing
      elf-skinned
      fat-kidneyed
      fen-sucked
      flap-mouthed
      fly-bitten
      folly-fallen
      fool-born
      full-gorged
      guts-griping
      half-faced
      hasty-witted
      hedge-born
      hell-hated
      idle-headed
      ill-breeding
      ill-nurtured
      knotty-pated
      milk-livered
      motley-minded
      onion-eyed
      plume-plucked
      pottle-deep
      pox-marked
      reeling-ripe
      rough-hewn
      rude-growing
      rump-fed
      shard-borne
      sheep-biting
      spur-galled
      swag-bellied
      tardy-gaited
      tickle-brained
      toad-spotted
      unchin -snouted
      weather-bitten
      apple-john
      baggage
      barnacle
      bladder
      boar-pig
      bugbear
      bum-bailey
      canker-blossom
      clack-dish
      clotpole
      coxcomb
      codpiece
      death-token
      dewberry
      flap-dragon
      flax-wench
      flirt-gill
      foot-licker
      fustilarian
      giglet
      gudgeon
      haggard
      harpy
      hedge-pig
      horn-beast
      hugger-mugger
      joithead
      lewdster
      lout
      maggot-pie
      malt-worm
      mammet
      measle
      minnow
      miscreant
      moldwarp
      mumble-news
      nut-hook
      pigeon-egg
      pignut
      puttock
      pumpion
      ratsbane
      scut
      skainsmate
      strumpet
      varlet
      vassal
      whey-face
      wagtail

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