Curses!

(Elizabethan Insults)

 

Do you often find yourself encumbered by the lack of creativity and paucity of vocabulary in present day profanity? The Elizabethan equivalents are much more fun and don't make parents with children glare at you in restaurants. Don't stop at saying "fie" or swearing by God's teeth or wounds; express thyself!

Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou":

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

rude-growing

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

urchin-snouted

whey-face

yeasty

weather-bitten

wagtail