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":
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Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
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artless |
base-court |
apple-john |
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bawdy |
bat-fowling |
baggage |
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beslubbering |
beef-witted |
barnacle |
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bootless |
beetle-headed |
bladder |
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churlish |
boil-brained |
boar-pig |
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cockered |
clapper-clawed |
bugbear |
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clouted |
clay-brained |
bum-bailey |
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craven |
common-kissing |
canker-blossom |
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currish |
crook-pated |
clack-dish |
|
dankish |
dismal-dreaming |
clotpole |
|
dissembling |
dizzy-eyed |
coxcomb |
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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 |
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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 |
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lumpish |
hasty-witted |
horn-beast |
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mammering |
hedge-born |
hugger-mugger |
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mangled |
hell-hated |
jolthead |
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mewling |
idle-headed |
lewdster |
|
paunchy |
ill-breeding |
lout |
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pribbling |
ill-nurtured |
maggot-pie |
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puking |
knotty-pated |
malt-worm |
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puny |
milk-livered |
mammet |
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quailing |
motley-minded |
measle |
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rank |
onion-eyed |
minnow |
|
reeky |
plume-plucked |
miscreant |
|
roguish |
pottle-deep |
moldwarp |
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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 |
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villainous |
tardy-gaited |
strumpet |
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warped |
tickle-brained |
varlet |
|
wayward |
toad-spotted |
vassal |
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weedy |
urchin-snouted |
whey-face |
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yeasty |
weather-bitten |
wagtail |