Shakespearean Insults

Shakespearean Insults

Here are Shakespearean Insults, thou mammering hedge-born gudgeons.

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	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

Please use carefully, thou pribbling, clapper clawed harpy!

Insults from Shakespeare

Below are various insults from many plays written by Shakespeare. Your job is to try to figure out what each insult means and write your answer below the insult. Good luck!

The Two Gentlemen of Verona : Thou subtle, perjur'd, false, disloyal man!

As You Like It : Thou art like a toad; ugly and venemous.  

The Tempest : Thine forward voice, now, is to speak well of thine friend; thine backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.  

Measure For Measure :Thou art a flesh-monger, a fool and a coward.

 

All's Well That Ends Well : A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

 

Cymbeline : Thy tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile.

 

Henry IV Part 2 : You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!

 

All's Well That Ends Well : Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

 

The Winter's Tale: My wife's a hobby horse!

 

Troilus and Cressida : Thou art as loathsome as a toad.

 

Macbeth : Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-liver'd boy.

 

Henry IV Part 1 :Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!

 Henry IV Part 1 : Peace, ye fat guts!

 

Henry V : There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

 

Richard III : Thou poisonous bunch-back'd toad!

 

Richard III : Thou art unfit for any place but hell.

 

Hamlet : Thou are pigeon-liver'd and lack gall.

 

All's Well That Ends Well : Your virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese.

 

Henry V : Thine face is not worth sunburning.

 

As You Like It : Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage.

 

Henry IV Part : You are as a candle, the better burnt out.

 

Hamlet : If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.

 

Measure For Measure : Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.

 

All's Well That Ends Well : A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

   

All's Well That Ends Well : Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

  

Henry IV part 1 : Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!