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":
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Column 2
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Column 3
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artless
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base-court
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apple-john
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bawdy
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bat-fowling
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baggage
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beslubbering
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beef-witted
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barnacle
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bootless
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beetle-headed
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bladder
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churlish
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boil-brained
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boar-pig
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cockered
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clapper-clawed
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bugbear
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clouted
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clay-brained
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bum-bailey
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craven
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common-kissing
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canker-blossom
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currish
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crook-pated
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clack-dish
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dankish
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dismal-dreaming
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clotpole
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dissembling
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dizzy-eyed
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coxcomb
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droning
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doghearted
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codpiece
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errant
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dread-bolted
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death-token
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fawning
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earth-vexing
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dewberry
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fobbing
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elf-skinned
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flap-dragon
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froward
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fat-kidneyed
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flax-wench
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frothy
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fen-sucked
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flirt-gill
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gleeking
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flap-mouthed
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foot-licker
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goatish
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fly-bitten
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fustilarian
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gorbellied
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folly-fallen
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giglet
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impertinent
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fool-born
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gudgeon
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infectious
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full-gorged
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haggard
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jarring
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guts-griping
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harpy
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loggerheaded
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half-faced
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hedge-pig
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lumpish
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hasty-witted
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horn-beast
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mammering
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hedge-born
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hugger-mugger
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mangled
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hell-hated
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joithead
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mewling
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idle-headed
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lewdster
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paunchy
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ill-breeding
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lout
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pribbling
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ill-nurtured
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maggot-pie
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puking
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knotty-pated
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malt-worm
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puny
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milk-livered
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mammet
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qualling
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motley-minded
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measle
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rank
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onion-eyed
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minnow
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reeky
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plume-plucked
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miscreant
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roguish
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pottle-deep
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moldwarp
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ruttish
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pox-marked
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mumble-news
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saucy
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reeling-ripe
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nut-hook
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spleeny
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rough-hewn
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pigeon-egg
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spongy
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rude-growing
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pignut
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surly
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rump-fed
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puttock
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tottering
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shard-borne
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pumpion
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unmuzzled
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sheep-biting
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ratsbane
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vain
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spur-galled
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scut
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venomed
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swag-bellied
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skainsmate
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villainous
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tardy-gaited
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strumpet
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warped
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tickle-brained
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varlet
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wayward
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toad-spotted
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vassal
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weedy
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unchin-snouted
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whey-face
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yeasty
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weather-bitten
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wagtail
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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!
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