artless
bawdy
beslubbering
bootless
churlish
cockered
clouted
craven
currish
dankish
dissembling
droning
errant
fobbing
froward
frothy
gleeking
goatish
impertinent
infectious
jarring
loggerheaded
lumpish
mammering
mangled
paunchy
pribbling
puking
puny
qualling
reeky
rank
roguish
ruttish
saucy
spleeny
spongy
surly
tottering
unmuzzled
vain
venomed
villainous
warped
wayward
weedy
yeasty
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Shakespearean Insult Kit
To construct a Shakespearean insult, combine one word from each of the three columns below, and preface it with "Thou":
base-court
bat-fowling
beef-witted
beetle-headed
boil-brained
claper-clawed
clay-brained
common-kissing
crook-pated
dismal-dreaming
dizzy-eyed
doghearted
dread-bolted
elf-skinned
fat-kidneyed
fen-sucked
flap-mouthed
fly-bitten
fool-born
full-gorged
guts-griping
half-faced
hasty-witted
hedge-born
hell-hated
ill-breeding
ill-natured
knotty-pated
milk-livered
motley-minded
plume-plucked
onion-eyed
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
flap-dragon
flax-wench
flirt-gill
foot-licker
fustilarian
gudgeion
haggard
harpy
hedge-pig
horn-beast
hugger-mugger
joithead
lout
maggot-pie
malt-worm
mammet
measle
miscreant
minnow
moldwarp
mumble-news
nut-hook
pigeon-egg
pignut
putock
pumpion
ratsbane
scut
skainsmate
strumpet
varlet
vassal
whey-face
wagtail
Thank you to Frances Faber, who informed me that "CREATE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS" was written by Jerry Maguire, who teaches English at Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana.

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