How to insult with style…

William Shakespeare was a bugger afterall!!

As history goes no-one could insult with such prolific superlatives as he could…

And since I feel that this art form of insulting has almost become lost on us I am going to share with you a handy little guide on how to insult with great prowess!!

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

Column 1	     Column 2            Column 3 

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

artless             base-court          apple-john 

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      varlot 

wayward             toad-spotted        vassal 

weedy               unchin-snouted      whey-face 

yeasty              weather-bitten      wagtail

Go On!! I am sure you know at least one person you can test this on…

B