Elizabethan Insult Kit
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 Combine one word from each of the three columns below, preface with
 "Thou" and thus shalt thou have the perfect insult.     Let thyself
 go--mix and match to find a barb worthy of the Bard!
 
 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              jolthead
 mewling                 idle-headed             lewdster
 paunchy                 ill-breeding            lout
 pribbling               ill-nurtured            maggot-pie
 puking                  knotty-pated            malt-worm
 puny                    milk-livered            mammet
 quailing                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
 
 From: Nathan

Wil Stark, wstark04 (at) pobox _dot_com

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