|
        |
|
|
|
|
Elizabethan InsultsAccents Main Page Find yourself tempted to say that effin word too often? Modern language is rather uninventive when it comes to expletives, contenting itself with a paucity of four letter equivalents for the range of human distress. Elizabethans took a delight with language, weaving together terms to form stinging phrases of wit. As a faire workers, these equivalents are not only fun, but don't make parents with children glare at you. You could say fie or you could swear by God's teeth or wounds. As a tradesman, you might swear by your hammer or tongs, or any other object of untarnished purity. (Good Elizabethans would not, as a rule, swear by Odin's beard or similar heresy.) Should that eff-word be particularly required, the learned Elizabethan would employ the common verb swive. To create your own curses, memorize some choice terms from the list below, two adjectives and a noun minimum per curse please. Out of my path, thou Spongy Rat-Faced Foot Licker! From: mal6315@cs.rit.edu (Matthew A Lecher) Subject: Here they are, the Shakespearian insults!!!!!! Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 16:03:35 GMT > Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced > 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 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 varlet > wayward toad-spotted vassal > weedy urchin-snouted whey-face > yeasty weather-bitten wagtail -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^| mal6315@cs.rit.edu |^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Accents Main Page |
|
|
Main Page
-Contacts- Designed and Maintained by SideNet (C) 1998
|
