How to Insult Like Shakespeare

This is a useful post for variety of insults. It's more interesting than
"You are a(n) " + [some usual, boring insulting words]

"You are a dork" ---> lameeeeeee

You can be creative in combining words to the point that the person being insulted won't get what you mean until much later LOL. Plus, you may look soooo intelligent to know words from Elizabethan era!

Remember this was a time when the average person did not read, and other forms of entertainment were not readily available, but good conversation acted as a substitute.

Here it goes :
Just say "Thou art a(n)" + [choose one word from each column]
Example : "Thou art a churlish, dismal-dreaming fustilarian."
COOL, huh?

Try combining more words from column 1 and column 2 for more interesting insult :
"Thou art an artless, crook-pated, fawning, mewling, elf-skinned puttock."



FEEL FREE !!

1	2	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	Clot-pole
Dissembling	Dizzy-eyed	Coxcomb
Droning	Dog-hearted	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	Huggermugger
Mangled	Hell-hated	Jolt-head
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	Mold-warp
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	Rats-bane
Vain	Spur-galled	Scut
Venomed	Swag-bellied	Skains-mate
Villainous	Tardy-gaited	Strumpet
Warped	Tickle-brained	Varlot
Wayward	Toad-spotted	Vassal
Weedy	Unchin-snouted	Whey-face
Yeasty	Weather-bitten	Wagtail

Vocabulary : Similar Words, Different Meanings

There are similar words in English having different meanings :

Homonyms
Homonyms are words that have the same spellings and the same pronunciation but different meanings.
Please read the previous post I've published for example.
It's a poem using tons of homonyms. Read the poem to find out more.

To understand the correct meaning of a homonym , we need to look at the context in which it appears - that is, the words in the sentence or the surrounding sentences.

The prince held a ball. All the lords and ladies attended it.
The prince held a ball. It was smooth and shiny.

Homographs
Homographs are words that have the same spellings but have different meanings and are pronounced differently.
Take a look at the examples below :

Look at him tear up the pages of the book!
She saw a tear roll down the old man's cheek.

Shall I bring present for Jo?
Mr. Tan will present the prize for the winner.

Let's conduct the experiment tomorrow.
Lucas was given a prize for his good conduct.

Homophones
Homophones are words that sound alike but have different spellings and have different meanings.

"Mine is a long and sad tale, " said the Mouse, turning to Alice, sighing.
"'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?'"
(Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

I found a funny story cleverly told by Mrs. E. T. Corbett that was widely reprinted under various titles, and often without attribution.
A prolific writer of poems and essays for children and adults, Elizabeth T. Corbett is best remembered today for her nonsense poem "Three Wise Old Women" (reprinted by Dutton Juvenile in 2004). Let's take a look at it :

A Misspelled Tail
by Elizabeth T. Corbett

A little buoy said: "Mother, deer,
May I go out too play?
The son is bright, the heir is clear;
Owe, mother, don't say neigh!"

"Go fourth, my sun," the mother said.
The ant said, "Take ewer slay,
Your gneiss knew sled awl painted read,
But dew not lose your weigh."

"Ah, know," he cried, and sought the street
With hart sew full of glee--
The weather changed--and snow and sleet
And reign, fell steadily.

Threw snowdrifts grate, threw watery pool,
He flue with mite and mane--
Said he, "Though I wood walk by rule,
I am not rite, 't is plane."

"I'd like to meat sum kindly sole,
For hear gnu dangers weight,
And yonder stairs a treacherous whole--
Two sloe has been my gate.

"A peace of bred, a nice hot stake,
I'd chews if I were home,
This crewel fete my hart will brake,
Eye love knot thus to roam.

"I'm week and pail, I've mist my rode,"
But here a carte came past,
He and his sled were safely toad
Back two his home at last.

Funny, isn't it?
I hope this post would be helpful. Thank's for reading ! :)