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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! |
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| apple-john baggage barnacle bladder boar-pig bugbear bum-bailey canker-blossom clack-dish clotpole coxcomb codpiece death-token dewberry flap-dragon flax-wench flirt-gill foot-licker fustilarian giglet gudgeon haggard harpy hedge-pig horn-beast hugger-mugger jolthead lewdster lout maggot-pie malt-worm mammet measle minnow miscreant moldwarp mumble-news nut-hook pigeon-egg pignut puttock pumpion ratsbane scut skainsmate strumpet varlto vassal whey-face wagtail |
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| artless bawdy beslubbering bootless churlish cokckered clouted craven currish dankish dissembling droning errant fawning fobbing froward frothy gleeking goatish gorebellied impertinent infectious jarring loggerheaded lumpish mammering mangled mewling paunchy pribbling puking puny quailing rank reeky rougish ruttish saucy speeny spongy surly tottering unmuzzled vain venomed villainous warped wayward weedy yeasty |
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| base-court bat-fowling beef-witted beetle-brained clapper-clawed clay-brained common-kissing crook-pated dismal-dreaming dizzy-eyed doghearted dread-bolted earth-vexing elf-skinned fat-kidneyed fen-sucked flap-mouthed fly-bitten folly-fallen fool-born full-gorged half-faced hasty-witted hedge-born hell-hated idle-headed ill-breeding ill-nurtured knotty-pated milk-livered motley-minded onion-eyed plume-plucked 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 |
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