• select a word or phrase from each list, and behold! the perfect Shakespearean insult, thou artless, earth-vexing miscreant! x
  • •list one: artless, bawdy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, currish, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant, fawning, fobbing, froward, frothy, gleeking, goatish, gorbellied, impertinent, infectious, jarring, loggerheaded, lumpish, mammering, mangled, mewling, paunchy, pribbling, puking, puny, qualling, rank, reeky, roguish, ruttish, saucy, spleeny, spongy, surly, tottering, unmuzzled, vain, venomed, villainous, warped, wayward, weedy, yeasty
  • •list two: base-court, bat-fowling, beef-witted, beetle-headed, boil-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, guts-griping, 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
  • •list three: 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, joithead, lewdster, lout, maggot-pie, malt-worm, mammet, measle, minnow, miscreant, moldwarp, mumble-news, nut-hook, pigeon-egg, pignut, puttock, pumpion, ratsbane, scut, skainsmate, strumpet, varlot, vassal, whey-face, wagtail
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