CREATE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS

by Jerry Maguire, who teaches English at Center Grove High School in
Greenwood, IN.

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       varlot
 wayward          toad-spotted         vassal
 weedy            unchin-snouted       whey-face
 yeasty           weather-bitten       wagtail