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Insults & Curses


Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou":

 folly-fallen
 bat-fowling
 fat-kidneyed
 full-gorged
 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

From: mal6315@cs.rit.edu (Matthew A Lecher)

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