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can someone name me a website that has shakesperean insults with their difintions on the same page????

2007-02-08 10:40:07 · 2 answers · asked by Edd N 2 in Arts & Humanities Theater & Acting

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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her head and headstrong humor
He that knows better how to tame a shrew
Now let him speak : 'tis charity to show.

2007-02-08 10:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by Andrew Noselli 3 · 0 0

I got a page full of 'em. I got them in english class. Here are some:

artless
bawdy
beslubbering
bootless
brazen
churlish
cockered
clouted
craven
currish
dankish
dissembling
distempered
droning
errant
fawning
fitful
fobbing
froward
frothy
gleeking
gnarling
goatish
gorbellied
greasy
grizzled
haughty
hideous
impertinent
infectious
jaded
jarring
knavish
lewd
loggerheaded
lumpish
mammering
mangled
mewling
paunchy
peevish
pernicious
prating
pribbling
puking
puny
purpled
quailing
queasy
rank
reeky
roguish
roynish
ruttish
saucy
sottish
spleeny
spongy
surly
tottering
unmuzzled
vacant
vain
venomed
villainous
waggish
wanton
warped
wayward
weedy
wenching
whoreson
yeasty base-court
bat-fowling
beef-witted
beetle-headed
boil-brained
bunched-backed
clapper-clawed
clay-brained
common-kissing
crook-pated
dismal-dreaming
dizzy-eyed
dog-hearted
dread-bolted
earth-vexing
elf-skinned
empty-hearted
evil-eyed
eye-offending
fat-kidneyed
fen-sucked
flap-mouthed
fly-bitten
folly-fallen
fool-born
full-gorged
guts-griping
half-faced
hasty-witted
heavy-handed
hedge-born
hell-hated
horn-mad
idle-headed
ill-breeding
ill-composed
ill-nurtured
iron-witted
knotty-pated
lean-witted
lily-livered
mad-bread
milk-livered
motley-minded
muddy-mettled
onion-eyed
pale-hearted
paper-faced
pinch-spotted
plume-plucked
pottle-deep
pox-marked
raw-boned
reeling-ripe
rough-hewn
rude-growing
rug-headed
rump-fed
shag-eared
shard-borne
sheep-biting
shrill-gorged
spur-galled
sour-faced
swag-bellied
tardy-gaited
tickle-brained
toad-spotted
unchin-snouted
weak-hinged
weather-bitten
white-livered apple-john
baggage
barnacle
bladder
boar-pig
bugbear
bum-bailey
canker-blossom
clack-dish
clotpole
coxcomb
codpiece
crutch
cutpurse
death-token
dewberry
dogfish
egg-shell
flap-dragon
flax-wench
flirt-gill
foot-licker
fustilarian
giglet
gudgeon
gull-catcher
haggard
harpy
hedge-pig
hempseed
hedge-pig
horn-beast
hugger-mugger
jack-a-nape
jolthead
lewdster
lout
maggot-pie
malignancy
malkin
malt-worm
mammet
manikin
measle
minimus
minnow
miscreant
moldwarp
mumble-news
nut-hook
pantaloon
pigeon-egg
pignut
puttock
pumpion
rabbit-sucker
rampallion
ratsbane
remnant
rudesby
ruffian
scantling
scullion
scut
skainsmate
snipe
strumpet
varlot
vassal
waterfly
whey-face
whipster
wagtail
younker

2007-02-08 10:51:50 · answer #2 · answered by I 4 · 0 0

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