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Shakespearian insults, anyone?

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Meanoldmummy · 18/01/2006 13:13

I'll start:

"Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog"!

"eater of broken meats"

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WigWamBam · 18/01/2006 13:17

"Much more of your conversation would infect my brain" - Coriolanus

"Put thy face between his sheets and do the office of warming pan" - Henry V

Meanoldmummy · 18/01/2006 13:34

ROFL!!

"Why strew'st thou sugar on this bottled spider?"

"cream-faced loon"

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gossifer · 18/01/2006 13:35

"put money in thy purse" othello

Turquoise · 18/01/2006 13:38

Not quite insults, but I love:
"snapper-up of unconsidered trifles" (Winter's Tale)
and
"Dost think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth NIGht)

WigWamBam · 18/01/2006 13:38

"Bless me, what fry of fornication is at the door?" - Henry VIII

Meanoldmummy · 18/01/2006 13:40

"poisonous bunch-backed toad"

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MarsOnLife · 18/01/2006 13:48

"I do bite my thumb sir"

MarsOnLife · 18/01/2006 13:51

"you ratcatcher"

Blackduck · 18/01/2006 13:53

Men from children nothing differ.

monkeytrousers · 20/01/2006 21:34

Everything between Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado

notasheep · 20/01/2006 21:39

dd was named after a Character in A Winters Tale NOT Harry Potter.

Can that be a Shakespeare insult too?

roosmum · 20/01/2006 21:41

"thou shag hairdst villain"
"what, you egg"

macbeth - dh's fave sh. insult

chipmonkey · 20/01/2006 22:01

"Silence thee or I'll knock thee o'er the mazzard!"

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