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Shakespearean Insults - ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS

ROCK

Prating mountebank cuckgnat hind
curtal dog drunken slave backfriend
shoulder clapper Lapland sorcerer
devil devil’s dam fiend
doting wizard dissembling harlot peevish officer
unhappy strumpet mere anatomy mountebank
threadbare juggler fortuneteller fat friend
belly rascal dissentious rogue
quartered slave fragment shame of Rome
base slave fusty plebeian debile wretch
hereditary hangman old crab-tree horse-drench
kitchen malkin vengeance proud time-pleaser
flatterer foe to nobleness Triton of the minnows
old goat rotten thing viperous traitor
general lout common cry of curs bastards
daw dastard noble carbonado
decayed dotant varlet foreign receant
boy of tears    

PAPER

Counterfeit module double meaning propheiser
past-saving slave botcher’s apprentice shrieve’s fool
dumb innocent foolish idle boy dangerous and lascivious boy
toad damnable both-sides rogue flinty Tartar snipt-taffeta fellow
unbaked and doughy youth red-tailed bumble-bee carbonadoed face
hideous object common gamester perfidious slave
equivocal companion common customer wrangling queen
common liar saucy eunuch amorous surfeiter
monstrous malefacter strange serpent ribaudred nag
you kite Jack boggler
old ruffian triple- turn’d whore witch
vile-lady old dog mechanic slave
odd worm whoreson devil mortal wretch
venomous fool unworthy brother peasant
envious emulator monster nature’s natural
cutter-off of nature’s wit cur mannish coward
clownish fool    

SCISSORS

You quintessence of dust rogue and peasant slave dull and muddy-mottled rascal
pigeon-liver whore guilty creature breeder of sinners
robustious periwigpated fellow groundling passion’s slave
galled jade croaking raven peacock
bosom black as death wretched rash
intruding fool mildewed ear king of shreds & patches
tardy son sweet wag Diana’s forester
minion of the moon Monsieur Remorse Sir John Sack and Sugar
madcap thou latter spring all-hallown summer
true-bred coward fat rogue slovenly unhandsome corse
popinjay forgetful man thorn
canker sword-and-buckler prince wasp-stung


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