Five hundred years ago, little in life moved more quickly than a trotting horse. With no media to fill the day, there was nothing but space for song and speech. Elizabethans took a delight with language, weaving together terms to form stinging phrases of wit. Shakespeare himself is thought to have invented (or first published) nearly 1,700 words. This was a period prior to the first English Dictionary (published 1604) where you might stitch together "ale" and "louse" to accuse your neighbor of being an "ale-louse" and no one could gainsay your usage. Research insults created by Shakespeare and post your results. Then go to the following site: www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_rule.html and create your own insults. Post your creation.
My wife is a hobby horse..... She sleeps with everyone
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DeleteMy wife's a hobby horse! She sleeps with everyone that gets in her way.......
ReplyDeleteYour virginity, your old virginity is like one of our French wither'd pears: it looks ill, it eats drily.
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"Infectious full-gorged miscreant" - Matt Burkhead
From : All Well That Ends Well
DeleteWhat do you think this means?
DeleteMiscreant is someone who breaks the law or behaves badly
Delete"I do desire we may be better strangers" this is not nice to say to a person and it means that he don't want to see the person again.
ReplyDeleteAs You Like It (3.2.248) where I got it
Delete"Reeky fat kidneyed hedge-pig" Caballero
ReplyDeleteA way of calling someone "fat" and "smelly"
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ReplyDeleteThy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.Meaning: That a sin is not an accident that you always have a choice.
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"Thou art a flesh-monger, a fool and a coward." Measure For Measure (nosweatshakespeare.com)
ReplyDelete"Vain hell-hated boar pig" it means you are a mean person.
(Karissa & Jessica)
"Thou art like a toad; ugly and venemous."
ReplyDeleteSaying someone ugly.
Shakespeare Insult 2 – As You Like It
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
ReplyDeleteCoriolanus (2.1.91)
I think it means the more you talk that they get a head ache .
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DeleteSpongy rude- growing pignut.
ReplyDeleteA most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality. Meaning your a liar a promise breaker and coward
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"Thou art as fat as butter" henry Iv part 1
ReplyDeleteWeedy boil brained pigeon egg....
ReplyDeleteGross and and dumb and has a small head
"My wife’s a hobby horse!"-this Means that he's wife is uh faithful .
ReplyDelete"Reeky Knotty Pated Foot Licker"- this means that's you Smell An Have lumps. An you like to lick Feet. - Sonia Zamudio
"Your breath first kindled the dead coals of war"......that means your breath smells. By Narendya Bailey
ReplyDeleteReeky Fly-bitten hedge-pig
ReplyDeleteIt means that someone smells and is very dirty
Delete"Spongy rude- growing pignut" it means that the pig is in a bad form. Francisco
ReplyDeleteGoatish clay-brained flirt gill ~ definition; goat looking stupid flirt
ReplyDelete- Valerie and heaven
"Mangled common-kissing bear-pig" Meaning: A Nast trashy kisser he's a a pig.
ReplyDeleteI had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
ReplyDeleteAnd with the other fling it at thy face.
3 Henry VI (5.1.51-2)
(Matthew & Marleene)
"Wipe thy ugly face" change you face expression.
ReplyDeleteDissembling harlot, thou art false in all!
ReplyDeleteThe Comedy of Errors (4.4.100)
Get thee gone
ReplyDeleteWhat Does this Mean? By Ethan and Nathaniel
DeleteMeans get away
DeleteThou Dankish. It Means that You are really Dirty.
ReplyDeleteBy Ethan Jacob Burton
And
Nathaniel Dominquez
Measure for measure - fool and a coward (4)
ReplyDeleteYour bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
ReplyDeleteTaken from: Hamlet
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This Insult means that you are telling lies, and spreading around rumors.
"Peace ye, fat guts" I think that this insult means that you are saying good buy while calling someone fat. Daniel kittinger,Anastacio fuerte
ReplyDeleteBootless beef-witted pignut. Calling someone poor, dumb and resembles a pig testicle
ReplyDeleteSaucy Swag-Bellied Scut
ReplyDeleteThou art a flesh -monger, a fool and a coward.
ReplyDeleteMeasure for Measure. Stephanie Cruz, Joshua Abbott.
Spongy dizzied eye maggot pie. Sneaky nosey person
ReplyDelete"Thou artless than a barnacale" is saying that someone is really boring or un creative. Daniel kittinger,Anastacio fuerte
ReplyDeleteThy art lumpish half-faced flap-dragon. It means that you have a lumpy face fat dragon.
ReplyDeleteStephanie Cruz, Joshua Abbott
Thou are A Wagtail! Meaning:Calling someone a Butt
ReplyDeleteYou spongy onion-eyed boar-pig.
ReplyDeleteThis means sponge eyes with tears uncastrated male.
(Matthew & Marleene)
Mark and Allan
ReplyDeleteYou are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
All's Well that Ends Well (2.3.262)
I think this means he doesn't want to say any thing else cause what he will say next will be mean.
"Spongyrude-pignut" it means the form is bad of a pig
ReplyDeleteBootless beetle-headed boar-pig
ReplyDeletePuny Rascal bugbear
The first plays were in the yards of inns
ReplyDeleteYou are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
ReplyDelete- it means your words mean nothing to him.