Wordnik.com: Name-Calling for Fun and Profit: Comments

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:26:49 +0000

Foot-licker? Hahaha! Thanks c_b! That's going to be my new driving "cuss" word! It's very satisfying and yet, not really R rated. I think it would qualify for words that sound dirty, but aren't.

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:14:15 +0000

I like meatball mind. The historical context is part of the attraction as apparently it originates in a comment by Henry Kissinger about Richard Nixon.

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:39:22 +0000

I still stand by "the son and heir of a mongrel bitch" as one of my favorites. How elegantly insulting!

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:35:27 +0000

Thanks reesetee. From my Shakespearean insults mug:

mountain of mad flesh
light of brain
bolting-hutch of beastliness
not so much brain as ear wax
long-tongu'd babbling gossip
thou art a boil, a plague sore
You rampallian! You fustillarian!
O gull, O dolt, as ignorant as dirt
Clod of wayward marl
false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand
roast-meat for worms
infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker
lump of foul deformity
highly fed and lowly taught
all eyes and no sight
all the infections that the sun sucks up
elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog
veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth
foot-licker
anointed and sovereign of sighs and groans
lewdly inclin'd
the soul of this man is his clothes
quintessence of dust
canker-blossom
poisonous bunch-back'd toad
a fusty nut with no kernel
beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave
and my favorite:
I do desire we may be better strangers.

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:04:32 +0000

From King Lear, Act II, Scene 2.

KENT: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a [lily-liver’d], action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; a one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

Ah! Those were the days....

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:47:47 +0000

Uselessness, those are all terrific. Thanks!

Comment by uselessness, over 2 years ago

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:38:50 +0000

whelp? curmudgeon? sissypants? boob? muttonhead? crank? poindexter? fruitloop? dumdum? scoundrel? prick? lemonhead? cad? dingdong?

Comment by whatever1013, over 2 years ago

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:04:31 +0000

thank you! creative name-calling is one of my favorites.