1. Shakespeare Insults Dictionary
Nouns
Bawd Brothel keeper.
Bezonian A beggar
Bully-Rook A bragging cheater
Bona-Roba A harlot
Caitiff A slave or a witch
Capocchia A simpleton
Churl Rude, impolite person
Chamberer An effeminate or womanly man
Chuff A coarse, blunt clown
Concupy A concubine, a mistress.
Coxcomb A vain and conceited man.
Cozener A cheater
Cuckold An insulting term for a man whose wife has cheated on him.
Customer A common woman
Cullion A base fellow, a man with no morals
Cur An aggressive mongrel or contemptible man
Drab A harlot
Fustilarian A scoundrel
Gamester A loose woman with no sexual morals or purity
Geck A fool
Giglet A wanton girl, lustful
Hagseed The offspring of a hag
Hilding A paltry, puny man

2. Hiren A prostitute
Inkhorn-mate A contemptuous term for an educated man
Irregulous A lawless man or criminal
Jack A mean fellow
Jolthead A dunce
Kicksy-wicksy A disdainful name for a wife
Knave A low-born boy or serving-man
Lag The lowest of all peoples
Lifter A thief
Loon A contemptible fellow with no morals
Lowt A clown
Swinge-Buckler A bully
Maw The mouth or jaws of a ferocious animal or greedy person
Moon-calf An aborted foetus of a cow – used to suggest that the person is a
fool or idiot
Meazel A mean person
Minimus Little finger or little toe
Mouse-hunt A weasel
Mome A stupid person
Natural An idiot
Ninny A fool or jester
Noddy A dolt or stupid person
Patch A mean fellow
Pizzle A bull’s genitalia
Quat A pimple, an insulting term.
Rabbit-sucker A weasel

3. Rag A term of contempt
Rampallian A mean wretch
Riggish Sexually promiscuous woman with no morals (see also wanton)
Road Common woman
Rook A cheater
Scroyle A scabby fellow
Sot Fool
Scullion The lowest of all servants employed to do the most menial tasks in
the kitchen
Stale a decoy or a prostitute
Stigmatic a deformed person
Tallow Hard fat that comes from the bodies of sheep and cattle
Trojan A thief
Venomous Spiteful
Villain A low-born man
Wanton Sexually promiscuous woman
Woodcock A simpleton
Worm A serpent or snake
Adjectives
Abbhorrent Disgusting
Accursed Outlawed, criminal
Braid Deceitful
Capricious Lusty

4. Cozening Cheating
Cowish Cowardly
Deboshed Drunk
Enseamed Fat, rank
Facinorous Wicked
Fulsome Lustful
Garish Gawdy, showy, lacking in good taste
Gorbellied Excessively fat
Horn-mad Crazy
Leasing lying
Lewd Ignorant and rude
Lither Lazy
Loathsome Hateful, detestable
Meacock Cowardly
Moonish Inconstant, changeable, or fickle
Mistempered Angry
Miscreate Illegitimate
Mincing Affected, putting on airs and graces
Nice Foolish
Obsequious Fawning, giving false complements to
Orgulous Proud
Palled Impaired, with some kind of deficiency or disability
Pathetical Hypercritical
Picking Insignificant, unimportant
Prime Rank, leacherous

5. Princecox See also coxcomb meaning conceited, arrogant, foolish person.
Princecox exaggerates this.
Pugging Thieving
Rash Quick, violent
Rawly Inadequate
Reechy Dirty
Ripe Drunk
Roisting Violent
Ronvon A term of contempt applied to a woman
Roynish In poor condition, shabby
Saucy Lusty, lewd
Scald Scabby
Scathful Destructive
Scurvy Scabby
Seam Fat
Sere Dry
Shrewd Mischievous
Single Feeble, weak
Skilless Ignorant
Spleeny Bad-tempered, spiteful, nasty
Stigmatical Deformed
Sullen Moody
Thrasonical Boastful
Unjust Dishonest
Unpregnant Stupid
Unrespective inconsiderate, selfish

6. Unstanched Incontinent, having no control of bodily functions
Vinewed Mouldy
Volube Fickle, changeable
Wailful Lamentable, someone to be pitied
Wee Small, tiny
Women-tired Hen-pecked, nagged by your wife
Writhled Shrivelled

7. Unstanched Incontinent, having no control of bodily functions
Vinewed Mouldy
Volube Fickle, changeable
Wailful Lamentable, someone to be pitied
Wee Small, tiny
Women-tired Hen-pecked, nagged by your wife
Writhled Shrivelled