effing shakespeare
one of my 317 pet peeves is the modern dictionarification of reference material. don’t get me wrong, traditional dictionaries still put the lead in my 7.5 inch-long lead pencil, BUT if a dictionary doesn’t give definitions, it is not actually a dictionary—even if its contents are indexed alphabetically. the shakespeare insults dictionary is an example of this latter, looser type of dictionary. regardless, i made a pledge to you long ago to find interesting f-words from dictionaries and i intend on delivering EVEN if it goes against my irrational biases.
here are a few choice insults that begin with f collected from shakespeare’s oeuvre. you can use them on your enemies in real life OR, as shakespeare probably intended—in online flame wars:
- false caterpillars
- famished beggar
- fancy-monger
- fat and greasy citizen
- fat chuff
- fatal screech-owl
- fat-kidneyed rascal
- fell-lurking cur
- filthy worsted-stocking knave
- fishmonger
- flax-wench
- flinty tartar
- foolish carrion
- foul indigested lump
- frantic fool
- freckled whelp hag-born
- frosty-spirited rogue
- fustilarian
- fusty plebeian
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