One should always have a fine insult at the ready for unleashing on your bewildered foe, e.g:Thou bawdy unchin-snouted hugger-mugger!
The chap says that they are not genuine Shakespearean taunts but many of them are attributed and this Elizabethan Curse Generator seems better than most of the others on offer.
The aim of the series is so that you need never walk naked into the conference chamber – that you’ll always have a great historical insult at the ready to hurl.
Here are more.
Here're some genuine ones, from King Lear Act 2, Scene 2:
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What dost thou know me for?
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-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
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.
And then, a few lines later on, my favourite Shakespearean insult of all:
Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!
Classic, Notsaussure, classic.
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