Proper Insults

[madPete]

Come up with your best insults. Make these period appropriate (see "The Vulgar Tongue" or various other sources of language)

 

Shuffling Scobberlotcher

(To Shuffle- make use of false pretenses, Scobberlotcher- someone who avoids hard work at all costs)

[Mary Diamond]

Ah, and I am at a loss, must needs extricate said reference from beneath the pile of projects…

[madPete]

that book should be in yer pocket! tho I know your peers might look down on you for that...

[madPete]

"brandy faced buttock broker" drunken (brandy faced) matchmaker (buttock broker )

 

[Mary Diamond]

Well… not cursing, but casual comments…

A blindman’s holiday is wasted on me, as I will get no rest until my earth bath.

Night, and death.

[madPete]

"birdwitted bow wow"

 

an inconsiderate man from Boston...

[Mary Diamond]

Aha! One for the cook to administer…

Shut your potatoe trap and give your tongue a holiday.

[madPete]

But then the cook would just be a cackling curmudgeon...

[Mary Diamond]

😁

[madPete]

The last thing we want to be is a

chicken-hammed cully

(fop/fool with arched or bent legs)

[William Brand]

Cumberworld Harecop.

[madPete]

Randy Prig.

[Tudor MercWench Smith]

8 hours ago, madPete said:

Randy Prig.

I . . . . I feel like this is an oxymoron. . . .is it just me?

[madPete]

Noisy or unruly thief (or cheat)

Based on "The Vulgar Tongue" Francis Grose

[Tudor MercWench Smith]

42 minutes ago, madPete said:

Noisy or unruly thief (or cheat)

Based on "The Vulgar Tongue" Francis Grose

Yep, completely different from modern parlance. . . . lol wonder what circuitous path the words had to take to get from there to here lol

[madPete]

That book was well worth the price. I get chuckles everytime I look thru it.

[Mary Diamond]

Oooh, gosh. Thumbing through, trying to find William’s Cumberworld Harecop, and I came across Mike the Pigeon. Ok, that means I am too tired, really must go to bed.

Hahahaha, and as I close said book to put it down, and there is Mike, looking at me from the back cover. Right, off I go.

[madPete]

14 hours ago, Mary Diamond said:

Oooh, gosh. Thumbing through, trying to find William’s Cumberworld Harecop, and I came across Mike the Pigeon. Ok, that means I am too tired, really must go to bed.

I couldnt find that in my copy, I had to google each of the words to decipher it.

[madPete]

their crew is like [a] Dutch Concert

All out of tune

[madPete]

btw - its pretty cheap on eBay if you dont care about a historical hardcover

[Mary Diamond]

Wait, what? A historical hardcover? Hysterical?

[madPete]

3 hours ago, Mary Diamond said:

Wait, what? A historical hardcover? Hysterical?

That too! written by a "Tom Cony"

[Mary Diamond]

Also available here:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402

[madPete]

I just ran across a term that would make any cook shudder in his tracks. So what I'm saying is don't ever compare the beefstew to bowwow mutton. (At least not in front of the cook)🤑

[Tudor MercWench Smith]

ok, not actually in the book, but took the powder monkeys to the Aquarium today and feel like this *COULD* be a Proper Insult -