Webster has a list of some great and rarely used insults.
01. Cockalorum
- a boastful and self-important person; a strutting little fellow
02. Lickspittle
- a fawning subordinate; a suck-up
03. Smellfungus
- an excessively faultfinding person
04. Snollygoster (different from Snollygaster, btw)
- an unprincipled but shrewd person
05. Ninnyhammer
- ninny; simpleton, fool
06. Mumpsimus
- a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong
07. Milksop
- an unmanly man; a mollycoddle (a pampered or effeminate boy or man)
08. Hobbledehoy
- an awkward, gawky young man
09. Pettifogger
- shyster; a lawyer whose methods are underhanded or disreputable
10. Mooncalf
- a foolish or absentminded person
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