Great Insults

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