Saturday, February 19, 2011

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