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The 25 best Shakespearean insults: "Thou cream-faced loon"
Bill Shakespeare was famous for his fruity insults – here are just some of the best. And if you do choose to use these on colleagues, siblings, pets, mortal enemies, don't blame us for the consequences…
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1. Pox
from 'The Tempest'
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2. Knave
from 'All's Well That Ends Well'
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3. Strangers
from 'As You Like It'
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4. Three inch
from 'The Taming of the Shrew'
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5. February
from 'Much Ado About Nothing'
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6. Paper
from 'Henry IV, Part ii'
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7. Maypole
from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
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8. Lily-liver'd
from 'Macbeth'
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9. Carbuncle
from 'King Lear'
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10. Scullion
from 'Henry IV Part ii'
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11. Spherical
from 'The Comedy of Errors'
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12. Coxcomb
from 'Twelfth Night'
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13. Scambling
from 'Much Ado About Nothing'
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14. Weasel
from 'Henry IV Part i'
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15. Minion
from 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona'
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16. Promise-breaker
from 'All's Well that Ends Well'
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17. Infect my eyes
from 'Richard III'
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18. Stewed prune
from 'Henry IV Part i'
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19. Lack of wit
from 'Hamlet'
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20. Loon
from 'Macbeth'
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21. Football player
from 'King Lear'
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22. Butter
from 'Henry IV Part ii'
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23. Fat guts
from 'Henry IV Part i'
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24. Barbermonger
from 'King Lear'
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25. Nut-hook
form 'Henry IV, Part ii'
