My favourite Shakespearean insult is 'taffeta punk'.

[notadmblnd]

Another good one. "I bite my thumb at you"

Evolution of curse words, how profanity came to be

http://socyberty.com/education/evolution-of-profanity-how-swear-words-came-to-be/

http://www.allgreatquotes.com/shakespeare_insults_quotes.shtml

[Wilber_Stool]

1. Cool. Thanks...........n/t

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. I'm kind of partial to cream-faced loon, myself. n/m

[notadmblnd]

4. Sounds so much better than, as George Jefferson would say " honkey"

[notadmblnd]

3. Yes, some of our most eloquent dead writers have used the crass words of DU

Infact, they invented them.

“Fuck” is probably the most offensive swear word used. The
earliest use of it is in “Verbatim” in 1500, which says, “Non sunt in
celi/quia fuccant uuiuys of heli.” The meaning, unlike the language,
has remained the same, however. It still means “to copulate” (Lighter
831). Some popular variations of it are “fuck a duck,” “fucked by the
fickle finger of fate,” (Reinhold 79) “fucked up and far from home,”
and “fucking A.” The word “damn” itself is not extremely offensive,
but is rather used as an intensifier of other words or phrases. When
placed with God, however, it becomes a horrible, blasphemous word,
which is, to many, more offensive than fuck. This type of thinking
goes back to the sixteenth century when religious curses were far
worse than biological.

Read more: http://socyberty.com/education/evolution-of-profanity-how-swear-words-came-to-be/#ixzz0xGurfokt