Shakespeare's language world
Make your own swear words!
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Artless Base-court Apple-john
Bawdy Bat-fowling Baggage
Beslubbering Beef-witted Barnacle
Bootless Beetle-headed Bladder
Churlish Boil-brained Boar-pig
Cockered Clapper-clawed Bugbear
Clouted Clay-brained Bum-bailey
Craven Common-kissing Canker-blossom
Currish Crook-pated Clack-dish
Dankish Dismal-dreaming Clot-pole
Dissembling Dizzy-eyed Coxcomb
Droning Dog-hearted Codpiece
Errant Dread-bolted Death-token
Fawning Earth-vexing Dewberry
Fobbing Elf-skinned Flap-dragon
Froward Fat-kidneyed Flax-wench
Frothy Fen-sucked Flirt-gill
Gleeking Flap-mouthed Foot-licker
Goatish Fly-bitten Fustilarian
Gorbellied Folly-fallen Giglet
Impertinent Fool-born Gudgeon
Infectious Full-gorged Haggard
Jarring Guts-griping Harpy
Loggerheaded Half-faced Hedge-pig
Lumpish Hasty-witted Horn-beast
Mammering Hedge-born Huggermugger
Mangled Hell-hated Jolt-head
Mewling Idle-headed Lewdster
Paunchy Ill-breeding Lout
Pribbling Ill-nurtured Maggot-pie
Puking Knotty-pated Malt-worm
Puny Milk-livered Mammet
Quailing Motley-minded Measle
Rank Onion-eyed Minnow
Reeky Plume-plucked Miscreant
Roguish Pottle-deep Mold-warp
Ruttish Pox-marked Mumble-news
Saucy Reeling-ripe Nut-hook
Spleeny Rough-hewn Pigeon-egg
Spongy Rude-growing Pignut
Surly Rump-fed Puttock
Tottering Shard-borne Pumpion
Unmuzzled Sheep-biting Rats-bane
Vain Spur-galled Scut
Venomed Swag-bellied Skains-mate
Villainous Tardy-gaited Strumpet
Warped Tickle-brained Varlot
Wayward Toad-spotted Vassal
Weedy Unchin-snouted Whey-face
Yeasty Weather-bitten Wagtail
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Artless Base-court Apple-john
Bawdy Bat-fowling Baggage
Beslubbering Beef-witted Barnacle
Bootless Beetle-headed Bladder
Churlish Boil-brained Boar-pig
Cockered Clapper-clawed Bugbear
Clouted Clay-brained Bum-bailey
Craven Common-kissing Canker-blossom
Currish Crook-pated Clack-dish
Dankish Dismal-dreaming Clot-pole
Dissembling Dizzy-eyed Coxcomb
Droning Dog-hearted Codpiece
Errant Dread-bolted Death-token
Fawning Earth-vexing Dewberry
Fobbing Elf-skinned Flap-dragon
Froward Fat-kidneyed Flax-wench
Frothy Fen-sucked Flirt-gill
Gleeking Flap-mouthed Foot-licker
Goatish Fly-bitten Fustilarian
Gorbellied Folly-fallen Giglet
Impertinent Fool-born Gudgeon
Infectious Full-gorged Haggard
Jarring Guts-griping Harpy
Loggerheaded Half-faced Hedge-pig
Lumpish Hasty-witted Horn-beast
Mammering Hedge-born Huggermugger
Mangled Hell-hated Jolt-head
Mewling Idle-headed Lewdster
Paunchy Ill-breeding Lout
Pribbling Ill-nurtured Maggot-pie
Puking Knotty-pated Malt-worm
Puny Milk-livered Mammet
Quailing Motley-minded Measle
Rank Onion-eyed Minnow
Reeky Plume-plucked Miscreant
Roguish Pottle-deep Mold-warp
Ruttish Pox-marked Mumble-news
Saucy Reeling-ripe Nut-hook
Spleeny Rough-hewn Pigeon-egg
Spongy Rude-growing Pignut
Surly Rump-fed Puttock
Tottering Shard-borne Pumpion
Unmuzzled Sheep-biting Rats-bane
Vain Spur-galled Scut
Venomed Swag-bellied Skains-mate
Villainous Tardy-gaited Strumpet
Warped Tickle-brained Varlot
Wayward Toad-spotted Vassal
Weedy Unchin-snouted Whey-face
Yeasty Weather-bitten Wagtail
Language IN Elizabethan Times
The Elizabethan era was a time associated with Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558–1603) and is often considered to be the golden age in English history. It was the height of the English Renaissance and saw the flowering of English poetry, music and literature. This was also the time during which Elizabethan theatre flourished, and William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of plays and theatre. It was an age of exploration and expansion abroad, while back at home, the Protestant Reformation became more acceptable to the people, most certainly after the Spanish Armada was repulsed.
Words we no longer use
good morrow (good day)
good e'en (good evening)
how now? (how's it going?)
fare-thee-well (goodbye)
fare-thee-anon (until later)
lord-keep-thee anon (until later)
aye/yea (yes)
nay (no)
ne'r (never)
oft (often)
wherefore (why)
mayhap/perchance/belike (maybe)
enow (enough)
verily (very/truly)
prithee/pray (please)
thank thee (thank you)
grammarcy (thank you)
fie (a curse)
aroint (away)
yon (yonder / over there)
hither (here)
good morrow (good day)
good e'en (good evening)
how now? (how's it going?)
fare-thee-well (goodbye)
fare-thee-anon (until later)
lord-keep-thee anon (until later)
aye/yea (yes)
nay (no)
ne'r (never)
oft (often)
wherefore (why)
mayhap/perchance/belike (maybe)
enow (enough)
verily (very/truly)
prithee/pray (please)
thank thee (thank you)
grammarcy (thank you)
fie (a curse)
aroint (away)
yon (yonder / over there)
hither (here)
Conclusion
In conclusion lanuage in Elizabethan times sounded like fancy pirates.the lanuage is complicated and is full of shortend words as if they couldnt be bothered to say the full words.