Are you more of a Pettifogger – or a Hobbledehoy?
If you’d like to insult someone – you might as well make it poetic. Meriam-Webster has their top 10 list of rare insults and their definitions:
• Cockalorum: a boastful and self-important person; a strutting little fellow
• Lickspittle: a fawning subordinate; a suck-up
• Smellfungus: an excessively faultfinding person
• Snollygoster: an unprincipled but shrewd person
• Ninnyhammer: ninny; simpleton, fool
• Mumpsimus: a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being wrong
• Milksop: an unmanly man; a mollycoddle (a pampered or effeminate boy or man)
• Hobbledehoy: an awkward, gawky young man
• Pettifogger: shyster; a lawyer whose methods are underhanded or disreputable
• Mooncalf: a foolish or absentminded person
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