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In these contentious times, one can never have enough words in one’s arsenal, it would seem. Robert Clark has done everyone a service by discovering the website “42 Old English Insults,” which will up your game and help you remain somewhat civil in times of verbal trial.

For example, a gowpenful-o’-anything is “applied to one who is a medley of everything absurd.” A klazomaniac is “someone who only seems able to speak by shouting.” A lubberwort is “a lethargic, fuzzy-minded person,” a scobberlotcher is “someone who never works hard,” and a snoutband is “someone who constantly interrupts a conversation, typically only to contradict or correct someone else.” Well, you get the idea. Have at it.