Welcome to the shakespearean insult generator (based on Shakespeare insult kit)!
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python insult.py
python insult.py <list of wordsets>
python insult.py is equivalent to python insult.py w1.txt w2.txt w3.txt
Have fun!
| import functools | |
| import random | |
| import sys | |
| def applyto(*args): | |
| return functools.reduce(lambda l, r: r(l), args) | |
| def read_file(filename): | |
| content = None | |
| with open(filename) as fin: | |
| content = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in fin] | |
| return content | |
| def combine(*args): | |
| return [random.choice(arg) for arg in args] | |
| def format_insult(lst): | |
| return ' '.join(['Thou'] + lst) + '!' | |
| def insult(*args): | |
| return applyto( | |
| [read_file(it) for it in list(args)], | |
| lambda content: combine(*content), | |
| format_insult | |
| ) | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| filenames = ['w1.txt', 'w2.txt', 'w3.txt'] | |
| filenames = sys.argv[1:] or filenames | |
| print(insult(*filenames)) |
| artless | |
| bawdy | |
| beslubbering | |
| bootless | |
| churlish | |
| cockered | |
| clouted | |
| craven | |
| currish | |
| dankish | |
| dissembling | |
| droning | |
| errant | |
| fawning | |
| fobbing | |
| froward | |
| frothy | |
| gleeking | |
| goatish | |
| gorbellied | |
| impertinent | |
| infectious | |
| jarring | |
| loggerheaded | |
| lumpish | |
| mammering | |
| mangled | |
| mewling | |
| paunchy | |
| pribbling | |
| puking | |
| puny | |
| qualling | |
| rank | |
| reeky | |
| roguish | |
| ruttish | |
| saucy | |
| spleeny | |
| spongy | |
| surly | |
| tottering | |
| unmuzzled | |
| vain | |
| venomed | |
| villainous | |
| warped | |
| wayward | |
| weedy | |
| yeasty | |
| cullionly | |
| fusty | |
| caluminous | |
| wimpled | |
| burly-boned | |
| misbegotten | |
| odiferous | |
| poisonous | |
| fishified | |
| Wart-necked |
| base-court | |
| bat-fowling | |
| beef-witted | |
| beetle-headed | |
| boil-brained | |
| clapper-clawed | |
| clay-brained | |
| common-kissing | |
| crook-pated | |
| dismal-dreaming | |
| dizzy-eyed | |
| doghearted | |
| dread-bolted | |
| earth-vexing | |
| elf-skinned | |
| fat-kidneyed | |
| fen-sucked | |
| flap-mouthed | |
| fly-bitten | |
| folly-fallen | |
| fool-born | |
| full-gorged | |
| guts-griping | |
| half-faced | |
| hasty-witted | |
| hedge-born | |
| hell-hated | |
| idle-headed | |
| ill-breeding | |
| ill-nurtured | |
| knotty-pated | |
| milk-livered | |
| motley-minded | |
| onion-eyed | |
| plume-plucked | |
| pottle-deep | |
| pox-marked | |
| reeling-ripe | |
| rough-hewn | |
| rude-growing | |
| rump-fed | |
| shard-borne | |
| sheep-biting | |
| spur-galled | |
| swag-bellied | |
| tardy-gaited | |
| tickle-brained | |
| toad-spotted | |
| unchin-snouted | |
| weather-bitten | |
| whoreson | |
| malmsey-nosed | |
| rampallian | |
| lily-livered | |
| scurvy-valiant | |
| brazen-faced | |
| unwash'd | |
| bunch-back'd | |
| leaden-footed | |
| muddy-mettled | |
| pigeon-liver'd | |
| scale-sided |
| apple-john | |
| baggage | |
| barnacle | |
| bladder | |
| boar-pig | |
| bugbear | |
| bum-bailey | |
| canker-blossom | |
| clack-dish | |
| clotpole | |
| coxcomb | |
| codpiece | |
| death-token | |
| dewberry | |
| flap-dragon | |
| flax-wench | |
| flirt-gill | |
| foot-licker | |
| fustilarian | |
| giglet | |
| gudgeon | |
| haggard | |
| harpy | |
| hedge-pig | |
| horn-beast | |
| hugger-mugger | |
| joithead | |
| lewdster | |
| lout | |
| maggot-pie | |
| malt-worm | |
| mammet | |
| measle | |
| minnow | |
| miscreant | |
| moldwarp | |
| mumble-news | |
| nut-hook | |
| pigeon-egg | |
| pignut | |
| puttock | |
| pumpion | |
| ratsbane | |
| scut | |
| skainsmate | |
| strumpet | |
| varlot | |
| vassal | |
| whey-face | |
| wagtail | |
| knave | |
| blind-worm | |
| popinjay | |
| scullian | |
| jolt-head | |
| malcontent | |
| devil-monk | |
| toad | |
| rascal | |
| Basket-Cockle |