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Shakespearean Insult Generator
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// Shakespearean Insult Generator | |
// | |
// Generates a random Shakespearean insult given three word lists, taken | |
// from this web page: http://bit.ly/OBqi3K | |
var ShakespeareanInsult = function() { | |
var words1 = [ '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' | |
]; | |
var words2 = [ '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' | |
]; | |
var words3 = [ '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' | |
]; | |
var _insult = function() { | |
return [ | |
'Thou', _randomElement(words1), | |
_randomElement(words2), _randomElement(words3) + '!', | |
].join(' '); | |
}; | |
var _randomElement = function(list) { | |
var index = Math.floor((Math.random() * list.length)); | |
return list[index]; | |
} | |
return { | |
insult: _insult | |
}; | |
}(); | |
module.exports = ShakespeareanInsult; | |
if (require.main === module) { | |
console.log(ShakespeareanInsult.insult()); | |
} |
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