Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles

Below are nearly all curse words used by the Captain in the books.  The number of words that mean a stupid idiot is astounding.  I really had no idea.  Some of these expressions, like vegetarian or bougainvillea, seem to be things that Herge disliked.  Because these are really not insulting.  So the only thing I could think was that Herge personally disliked these things.  There are others like - breathalyzer and polygraph - these may be insulting only in that these devices are invasive of personal space.  Herge may have used these to mean meddlesome.  Just a thought.  Now on with it.   

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Abecedarians Coward Jack pudding Profiteer
Abominable Snowmen Crab-Apples  Jellied-Eel Psychopath
Aborigine Cro-Magnon  Jelly-fish Pyrographer 
Anachronisms Crooks  Jobbernowl Pyromaniac
Anacoluthons  Cyclone  Kleptomaniacs  Rat
Anamorphic aardvark Cyclotron Ku-Klux-Klan Rhizopod
Anthracite Diplodocus  Lily-livered Bandicoots Road-Hog
Anthropithecus Dipsomaniac Liquorice Ruffian
Anthropophagus Dizzard Logarithm  Savage
Arabian nightmare Dog Macrocephalic Baboon Scoffing Braggart
Artichokes Doryphores Mameluke Sea-Gherkins
Autocrat Duck-Billed Platypus  Megacycle Shipwrecker
Aztecs Dunder-Headed Ethelreds Megalomaniac  Slave-Trader 
Baboon Dynamiter Miserable Earthworm Slubberdegullion
Bagpipers Ectoplasm Misguided Missile Squawking Popinjay
Balkan Beetle Egoists Monopolizers Steamroller
Bandit Fancy-Dress Fatima Moth-Eaten Marmot Swine
Bashi-bazouk Fancy-Dress Freebooters  Moujik Sycophant 
Beasts Fat Face Mountebank Technocrat 
Belemnite Filibuster Nincompoop Terrapin
Big-head Flaming Jack-in-a-box Nitwit Toad
Black marketeers Freshwater Swab Numbskull Toffee-Noses
Blackamoor Fuzzy-Wuzzy Nyctalops Torturer
Black-Beetles Gallows-Fodder Odd-toed Ungulate Traitor
Blackbird Gang of Thieves Olympic Athlete Tramp
Blackguards Gangster Ophicleides Troglodyte
Bloodsucker Gibbering Ghost Orangoutang Turncoat
Body-snatcher Gobbledygook Ostrogoth Twister
Bootlegger Goggler Pachyrhizus  Vagabond
Bougainvillea Goosecap Paranoiac Vampire
Breathalyser  Guano Gatherer Parasite Vandal
Brigand Gyroscope Patagonian Vegetarian
Brontosaurus Harlequin Phylloxera  Vermicelli
Brutes Heretic Picaroon Villain
Buccaneer Highwayman Pirate Visigoth
Bully Hi-jacker Pithecanthropus Vivisectionist
Cannibal Hooligan  Pockmark Vulture
Carpet-sellers Hydrocarbon  Politician Whippersnapper
Caterpillars Iconoclast Poltroon Woodlice
Centipede Interplanetary goat Polygraph Wrecker
Cercopithecus Invertebrate Polynesian Zapotec
Coconuts Prattling porpoise
Coelacanth
Corsair

Abecedarian:

One who teaches or studies the alphabet. Having to do with the alphabet. Being arranged alphabetically.

One who is just learning; a beginner.

Elementary or rudimentary.

Abominable Snowman:

A hairy humanlike animal reportedly inhabiting the snows of the high Himalaya Mountains. Also called yeti.

Aborigine:

A member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region.

The flora and fauna native to a geographic area.

Anachronisms:

Representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than the chronological, proper, or historical order.

One that is out of its proper or chronological order.

Anacoluthons:

An abrupt change within a sentence to a second construction inconsistent with the first, sometimes used for rhetorical effect; for example, I warned him that if he continues to drink, what will become of him?

Anamorphic Aardvark:

Anamorphic - adj 1: pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another 2: pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system; "an anamorphic lens"

Aardvark - Earth-Pig. An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue. It is nocturnal in nature. Aardvark is the sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata.

Anthracite:

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.

Anthropithecus:

Or the Anthropoid. Suborder Anthropoid of the order Primates. Also called the higher primates. Apes, monkeys, gorillas and man belong to this order. Quadrupedal, brachiating or bipedal in gait. Diurnal in habit (except night monkey, Aotus). Omnivorous in diet. Tail present or absent, varying in length from species to species, prehensile in some. Size ranges from very small (Saguinus and Callithrix, the tamarins and marmosets) to very large (Gorilla and Homo). Faces show varying degrees of protrusion, most marked in the baboons and mandrills and least developed in man.

Anthropophagous:

An eater of human flesh. A cannibal.

Arabian Nightmare:

Arabian - adj 1: relating to or associated with Arabia or its people; "Arabian Nights"; "Arabian Sea" [syn: Arabian] 2: of or relating to Arabian horses [syn: Arabian] n 1: an Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or N Africa [syn: Arab, Arabian] 2: a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia [syn: Arabian, Arab]

Nightmare - 1. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.

2. A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.

Artichokes:

A Mediterranean thistle like plant (Cynara scolymus) in the composite family, having pinnately divided leaves and large discoid heads of bluish flowers.

The edible, immature flower head of this plant.

Autocrat:

A despot. A ruler having unlimited power or authority.

Aztecs:

People of central Mexico whose civilization was at its height at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century.

Baboon:

Any of several large, terrestrial African and Asian monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae, especially of the genus Papio or Chaeropithecus and related genera, characterized by an elongated, doglike muzzle, a short tail, and bare calluses on the buttocks. Slang. A brutish person; a boor.

Bagpipers:

A person who plays a bagpipe.

A bagpipe is an instrument having a flexible bag inflated either by a tube with valves or by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe, and from one to four drone pipes. Often used in the plural.

Balkan Beetle:

Balkan - Of or related to the Balkan peninsula or the Balkan mountains.

Beetle - Any of numerous insects of the order Coleoptera, having biting mouthparts and forewings modified to form horny coverings that protect the underlying pair of membranous hind wings when at rest.

A heavy mallet with a large wooden head.

A machine with revolving wooden hammers that gives fabrics a lustrous sheen.

Jutting; overhanging.

Bandit:

An armed thief who is usually part of a band. An outlaw. A gangster.

Bashi-bazouk:

Turkish, light-headed, a foolish fellow. A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

Beasts:

An animal other than a human being.

A brute. A contemptible person.

Belemnite:

A conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae

Bighead:

Conceited. Egotist.

Any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck.

Black Marketeer:

A person dealing in the black market. A black market is a place where buying and/or selling operations are carried out in violation of the local price control, rationing or other laws.

Blackamoor:

A person with dark skin who (or whose ancestors) came from Africa.

Black Beetle:

Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up.

Blackbird:

Any of various New World birds of the family Icteridae, such as the grackle or red-winged blackbird, the male of which has black or predominantly black plumage.

An Old World songbird (Turdus merula), the male of which is black with a yellow bill. In this sense, also called merle.

Blackguards:

The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the ``black guard''; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans.

The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.

A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A thoroughly unprincipled person.

Bloodsuckers:

Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech, and related species.

One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.

A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.

Body Snatcher:

A person who steals corpses from graves and sells them, usually for dissection.

Bootlegger:

To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally.

Bougainvillea:

Any of several South American woody shrubs or vines of the genus Bougainvillea having groups of three petallike, showy, variously colored bracts attached to the flowers.

Breathalyzer:

A device that measures alcohol content of a person's breath.

Brigand:

A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter.

Brontosaurus:

A very large herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus (or Brontosaurus), of the Jurassic period.

Brute:

A person lacking the understanding or sensibility regarded as distinguishing people from animals. A crude or insensitive person.

Buccaneer:

A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The term buccaneer corresponds to the word barbecuer. The first recorded use of the French word boucanier, which was borrowed into English, referred to a person on the islands of Hispaniola and Tortuga who hunted wild oxen and boars and smoked the meat in a barbecue frame known in French as a boucan. This French word came from an Arawakan or Tupinamba word meaning "a rack, sometimes used for roasting or for storing things, or a racklike platform supporting an Indian house." The original barbecuers seem to have subsequently adapted a more remunerative way of life, piracy, which accounts for the new meaning given to the word. Buccaneer is recorded first in 1661 in its earlier sense in English; the sense we are familiar with is recorded in 1690.

Bully:

A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.

A hired ruffian; a thug.  A pimp.

Cannibal:

A human (or an animal) that feeds on others of its own kind.

Carpet sellers:

A person who sells carpets. A carpet is a heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.

Caterpillars:

Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larv[ae] of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage.

Centipede:

Any of various wormlike arthropods of the class Chilopoda, having a flattened body composed of segments, each bearing a pair of jointed appendages. The appendages of the foremost body segment are modified into venomous biting organs with which it preys on insects, such as cockroaches.

Cercopethicus:

Genus Cercopithecus of suborder Anthropoids of the order Primates. Genus Cercopethicus includes certain african and Asian monkeys. Also called the Old World Monkeys. Medium to large in size. Arboreal or terrestrial. Characterized by naked callosities covering expanded ischial bone of pelvis. Quadrupedal, plantigrade, or digitigrade in gait; hindlimbs longer than forelimbs in most species, but in ground-adapted forms limbs are nearly equal. Thumb present in all genera (except Colobus) and functionally opposable. Muzzle more or less prominent. Noses with external nasal opening facing forwards and downwards or directly downwards. The genus consists of 13 genera, 72 species. Cercopithecus are generally found in Africa, India, China, Japan, and South East Asia.

Coconuts:

The fruit of the coconut palm, consisting of a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.  Coconut is the biggest of all nuts.

The large, brown, hard-shelled seed of the coconut, containing white flesh surrounding a partially fluid-filled central cavity.

The edible white flesh of the coconut, often shredded and used in food and confections or for the extraction of coconut oil.

Coelacanth:

Any of various mostly extinct fishes of the order Coelacanthiformes, known only in fossil form until a single living species, Latimeria chalumnae of Madagascar marine waters, was identified in 1938.

Corsair:

A pirate, especially along the Barbary Coast, who cruises about without authorization from any government to seize booty on sea or on land.

A swift pirate ship, often operating with official sanction.

Coward:

A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.

Crab Apples:

Any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acid usually bright-red fruit used for preserving or as ornamentals for their blossoms

Any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acid fruit

Small sour apple; suitable for preserving

Cro Magnon:

Cro-Magnon is the name of a rock shelter near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne, Fr., where several prehistoric skeletons were found in 1868. Sent to the site, the French geologist Louis Lartet began excavations in which he established the existence of five archaeological layers covered with ash. The age of the human remains found in the topmost layer--along with worked flint and the bones of animals of species now extinct--is Upper Paleolithic (c. 35,000-10,000 years ago), but the attribution of these to a clearly defined Upper Paleolithic culture is less definite. Traditionally regarded as Aurignacian, since typically Aurignacian artifacts were found in the rock shelter, they could be more recent, and it has been suggested that they should be assigned to the Perigordian (a separate industry covering approximately the same time period as the Aurignacian), which would give an age of about 25,000 BC.

Crooks:

People who make their living by false and dishonest methods. Knaves.

Crooks, SD (city, FIPS 14740) Location: 43.66017 N, 96.80726 W Population (1990): 671 (215 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57020

Cyclone:

In general, a condition of the atmosphere characterized by a central area of pressure much lower than that of surrounding areas, and a system of winds blowing inward and around (clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the northern). It is attended by high temperature, moist air, abundant precipitation, and clouded sky. The term includes the hurricane, typhoon, and tropical storms; it should not be applied to the moderate disturbances attending ordinary areas of low pressure nor to tornadoes, waterspouts, or ``twisters,'' in which the vertical motion is more important than the horizontal.

Cyclotron:

An accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles.

Diplodocus:

Huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western N. America.

Dipsomaniac:

A person with uncontrollable, periodic and severe cravings for alcoholic beverages.

Dizzard:

A blockhead. Also written as Dizard and Disard.

Dog:

A domesticated carnivorous mammal (Canis familiaris) related to the foxes and wolves and raised in a wide variety of breeds.

A person regarded as unattractive or uninteresting.  A person regarded as contemptible.

Doryphores (or Doryphoros):

A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

Duck-Billed Platypus:

A semiaquatic egg-laying mammal (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) of Australia and Tasmania, having a broad flat tail, webbed feet, and a snout resembling a duck's bill. Also called duckbill or simply platypus.

Dunderhead Ethelreds:

A person of low intelligence. A fool. Other colorful synonyms are: dunce, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, fuckhead.

Ethelreds - {no meaning}.

Dynamiter:

A person who would blow up, shatter or otherwise destroy with or as if with dynamite. Dynamite is any of a class of powerful explosives composed of nitroglycerin or ammonium nitrate dispersed in an absorbent medium with a combustible dope, such as wood pulp, and an antacid, such as calcium carbonate, used in blasting and mining.

Ectoplasm:

The outer portion of the continuous phase of cytoplasm of a cell, sometimes distinguishable as a somewhat rigid, gelled layer beneath the cell membrane.

The visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead. An immaterial or ethereal substance, especially the transparent corporeal presence of a spirit or ghost.

Egoist:

A conceited, self centered person. A believer of egoism. One given much to thoughts of oneself.

Fancy Dress Fatima:

Fancy Dress - A dress worn as a disguise during a masquerade ball. A party disguise. A masquerade costume.

Fatima - Daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. She married Ali, among the first to embrace Islam, and is considered by Muslims to be one of the Four Perfect Women.

Fancy Dress Freebooters:

Fancy Dress - A dress worn as a disguise during a masquerade ball. A party disguise. A masquerade costume.

Freebooters - People who plunder and pillage. A pirate.

Fat Faces:

Derogatory term for an obese person aimed at making fun at the corpulence of the person's countenance. The face is the surface of the front of the head from the top of the forehead to the base of the chin and from ear to ear.

Filibuster:

An adventurer that engages in private military action in a foreign country. A mercenary. A freebooter.

A person that employs obstructionist tactics against, usually a legislative measure. A legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes. A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches v : obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation.

Flaming Jack-in-a-box:

Flaming - Resembling a flame in brilliance, color, or form. Intense, ardent, burning with zeal, irrepressibly earnest.

Jack-in-a-box - A tropical tree (Hernandia sonora), which bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated calyx. (b) A child's toy, consisting of a box, out of which, when the lid is raised, a figure springs. (c) (Mech.) An epicyclic train of bevel gears for transmitting rotary motion to two parts in such a manner that their relative rotation may be variable; applied to driving the wheels of tricycles, road locomotives, and to cotton machinery, etc.; an equation box; a jack frame.

Freshwater Swab:

Freshwater - Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor. Unskilled, raw.

Swab - A sailor. Also called swabbie. A lout.

Fuzzy-Wuzzy:

Not clear; indistinct; incoherent; confused.

Gallows Fodder:

A person who deserves the gallows. Gallows is a frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.

Gang of Thieves:

A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

Gangster:

A member of organized group of criminals. A hoodlum that belongs to a gang.

Gibbering Ghost:

Gibbering - To talk about nothing in fact. To talk incessantly unintelligibly. To chatter.

Ghost - The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats. The center of spiritual life; the soul. A demon or spirit.

Gobbledygook:

Unclear, wordy and unintelligible jargon. Gibberish.

Goggler:

A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes.

Goose Cap:

A silly person.

Guano Gatherer:

A person that gathers guano. Guano is a substance composed chiefly of the dung of sea birds or bats, accumulated along certain coastal areas or in caves and used as fertilizer.

Gyroscope:

A device consisting of a spinning mass, typically a disk or wheel, mounted on a base so that its axis can turn freely in one or more directions and thereby maintain its orientation regardless of any movement of the base. It was invented by M. Foucault, to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion.

A universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction.

Harlequin:

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.

Heretic:

One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.

Highwayman:

One who robs and steals from travelers on road. A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it.

Hijacker:

A person who steals from a vehicle in transit. To seize control of (a moving vehicle) by use of force, especially in order to reach an alternate destination.

Hooligan:

A young ruffian. A hoodlum. Young thug.

Hydrocarbon:

An organic compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.

Iconoclast:

Someone who tries to destroy traditional ideas or institutions. One who seeks and destroys sacred religious objects, images.

One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.

Interplanetary Goat:

A victim of ridicule, jokes, and pranks. {Interplanetary reference is merely due to the fact that the phrase occurred in one of the two Moon flight Tintin books.}

Invertebrate:

Lacking a backbone or spinal column; not vertebrate. Pejorative term sometimes used to describe a person with no courage or will.

Jackpudding:

A merry-andrew; a buffoon. --Milton.

Jellied Eel:

Jellied - Chilled or otherwise congealed into jelly. A jelly is a soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.

Eel - Elongate fatty-fleshed fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels usually smoked or pickled. A voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fish with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

Jellyfish:

One who lacks force of character; a weakling.

Jobbernowl:

A stupid fellow. A blockhead. An idiot.

Kleptomaniac:

An obsessive impulse to steal regardless of economic need, usually arising from an unconscious symbolic value associated with the stolen item.

Ku-Klux-Klan:

A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.

Lily-livered Bandicoots:

Lily-livered - Timid. Cowardly. Someone without courage and will. Someone who is easily frightened.

Bandicoots - Any of several ratlike marsupials of the family Peramelidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, that feed on insects and plants and have a long, tapering snout and elongated hind legs.

Liquorice:

Deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots.

A black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant.

Logarithm:

One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.

The power to which a base, usually 10, must be raised to produce a given number. If nx = a, the logarithm of a, with n as the base, is x; symbolically, logn a = x. For example, 103 = 1,000; therefore, log10 1,000 = 3. The kinds most often used are the common logarithm and the natural logarithm.

Macrocephalic Baboon:

Macrocephalic - Abnormal largeness of head.

Baboon - Any of several large, terrestrial African and Asian monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae, especially of the genus Papio or Chaeropithecus and related genera, characterized by an elongated, doglike muzzle, a short tail, and bare calluses on the buttocks. Slang. A brutish person; a boor.

Mameluke:

A purchased slave or captive; lit., possessed or in one's power. One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.

Megacycle:

One million periods per second. Also called Megahertz.

Megalomaniac:

A psychopathological condition in which delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence predominate.

An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.

Miserable Earthworm:

Miserable - Very uncomfortable. Wretched. Of poor quality. Mean or shameful.

Earthworms - Any of various terrestrial annelid worms of the class Oligochaeta, that burrow into and help aerate and enrich soil.

Misguided Missile:

An object or weapon thrown, dropped or otherwise projected astray. An out of control projectile.

Monopolizer:

A person who dominates to the exclusion of others. Someone with exclusive control or possession of.

Moth-eaten:

Showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains."

Worn or eaten away by or as if by moths; "moth-eaten blankets" 3: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.

Marmot:

Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent, size of a rabbit, with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter. Mountain mouse or rat.

Moujik:

A peasant on Czarist Russia. This word is a variant of Muzhik.

Mountebank:

Someone who prevails over others using trickery or artifice. A charlatan.

Nincompoop:

A fool. A stupid person. A person with less than average intelligence.

Nitwit:

A stupid incompetent person. A person regarded as a nincompoop.

Numbskull:

A person regarded as stupid. A nitwit.

Nyctalops:

One afflicted with A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.

Odd-toed Ungulate:

A clumsy hoofed animal.

Olympic Athlete:

A person participating in the Olympic games and who possesses the natural or acquired traits, such as strength, agility, and endurance, that are necessary for physical exercise or sports, especially those performed in competitive contexts.

Ophicleide:

A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves.

Orangoutang:

An arboreal anthropoid ape, which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the ground when the body is erect. Its color is reddish brown. In structure, it closely resembles man in many respects.

Ostrogoth:

One of a tribe of eastern Goths that conquered and ruled Italy from A.D. 493 to 555. One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.

Goths term is also used to signify a person that is crude, uncouth, ill-bred, lacks culture or refinement [a peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike].

Pachyrhizus:

Small genus of tropical vines having tuberous roots.

Paranoiac:

A person affected by paranoia. A person who suffers from a chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency.

Parasite:

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

One who lives off and flatters the rich; a sycophant.

Patagonian:

A native of Patagonia, a tableland region of South America in southern Argentina and Chile extending from the Río Colorado to the Straits of Magellan and from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.

Phylloxera:

A small insect allied to the aphids that attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe.

Picaroon:

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.

Pirates:

One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation. One who preys on others; a plunderer. A corsair, a picaroon.

A ship used for this purpose.

Pithecanthropus:

An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily between apes and human beings. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.

Pockmarks:

A pitlike scar left on the skin by smallpox or another eruptive disease.

A small pit on a surface.

Politician:

One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties; a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician.

Poltroon:

An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. An abject coward.

Polygraph:

An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

An instrument that simultaneously records changes in physiological processes such as heartbeat, blood pressure, and respiration, often used as a lie detector.

Polynesian:

A native of Polynesia. A division of Oceania including scattered islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean roughly between New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island. The larger islands are volcanic, the smaller ones generally coral formations.

Prattling Porpoise:

A pejorative term to describe a person that is indulging in idle meaningless chatter. Someone who is babbling.

Profiteer:

Someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) v : make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods.

Psychopath:

A person with an antisocial personality disorder, especially one manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior.

Pyrographer:

A person who produces designs on wood, leather, or other materials by using heated tools or a fine flame.

Pyromaniac:

A person afflicted with an uncontrollable urge to start fires.

Rat:

A despicable, sneaky person, especially one who betrays or informs upon associates.

Rhizopod:

A protozoan of the phylum Rhizopoda, such as an amoeba or a radiolarian, characteristically moving and taking in food by means of pseudopods.

Road Hog:

A motorist whose vehicle overlaps the traffic lane used by another motorist. A driver who obstructs the passage of another vehicle.

Ruffian:

A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat. A rowdy. Thug.

Savages:

People that are considered not civilized, barbaric, cruel and brutal. Merciless and vicious.

Scoffing Braggart:

Scoffing - To laugh at or treat with derision. Sneer.

Braggart - Someone given to wild, loud and empty boasting.

Sea Gherkins:

Any small holothurian (sea plant of class Holothuroidea) resembling in form a small prickly cucumber.

Shipwreckers:

People who are employed in the trade of wrecking a ship possibly for recycling the materials or for immobilization.

Slave Trader:

A person who traffics in slaves.

Slubberdegullion:

A mean dirty wretch.

Squawking Popinjay:

A vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) who is getting on ones nerves due to the their loudness.

Steamroller:

A steam-driven machine equipped with a heavy roller for smoothing road surfaces.

To overwhelm or suppress ruthlessly; crush.

To move or proceed with overwhelming or crushing force.

Swine:

A person regarded as brutish or contemptible.

Sycophant:

A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

Technocrat:

A technical expert, especially one in a managerial or administrative position.

Terrapin:

Any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water.

Toad:

A person regarded as repulsive.

Toffee-Noses:

A person(s) with nose shaped like a toffee.

Torturer:

A person who inflicts excruciating physical or mental pain as a means of punishment or coercion.

Traitor:

One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.

Tramp:

One who travels aimlessly about on foot, doing odd jobs or begging for a living; a vagrant.

A prostitute. A person regarded as promiscuous.

Troglodyte:

A member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens, or holes.

A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish.

Turncoat:

A traitor. One who says one thing and does another. A person with no morals.

Twister:

A localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground. A tornado.

Vagabond:

A person without a permanent home who moves from place to place.

A vagrant; a tramp. A wanderer; a rover.

Vampire:

A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.

One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

Vandal:

Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.

A member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and N Africa and sacked Rome in 455.

Vegetarian:

One who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products.

Vermicelli:

Pasta made in long strands thinner than spaghetti.

Villain:

A wicked or evil person; a scoundrel.

A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero.

Visigoth:

A member of the western Goths that invaded the Roman Empire in the fourth century A.D. and settled in France and Spain, establishing a monarchy that lasted until the early eighth century.

Goths term is also used to signify a person that is crude, uncouth, ill-bred, lacks culture or refinement [a peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike].

Vivisectionist:

A person who performs or supports the performance of vivisection. Vivisection is the act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research.

Vulture:

A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.

Whippersnapper:

Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous. A person regarded as insignificant and pretentious.

Woodlice:

Or termite. Any of numerous pale-colored, usually soft-bodied social insects of the order Isoptera that live mostly in warm regions and many species of which feed on wood, often destroying trees and wooden structures.

Wrecker:

One who lures a vessel to destruction, as by a display of lights on a rocky coastline, in order to plunder it.

A plunderer.

Zapotec:

A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people centered at Monte Albán in southern Mexico, whose civilization reached its height around A.D. 300-900.  

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