In common speech
You are crude, dull-minded, and ultimately a vain, conceited fool.
A quarrelsome instrument
Tongue & Dagger
Choose thy grievance. Sharpen thy tongue.
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Commission the blade
What offense demands an answer?
The cutShakespearean vocabulary · newly forged
“Thou artless, beef-witted coxcomb!”
Why it cuts
The vocabulary targets dullness, empty confidence, and defective thought.
Anatomy of the wound
artless
Crude, unskilled, or without ingenuity.
Denies the target even the dignity of craft.beef-witted
Dull-minded; possessed of a heavy, sluggish intellect.
Replaces the brain with an unpromising cut of meat.coxcomb
A vain, conceited fool; also a jester’s cap.
Crowns the target as royalty of idiocy.