Captain Haddock's Curses (Exclamations used by Captain Haddock)

TRIVIA
Bashi bazouk - this term was originally applied in Turkey to non-uniformed soldiers. It literally means a savage and brutal ruffian, and was popularized by Captain Haddock. [Mit Chowdhury]

Originally created by Jesper Jühne. Expanded by Irene Mar. Contributions from Gustav Gullberg, Olivia Bloch, Matthew Vernon, Ishaan, Som, Neal Austin Bhandarkar, Bryan Woolfolk, Rinya Singh, Ed Shoemaker, Captain Chester (and brother), Georgia, cooldude123 and zaveri_tintin.

Contributions are welcome; please remember to provide a reference for verification.

Last modified: 28 October 2007.

Total count: 195

A

Aardvark! Abecedarians! Aborigine! Addle-pated lumps of anthracite! (old) Alcoholic ! Anachronisms! Anacoluthons! Antediluvian bulldozer [Tibet p60 B2]! Anthracite! Anthropithecus! Anthropophagus! Arabian Nightmare! Artichokes! Autocrats! Aztecs! [15]

B

Baboons! Baby-snatchers! Bagpipers! Bald-headed budgerigar! Bandits! Bashi-bazouks! Bath-tub Admiral! Beast! Belemnite! Big-head [Tibet p35 B3]! Billions of billious barbecued blue blistering barnacles! Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles! Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon [The Seven Crystal Balls]! Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! Black beetles! Black Marketers! Blackamoor! Blackbird! Blackguards! Blistering Barnacles! Blistereing blundering birdbrain! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Blunderbuss! Bodysnatcher! Bootlegger! Borgia! Bougainvillea! Brat! Breathalyser! Brigands! Brutes! Bucaneers! Bully! Butcher! [35]

C

Cachinnating cockatoo! Cannibals! Carpetsellers! Caterpillars! Centipede! Cercopithecus! Coelcanth! Colocynths! Corsair! Cowards! Crabapples! Cro-Magnon! Crooks! Cushion footed quadrupeds! Cyclotron! [15]

D

Diplodocus! Dogs! Doryphore! Doryphores! Duck-billed platypus! Dunderheaded coconuts! Dynamiter! [7]

E

Ectoplasms! Egoists! [2]

F

Fancy-dress Facist! Fancy-dress Fatima! Fatfaces! Filibuster(s) ! Fourlegged Cyrano! Freshwater swabs! Fuzzy wuzzy! [7]

G

Gallows-fodder! Gang of Theives! Gangsters! Gibbering anthropoids! Great flat-footed grizzly bear! Gobbledgook! Gogglers! Goosecaps! Guano-gatherer! Gyroscope! [10]

H

Harlequin! Heretic! Highwayman! Hydrocarbon! [4]

I

Iconoclasts! Idiots! [2]

J

Jellied eel! Jellyfish! [2]

K

Kleptomaniacs! [1]

L

Lily-livered landlubbers! Loathsome brute! Logarithim! Lubberscum! [4]

M

Macrocephalic baboon! Megacycle [Tibet p60 B3]! Megacycle Pyromaniac! Mameluke! Miserable blundering barbecued blister! Miserable earth worms! Miserable miser! Miserable molecule of mildew! Misguided missles! Mister Mule! Monopolizers! Monster! Morons! Moujiks! Mountebanks! Musical morons! [16]

N

Nanny Goat! Nitwits! Nitwitted ninepins! Nyctalops! [4]

O

Odd-toed ungulate! Ophicleides! Orangoutang! Ostrogoth! [4]

P

Pachyrhizus! Parasites! Patagonians! Pestilential Pachyderm! Phylloxera! Pickled herrings! Pirates! Pithecanthropic montebanks! Pithecanthropic pickpocket [Tibet p37 A3]! Pithecanthropuses! Pockmarks! Politican! Poltroons! Polygraphs! Polynesian! Profiteers! Psychopath! Purple profiteering jellyfish! Pyrographers! Pyromaniac! [20]

R

Raggle taggle ruminants! Rapscallion! Rats! Rhizopods! RKRPXZKRMTFRZ! Road roller [Secret of the Unicorn]! Roadhogs! [7]

S

Saucy tramp! Savages! Scorpion! Sea-gherkin(s)! Sea-lice! Shipwreckers! Slavertrader! Slubberdegullions! Sparrows! Spitfire! Steamroller! Stoolpigeon! Subtropical sea-louse! Swine! [14]

Note: Squawking popinjay - in The Secret of the Unicorn, on page 24, Captain Francis Haddock says it to Red Rackham--but since Captain Archibald Haddock is narrating this to Tintin, some one may say that it is one of his many curse words. Also, a parrot says it in Red Rackham's Treasure on page 29. [NAB]

T

Technocrat! Ten thousand thundering typhoons! Terrapins! Terrorists! Thundering typhoons! Tin hatted tyrants! Toads! Toffee-noses! Traitors! Tramps! Troglodytes! Turncoats! Twister! Two-timing Troglodytes! [14]

U

Ungulate (see O for odd-toed ungulate)

V

Vandal! Vegetarian! Vermicellis! Viper! Visigoths! Vulture! [6]

W

Weevils! Whippersnapper! Wildcat! Woodlice! [4]

Z

Zapotecs! [1]

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