Captain Haddock's Curses - insults and exclamations used by Captain Haddock
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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 blue blistering boiled and barbecued barnacles [The Seven Crystal Balls, p14, frame 10]! Billions of billious barbecued blue blistering barnacles! Billions of Bilious Blue BlisteringBarnacles! 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! Blithering Bombardier! Blistering Barnacles! Blistereing blundering bird-brain [Prisoners p9 E4]! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Blunderbuss! Bodysnatcher! Bootlegger! Borgia! Bougainvillea! Brat! Breathalyser! Brigands! Brutes! Bucaneers! Bully! Butcher! [37]
C
Cachinnating cockatoo! Cannibals! Carpetsellers! Caterpillars! Centipede! Cercopithecus! Certified Diplodocuses [Calculus Affair, p30]! Coconut[Crab p58 panel 5]! Coelcanth! Colocynths! Corsair! Cowards! Crabapples! Cro-Magnon! Crooks! Cushion footed quadrupeds! Cyclotron! [17]
D
Diplodocus! Dizzards [Unicorn p54 C1/frame 7]! Dogs! Doryphore! Doryphores! Duck-billed platypus! Dunderheaded coconuts! Dynamiter! [8]
E
Ectoplasms! Egoists! [2]
F
Fancy-dress Facist! Fancy-dress Fatima! Fancy-dress freebooter [Unicorn p24 C1]! Fatfaces! Filibuster(s)! Fourlegged Cyrano! Freshwater pirate [Unicorn p24 C1]! Freshwater swabs! Fuzzy wuzzy! [9]
G
Gallows-fodder! Gangof Theives! Gangsters! Gibbering anthropoids! Great flat-footed grizzly bear! Gobbledgook! Gogglers! Goosecaps! Guano-gatherers [Prisoners p9 A1]! Gyroscope! [10]
H
Harlequin! Heretic! Highwayman! Hydrocarbon! [4]
I
Iconoclasts! Idiots! ... you, Imitation Incas, you [Prisoners p47 B2]! You, interplantary goat, you [Explorers on the Moon p62 C3]! [4]
J
Jellied eel! Jellyfish! Jobbernowl [Tibet p60 B2]! [3]
K
Kleptomaniacs! Koua Kouakouin Kouinkouin Koua Kouin Koua [Emerald p30 panel 8]! [2]
L
Lily-livered landlubbers! Liquorice[Crab p59 panel 2]! Loathsome brute! Logarithim! Lubberscum! [5]
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! MisterMule! 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]! Pithecanthropus [Unicorn p24 C1]! Pockmarks! Politican! Poltroons! Polygraphs! Polynesian! Profiteers! Psychopath! Purple profiteering jellyfish! Pyrographers! Pyromaniac! [20]
R
Raggle taggle ruminants! Rapscallion! Rats! Revenge [Crab p58 panel 4]! Rhizopods! RKRPXZKRMTFRZ! Road roller [Secret of the Unicorn]! Roadhogs! [8]
S
Saucy tramp! Savages! Scorpion! Sea-gherkin(s)! Sea-lice! Sea lion! [Prisoners p9, frame 6] Shipwreckers! Slavertrader! Slubberdegullions! Sparrows! Spitfire! Steamroller! Stoolpigeon! Subtropical sea-louse! Swine! [15]
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! Tribe of Polynesians [Destination Moon p5 D1]! Troglodytes! Turncoats! Twister! Two-timing Troglodytes! [15]
U
Ungulate (see O for odd-toed ungulate)
V
Vandal! Vegetarian! Vermicellis! Viper! Visigoths! Vulture! [6]
W
Weevils! Whippersnapper! Wildcat! Woodlice! [4]
Y
Young monkey [Tibet p54 A4]! [1]
Z
Zapotecs! [1]
Total count: 211
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