Welcome to the first online list of Captain Haddock’s vocabulary of insults. I compiled this list in 1997 from the official (ie no Alph-Art, Lake of Sharks, etc) English-language editions of Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin. The reason? I had heard of other Tintinophiles doing the same thing throughout the world yet hadn’t seen a complete list myself, so I created my own.
Please note that when reading these following insults, you may be offended, although not for the reasons you'd expect. Tintin books were written over many years, and hence some of the following "insults" may appear dated in so far as political correctness is concerned. Some of the following words, such as "Aborigines" and "Polynesian", are not what people would often use as insults. This is not to say that Hergé was racist in any way; he merely chose unusual and often exotic words that could fill the angry mouth of an often inebriated old sea-dog clutching for satisfaction. Part of the humour of these Haddock insults is how unlike they are to anything else an angry man would shout. To this day I have never heard anyone use "Bashibazouk" without reference to Tintin, so please don't take this list to heart. The following words have been included in this "insult vocabulary" for academic or freak purposes, depending on your level of honesty.
Please e-mail any comments to matt_watts@bigpond.com.au.
| Abecedarians |
| Abominable Snowman |
| Aborigine |
| Addle-pated lumps of anthracite |
| Alcoholic |
| Anachronisms |
| Anacoluthon |
| Antediluvian bulldozer |
| Anthracite |
| Anthropithecus |
| Anthropophagus |
| Arabesque |
| Arabian-nightmare |
| Artichokes |
| Autocrats |
| Aztecs |
| Baboon |
| Baby-snatcher |
| Bagpipes |
| Bandits |
| Barefaced-liar |
| Bashibazouks |
| Bath-tub admiral |
| Beast |
| Beetle |
| Belemnite |
| Big-head |
| Bird-brain |
| Blackamoor |
| Black-beetle |
| Blackbird |
| Blackguards |
| Body-snatchers |
| Bonehead |
| Bootleggers |
| Borgia |
| Bougainvillea |
| Brat |
| Breathalyser |
| Brigand |
| Brontosaurus |
| Buccaneer |
| Bully |
| Cachinnating-cockatoo |
| Cannibals |
| Carpathian |
| Carpathian-bashibazouks |
| Carpet-sellers |
| Caterpillars |
| Centipede |
| Cercopithecuses |
| Cheeky |
| Coconut |
| Coelacanth |
| Coleoptera |
| Corsair |
| Cowards |
| Crab-apples |
| Cro-magnon |
| Crooks |
| Cut-throat |
| Cyclotron |
| Cyrano |
| Dictatorial-duck-billed-platypus |
| Dipsomaniac |
| Dizzards |
| Dogs |
| Donkey |
| Doryphores |
| Duck-billed-platypus |
| Dunderheaded coconuts |
| Dynamiter |
| Earthworms |
| Ectoplasms |
| Egoists |
| Ethelreds |
| Fancy-dress Fatima |
| Fancy-dress freebooters |
| Fat-faces |
| Fat-headed-fire-raisers |
| Filibusters |
| Flying saucer |
| Freshwater-swabs |
| Fuzzy-wuzzy |
| Gallows bird |
| Gallows-fodder |
| Gangsters |
| Gibbering ghost |
| Goat |
| Goggles |
| Goosecaps |
| Great flat-footed grizzly |
| Guano-gatherer |
| Guttersnipes |
| Gyroscope |
| Harlequin |
| Heretic |
| Highwayman |
| Hijackers |
| Hooligans |
| Hydrocarbon |
| Iconoclast |
| Ignoramus |
| Ill-mannered savages |
| Insolent porcupine |
| Invertebrate |
| Jabbernawl |
| Jackass |
| Jack-in-a-box |
| Jack-pudding |
| Jellied eel |
| Jellyfish |
| Jokers |
| Kleptomaniacs |
| Ku-Klux-Klan |
| Land lubbers |
| Lily-livered bandicoots |
| Liquorice |
| Little pest |
| Logarithm |
| Lubberly scum |
| Macrocephalic baboon |
| Mameluke |
| Marmot |
| Megacycle |
| Megalomaniac |
| Mineral-water-drinkers |
| Miserable blundering barbecued blister |
| Misguided missile |
| Mister Mule |
| Molecule of mildew |
| Monkey |
| Monster |
| Morons |
| Mountebanks |
| Musical morons |
| Nanny-goat |
| Nincompoop |
| Ninepins |
| Nitwit |
| Numskulls |
| Nyctalops |
| Odd-toed-ungulate |
| Old drunkard |
| Old witch |
| Orangoutang |
| Ostrogoth |
| Pachyrhizus |
| Paranoiac |
| Parasite |
| Patagonian-savages |
| Phylloxera |
| Picaroons |
| Pickled herring |
| Pirate |
| Pithecanthropic pickpocket |
| Pithecanthropuses |
| Pockmark |
| Politician |
| Poltroons |
| Polygraphs |
| Polynesian |
| Profiteers |
| Psychopath |
| Puffed-up-Punchinello |
| Punch-and-Judy-men |
| Purple jellyfish |
| Pyrographers |
| Pyromaniac |
| Quadrupeds |
| Rapscallion |
| Rats |
| Rattle-trap |
| Road-hogs |
| Rogue |
| Rubbernecks |
| Ruffian |
| Ruminants |
| Savages |
| Scallywags |
| Scamp |
| Scarecrow |
| Scoundrels |
| Sea-gherkins |
| Sea-lice |
| Shipwrecker |
| Slave-trader |
| Slot-machine |
| Slubberdegullions |
| Steamrollers |
| Stool pigeon |
| Swine |
| Sycophant |
| Tartar-twister |
| Technocrat |
| Teddy-bear |
| Terrapins |
| Terrorists |
| Thug |
| Thundering typhoon |
| Toads |
| Toffee-noses |
| Torturer |
| Traitor |
| Tramps |
| Troglodytes |
| Twister |
| Vagabonds |
| Vampire |
| Vandal |
| Vegetarian |
| Vermicelli |
| Viper |
| Visigoth |
| Vivisectionists |
| Vulture |
| Weevils |
| Wildcat |
| Wreckers |
| Wretch |
| Zapotecs |
This site © Matt Watts 1997-2006.matt_watts@bigpond.com.au
This site was last updated 17 April 2006.
This site does not necessarily reflect the view/s of any organisation/s and/or individual/s with which Matt Watts is associated.
Apologies to Hergé
