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Find yourself tempted to say that effin word too often? Modern english is rather unimaginative when it comes to expletives, contenting itself with a paucity of four letter equivalents for the range of human distress.
Elizabethans took a delight with language, weaving together terms to form stinging phrases of wit. As a faire worker, these equivalents are not only fun, but don't make parents with children glare at you. You could say fie (f-eye) or you could swear by God's teeth or wounds (Z'wounds). As a tradesman, you might swear by your hammer or tongs, or any other object of untarnished purity. (Good Elizabethans would not, as a rule, swear by Odin's beard or similar heresy.) Should that eff-word be particularly required, the learned Elizabethan would employ the common verb swive. Humorous modern effects result from the application of terms such as pig farker, which of course means pig farmer and is not an insult at all.
Or to create your own curses, memorize some choice terms from the list below, two adjectives and a noun minimum per curse please.
Some samples:
Thou tottering base-court moldwarp...
Thou cockered base-court gudgeon...
Thou lumpish plume-plucked moldwarp...
Thou fobbing dizzy-eyed varlet...
Thou goatish plume-plucked puttock...
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 artless base-court apple-john bawdy bat-fowling baggage beslubbering beef-witted barnacle bootless beetle-headed bladder churlish boil-brained boar-pig cockered clapper-clawed bugbear clouted clay-brained bum-bailey craven common-kissing canker-blossom currish crook-pated clack-dish dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb droning doghearted codpiece errant dread-bolted death-token fawning earth-vexing dewberry fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker goatish fly-bitten fustilarian gorbellied folly-fallen giglet impertinent fool-born gudgeon infectious full-gorged haggard jarring guts-griping harpy loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger mangled hell-hated jolthead mewling idle-headed lewdster paunchy ill-breeding lout pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie puking knotty-pated malt-worm puny milk-livered mammet quailing motley-minded measle rank onion-eyed minnow reeky plume-plucked miscreant roguish pottle-deep moldwarp ruttish pox-marked mumble-news saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg spongy rude-growing pignut surly rump-fed puttock tottering shard-borne pumpion unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane vain spur-galled scut venomed swag-bellied skainsmate villainous tardy-gaited strumpet warped tickle-brained varlet wayward toad-spotted vassal weedy urchin-snouted whey-face yeasty weather-bitten wagtail