Top 10 rare and amusing insults

Want to cut someone deep? Try calling him a cockalorum. Wait, you don’t know what a cockalorum is? Why it’s a “boastful and self-important person; a strutting little fellow.” Merriam-Webster collected 10 of these old-timey insults. Amusing stuff.

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