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From the simple ("dogs!", "rats!") to the scientific ("pithecanthropuses!") to the sublime ("vegetarian!"), you've just gotta love Captain Haddock of Tintin fame for his unique turn of phrase. I've tried to capture as many of his idiocyncratic curses as possible.

Last updated: 22 January 2002

Captian Haddocks Curses
  • Pirates!
  • Doryphores!
  • Gobbledygooks!
  • Filibusters!
  • Slubberdegullions!
  • Patagonians!
  • Vampires!
  • Sycophant!
  • Kleptomaniacs!
  • Egoists!
  • Tramps!
  • Monopolizers!
  • Pockmarks!
  • Belemnite!
  • Crooks!
  • Miserable earthworms!
  • Coconuts!
  • Harlequin!
  • Parasites!
  • Macrocephalic baboon!
  • Brutes!
  • Guano gatherer!
  • Pachyrhizus!
  • Toads!
  • Gyroscope!
  • Bougainvillea!
  • Bloodsuckers!
  • Nincompoop!
  • Shipwreckers!
  • Cyclone!
  • Gallows-fodder!
  • Politician!
  • Baboon!
  • Torturers!
  • Fuzzy-wuzzy!
  • Blackbird!
  • Mountebanks!
  • Cannibal!
  • Duck-billed platypus!
  • Black-beetles!
  • Ruffian!
  • Vermicellis!
  • Lily-livered bandicoots!
  • Rats!
  • Logarithm!
  • Cro-Magnon!
  • Freshwater swabs!
  • Beasts!
  • Bully!
  • Anthropophagus!
  • Pithecanthropuses!
  • Savages!
  • Gangsters!
  • Wreckers!
  • Vandal!
  • Carpet-sellers!
  • Numbskulls!
  • Gang of thieves!
  • Slave-trader!
  • Picaroons!
  • Visigoths!
  • Toffee-noses!
  • Anacoluthons!
  • Hydrocarbon!
  • Technocrat!
  • Buccaneer!
  • Traitors!
  • Caterpillars!
  • Odd-toed ungulate!
  • Woodlice!
  • Polynesian!
  • Swine!
  • Blackguards!
  • Vegetarian!
  • Dizzards!
  • Fancy-dress freebooters!
  • Centipede!
  • Sea-lice!
  • Ectoplasm!
  • Fat faces!
  • Artichokes!
  • Troglodytes!
  • Turncoats!
  • Bashi-bazouks!
  • Olympic Athlete!
  • Ectoplasmic Byproduct!
  • Balkan Beetle!
  • Two-timing Tartar Twisters!
  • Terrapins!
  • Breathalyser!
  • Profiteers!
  • Abecedarians!
  • Vulture!
  • Phylloxera!
  • Dogs!
  • Hooligans!
  • Steamrollers!
  • Body-snatcher!
  • Ostrogoth!
  • Brigand!
  • Heretic!
  • Blackamoor!
  • Anthracite!
  • Black marketeers!
  • Ophicleides!
  • Dynamiter!
  • Pickled herrings!
  • Gibbering ghost!
  • Corsair!
  • Moujiks!
  • Rhizopods!
  • Bootlegger!
  • Gogglers!
  • Villain!
  • Aborigine!
  • Bagpipers!
  • Pyrographers!
  • Crab-apples!
  • Goosecaps!
  • Aztecs!
  • Paranoiac!
  • Twister!
  • Vagabonds!
  • Sea-gherkins!
  • Road-hogs!
  • Hi-jackers!
  • Zapotecs!
  • Cercopithecus!
  • Toads!
  • Psychopath!
  • Jellied-eel!
  • Liquorice!
  • Coelacanth!
  • Invertebrate!
  • Nyctalops!
  • Mameluke!
  • Dipsomaniac!
  • Diplodocus!
  • Cowards!
  • Megalomaniac!
  • Highwayman!
  • Autocrats!
  • Bandit!
  • Nitwits!
  • Polygraphs!
  • Iconoclast!
  • Orangoutang!
  • Squawking popinjay! *
  • Prattling porpoise! *
  • Scoffing braggart! *

* These curses actually come from an equally hot-tempered ancestor of Captain Haddock: Sir Francis Haddock (The Secret of the Unicorn).




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