It’s weird, but Elizabethans used dogs in a lot of insults.
There were more half-wild street dogs than family pet dogs… often considered dirty, mean, and untrustworthy, if you listen to the sayings and insults.
Consider lie like a dog, thieving dog, dog-spittle, dog’s bollocks, and whoreson dog , which was popular in Shakespeare and isn’t on this list!
Rich people had hunting dogs, but they weren’t usually house pets. They were sometimes kept hungry, to make them fierce hunters, and children were kept away.
Fancy ladies had pampered little pet dogs, but I don’t know whether they were given the sort of affection we feel for pets today.
A fine list. A true Shakespeare scholar would be able to name, for each insult, the play (or sonnet, or whatever), the act, possibly the scene, and perhaps even the speaker and the object. Not me, certainly. But a true scholar.
Not me either, though I learned some of them, mostly out of context, in the years I did Renaissance Faire.
I’ve read a lot of Shakespeare, but I think you have to memorize it all to know where every insult goes, so you’d have to be a very busy actor… Or possibly a nut case.
Yeah, ok, I may be a nut case (the jury is still out) but I guess not in that direction.
I do believe that’s Eris, a borzoi (or Russian wolfhound) in Virginia, whose owners think (with AFAIK no proof whatsoever) that she has the longest nose of any dog in the world.
She was all over the internet a year or two ago (though I admit I just had to look up her name again.)
Well darn! I really am a day late & a difference short. I got 10, but apparently, one of mine was just an artifact of another one. And I still had 10 minutes of piano time to search.
10! Thank you for the nice long musical serenade. I thought I was going to be a day late & a difference short, but the music kept playing and I kept looking.
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That’s a pretty good list. But why is “doghearted” an insult?
It’s weird, but Elizabethans used dogs in a lot of insults.
There were more half-wild street dogs than family pet dogs… often considered dirty, mean, and untrustworthy, if you listen to the sayings and insults.
Consider lie like a dog, thieving dog, dog-spittle, dog’s bollocks, and whoreson dog , which was popular in Shakespeare and isn’t on this list!
Rich people had hunting dogs, but they weren’t usually house pets. They were sometimes kept hungry, to make them fierce hunters, and children were kept away.
Fancy ladies had pampered little pet dogs, but I don’t know whether they were given the sort of affection we feel for pets today.
It was a dog’s life.
‘Dog’s bollocks’ isn’t an insult in the UK nowadays, actually the reverse.
Thanks!
Quite possible that it never was negative, and the person who used it all the time at Renaissance Faire had it wrong…
I was remembering him calling people that, but he wasn’t English, and when I think about it, I’m not sure “bollocks” is that old anyway.
I only remember it cos it made me laugh.
We weren’t supposed to use such rude words but most people here didn’t know what it meant, and I wasn’t sure he did either.
A fine list. A true Shakespeare scholar would be able to name, for each insult, the play (or sonnet, or whatever), the act, possibly the scene, and perhaps even the speaker and the object. Not me, certainly. But a true scholar.
Not me either, though I learned some of them, mostly out of context, in the years I did Renaissance Faire.
I’ve read a lot of Shakespeare, but I think you have to memorize it all to know where every insult goes, so you’d have to be a very busy actor… Or possibly a nut case.
Yeah, ok, I may be a nut case (the jury is still out) but I guess not in that direction.
Not every nut case knows everything that only a nut case would know.
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ML, I think Nighthawks posted this just for you.
🙂
Awww. Hey buddy, why the long face?
Oh my god! Is that thing real? With that much space for sent receptors he could probably be able to smell worms. Underground!
I do believe that’s Eris, a borzoi (or Russian wolfhound) in Virginia, whose owners think (with AFAIK no proof whatsoever) that she has the longest nose of any dog in the world.
She was all over the internet a year or two ago (though I admit I just had to look up her name again.)
NOOOOOOSE!!!
and thank you, NH!
I believe “SCHNOZZZZZ” might be more applicable to this one.
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“Who are you callin’ a ‘booby’?”
cute!
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Some rather interesting modes of transportation being forecast here.
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I was glad when I scrolled down to see that the kid’s feet are on the ground.
me, too!
Norman Rockwell
All the girls love a guy in uniform.
I still want to know who’s pedaling the doggone bicycle. 😉
And the tires are just a wee bit out of round.
I was hoping it was just propped up and standing still… but I don’t see a stand. Uh oh.
I got seven. That’s enough for tonight. Good night people and pets.
That is one funky-looking cat at the top of that dog-pile. I don’t believe I have ever seen that coloration in anything outside of maybe a bird.
Oh, and I think I have found all ten.
Good evening (or morning, if that’s when you see this) Cleo Puzzle People, and even you Non-puzzle People, if that’s what floats yer boat…
As long as you’re here, that’s what counts.
Are you ready? Or are you already saying “about time!”?
In any case, I have a solution for you… I suppose you’ve guessed that I mean a solution to the puzzle.
All you have to do is try your hardest to find all 10, then it’s perfectly fine to…
missed 3. darn…
Well darn! I really am a day late & a difference short. I got 10, but apparently, one of mine was just an artifact of another one. And I still had 10 minutes of piano time to search.
It took a while, but I found all ten.
dark chocolate with almonds
my all-time favorite!
Not in any of the waters near me.
My skinny dipping days are behind me.
What’s behind me is one reason I don’t want to go skinny-dipping.
As long as nobody watches…
10! Thank you for the nice long musical serenade. I thought I was going to be a day late & a difference short, but the music kept playing and I kept looking.