Captain Haddock’s curses, insults and exclamations

A

Aardvark!

Abecedarians!

Aborigine!

Addle-pated lumps of anthracite!

(old) Alcoholic!

Anachronisms!

Anacoluthons!

Antediluvian bulldozer [Tibet p60 B2]!

Anthracite!

Anthropithecus!

Anthropophagus!

Arabian Nightmare!

Artichokes!

Autocrats!

Aztecs!

B

Baboons!

Baby-snatchers!

Bagpipers!

Bald-headed budgerigar!

Bandits!

Bashi-bazouks!

Bath-tub Admiral!

Beast!

Belemnite!

Big-head [Tibet p35 B3]!

Billions of blue blistering boiled and barbecued barnacles [The Seven Crystal Balls, p14, frame 10]!

Billions of billious barbecued blue blistering barnacles!

Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles!

Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon [The Seven Crystal Balls]!

Billions of blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon [Tintin in Tibet, p11, frame 3.]!

Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles!

Black beetles!

Black Marketers!

Blackamoor!

Blackbird!

Blackguards!

Blithering Bombardier!

Blistering Barnacles!

Blistereing blundering bird-brain [Prisoners p9 E4]!

Bloodsuckers!

Blue blistering barnacles!

Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash!

Blunderbuss!

Bodysnatcher!

Bootlegger!

Borgia!

Bougainvillea!

Brat!

Breathalyser!

Brigands!

Brutes!

Bucaneers!

Bully! Butcher!

C

Cachinnating cockatoo!

Cannibals!

Carpetsellers!

Caterpillars!

Centipede!

Cercopithecus!

Certified Diplodocuses [Calculus Affair, p30]!

Coconut[Crab p58 panel 5]!

Coelcanth!

Colocynths!

Corsair!

Cowards!

Crabapples!

Cro-Magnon!

Crooks!

Cushion footed quadrupeds!

Cyclotron!

D

Diplodocus!

Dizzards [Unicorn p54 C1/frame 7]!

Dogs!

Doryphore!

Doryphores!

Duck-billed platypus!

Dunderheaded coconuts!

Dynamiter!

E

Ectoplasms!

Egoists!

F

Fancy-dress Facist!

Fancy-dress Fatima!

Fancy-dress freebooter [Unicorn p24 C1]!

Fatfaces!

Filibuster(s)!

Fourlegged Cyrano!

Freshwater pirate [Unicorn p24 C1]!

Freshwater swabs!

Fuzzy wuzzy!

G

Gallows-fodder!

Gangof Theives!

Gangsters!

Gibbering anthropoids!

Great flat-footed grizzly bear!

Gobbledgook!

Gogglers!

Goosecaps!

Guano-gatherers [Prisoners p9 A1]!

Gyroscope!

H

Harlequin!

Heretic!

Highwayman!

Hydrocarbon!

I

Iconoclasts!

Idiots!

... you, Imitation Incas, you [Prisoners p47 B2]!

You, interplantary goat, you [Explorers on the Moon p62 C3]!

J

Jellied eel!

Jellyfish!

Jobbernowl [Tibet p60 B2]!

K

Kleptomaniacs!

Koua Kouakouin Kouinkouin Koua Kouin Koua [Emerald p30 panel 8]!

L

Lily-livered landlubbers!

Liquorice[Crab p59 panel 2]!

Loathsome brute!

Logarithim!

Lubberscum!

M

Macrocephalic baboon!

Megacycle [Tibet p60 B3]!

Megacycle Pyromaniac!

Mameluke!

Miserable blundering barbecued blister!

Miserable earth worms!

Miserable miser!

Miserable molecule of mildew!

Misguided missles!

MisterMule!

Monopolizers!

Monster!

Morons!

Moujiks!

Mountebanks!

Musical morons!

N

Nanny Goat!

Nincompoop!

Nitwits!

Nitwitted ninepins!

Nyctalops!

O

Odd-toed ungulate!

Ophicleides!

Orangoutang!

Ostrogoth!

P

Pachyrhizus!

Parasites!

Patagonians!

Pestilential Pachyderm!

Phylloxera!

Pickled herrings!

Pirates!

Pithecanthropic montebanks!

Pithecanthropic pickpocket [Tibet p37 A3]!

Pithecanthropus [Unicorn p24 C1]!

Pockmarks!

Politican!

Poltroons!

Polygraphs!

Polynesian!

Profiteers!

Psychopath!

Purple profiteering jellyfish!

Pyrographers!

Pyromaniac!

R

Raggle taggle ruminants!

Rapscallion!

Rats!

Revenge [Crab p58 panel 4]!

Rhizopods!

RKRPXZKRMTFRZ!

Road roller [Secret of the Unicorn]!

Roadhogs!

S

Saucy tramp!

Savages!

Scorpion!

Sea-gherkin(s)!

Sea-lice!

Sea lion! [Prisoners p9, frame 6]

Shipwreckers!

Slavertrader!

Slubberdegullions!

Sparrows!

Spitfire!

Steamroller!

Stoolpigeon!

Subtropical sea-louse!

Swine!

Note: Squawking popinjay - in The Secret of the Unicorn, on page 24, Captain Francis Haddock says it to Red Rackham--but since Captain Archibald Haddock is narrating this to Tintin, some one may say that it is one of his many curse words. Also, a parrot says it in Red Rackham's Treasure on page 29. [NAB]

T

Technocrat!

Ten thousand thundering typhoons!

Terrapins!

Terrorists!

Thundering typhoons!

Tin hatted tyrants!

Toads!

Toffee-noses!

Traitors!

Tramps!

Tribe of Polynesians [Destination Moon p5 D1]!

Troglodytes!

Turncoats!

Twister!

Two-timing Troglodytes!

U

Ungulate - see O for odd-toed ungulate

V

Vandal!

Vegetarian!

Vermicellis!

Viper!

Visigoths!

Vulture!

W

Weevils!

Whippersnapper!



Wildcat!

Woodlice!

Y

Young monkey [Tibet p54 A4]!

Z

Zapotecs!

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Trivia

Bashi bazouk - this term was originally applied in Turkey to non-uniformed soldiers. It literally means a savage and brutal ruffian, and was popularized by Captain Haddock. [Mit Chowdhury]

Doryphore - Latin for lance wielder or spear carrier, is defined both as a pedantic and annoyingly persistent critic. (Oxford English Dictionary), and, in the French Wikipedia page, a variety of the Colorado Potato Beetle (Doryphora decemlineata). [DA]

See also

Additional curses found only in Turkish translations

Credits

Originally compiled by Jesper Jühne, and expanded by Irene Mar. Contributions from Gustav Gullberg, Olivia Bloch, Matthew Vernon, Ishaan, Som, Neal Austin Bhandarkar, Bryan Woolfolk, Rinya Singh, Ed Shoemaker, Captain Chester (and brother), Georgia, cooldude123, zaveri_tintin, Joe Gooden, Sheldon Serrao, Christopher Damon, X, rishabh, Nicholas Walker, Michael Grover, Manoj Balraj, Sunday (sundaymarch1056), Vincent Thieu, Ivan Hanigan, Lukas (Zonater) Rizvi, and David Arnson.

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