You know how sometimes it just makes you feel better when you've said a word or two to someone in anger? Words developed to help us express feelings—and release feelings (and some words just by their very sound are better able to do that than others). With some friends, practice aloud—at each other with feeling!—the insults below that characters from Comedy sling at one another. If the meaning of a world is not clear, don't get stuck! Keep repeating the insult and you'll be closer to its meaning than you might think.

• I shall break that merry sconce of yours. 1.2.79-80
• Dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth? 2.2.22
• When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport. 2.2.30
• There's many a man hath more hair than wit. 2.2.81-82
• Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot. 2.2.194
• If thou art chang'd to aught, 'tis to an ass. 2.2.199
• I think thou art an ass. 3.1.15
• Mome, malthorse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! 3.1.32
• She's the kitchen wench, and all grease. 3.2.93-96
• I warrant her rags and the tallow in them will burn a Poland winter. 3.2.96-97
• [She is] swart like my shoe, but her face nothing like so clean kept. 3.2.100-1
• She sweats, a man may go over-shoes in the grime of it. 3.2.101-2
• She is spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her. 3.2.111-13
• He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
  Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
  Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind. 4.2.19-22
• Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass. 4.4.25-26
• The fiend is strong in him. 4.4.105
• [What a] mountain of mad flesh! 4.4.152