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# Outsourced monster speech.
#
# insult.txt contains the messages imps and demons apply in
# Crawl to insult players.
#
# For an explanation of how to read insult.txt and how to
# add new messages, see monster_speech.txt in the docs
# directory.
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imp_taunt
@run_or_give_up@, thou @generic_insult@!
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run_or_give_up
w:6
@run_away@
w:1
@give_up@
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demon_taunt
w:1
@run_away@, thou @generic_insult@!
w:2
@give_up@, thou @generic_insult@!
w:3
@demon_taunt_special@
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demon_taunt_special
Thy @body_or_spiritual_part@ shall be my @meal@!
@give_up@, thou tasty @meal@!
@run_away@ @whilst_thou_can@!
I @will_or_shall@ @feast_or_devour@ thy @body_or_spiritual_part@!
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# capitalised "flee" verbs
run_away
Away with thee
Back with thee
Begone
Bolt
Crawl home
Decamp
Escape
Flee
Fly
Get thee gone
Get thee hence
Give up
Go and return not
Leave
Quit
Remove thy stench
Return whence thou came
Run away
Scamper away
Scamper hence
Scamper home
Slither away
Slither hence
Slither home
Take thy face hence
Turn tail
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# capitalised synonyms for "give up"
give_up
Abandon hope
Accept thy failure
Accept thy fall
Accept thy doom
Admit defeat
Beg for mercy
Capitulate
Despair
Despond
Disclaim thyself
Embrace submission
Embrace thy dedition
Embrace thy doom
Embrace thy failure
Embrace thy fall
Face thy fugue
Face thy requiem
Flounder
Give in
Give up
Kneel
Quail
Quit
Surrender
Succumb
Submit
Tremble
Relinquish hope
Taste defeat
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whilst_thou_can
whilst thou can
whilst thou may
whilst thou are able
if wit thou hast
whilst thy luck holds
before doom catcheth thee
lest death find thee
whilst thou art whole
# screen vs. this for undead?
whilst life thou hast
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body_or_spiritual_part
w:3
@important_body_part@
w:1
@important_spiritual_part@
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will_or_shall
will
shall
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feast_or_devour
feast on
devour
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important_body_part
head
brain
heart
viscera
eyes
lungs
liver
throat
neck
skull
spine
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important_spiritual_part
soul
spirit
inner light
hope
faith
will
heart
mind
sanity
fortitude
life force
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meal
meal
breakfast
lunch
dinner
supper
repast
snack
victuals
refection
junket
luncheon
snackling
curdle
snacklet
mouthful
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# generic insults consist of three random parts
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generic_insult
@insult_adjective1@ @insult_adjective2@ @insult_noun@
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# adjective1, usually short and/or consisting of one word only
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insult_adjective1
w:5
@species_insult_adj1@
@insult general adj1@
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insult general adj1
artless
baffled
bawdy
beslubbering
bootless
bumbling
canting
churlish
cockered
clouted
craven
currish
dankish
dissembling
droning
ducking
errant
fawning
feckless
feeble
fobbing
foppish
froward
frothy
fulsome
gleeking
goatish
gorbellied
grime-gilt
horrid
hateful
impertinent
infectious
jarring
loggerheaded
lumpish
mammering
mangled
mewling
odious
paunchy
pribbling
puking
puny
qualling
quaking
rank
pandering
pecksniffian
plume-plucked
pottle-deep
pox-marked
reeling-ripe
rough-hewn
simpering
spongy
surly
tottering
twisted
unctious
unhinged
unmuzzled
vain
venomed
villainous
warped
wayward
weedy
worthless
yeasty
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# adjective1, Elf special
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insult elf adj1
weakly
sickly
frail
delicate
fragile
brittle
tender
mooning
painted
lily-hearted
dandy
featherweight
flimsy
rootless
spindly
puny
shaky
prissy
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# adjective1, Ghoul special
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insult ghoul adj1
# being old and mouldy
mildewed
mouldy
musty
stale
long-expired
# falling apart
worm-eaten
moth-eaten
corroded
leprous
cankerous
decaying
decomposing
deteriorating
infectious
diseased
wasted
rotting
stinking
putrescent
foul-smelling
foetid
gangrenous
foul-breathed
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# adjective2, usually longer and consisting of two words
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insult_adjective2
w:5
@species_insult_adj2@
@insult general adj2@
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insult general adj2
base-court
bat-fowling
beef-witted
beetle-headed
boil-brained
clapper-clawed
clay-brained
common-kissing
crook-pated
dismal-dreaming
ditch-delivered
dizzy-eyed
doghearted
dread-bolted
earth-vexing
elf-skinned
fat-kidneyed
fen-sucked
flap-mouthed
fly-bitten
folly-fallen
fool-born
full-gorged
guts-griping
half-faced
hasty-witted
hedge-born
hell-hated
idle-headed
ill-breeding
ill-nurtured
kobold-kissing
knotty-pated
limp-willed
milk-livered
miscreant
moon-mazed
motley-minded
moldwarp
mumble-news
nose-picking
nut-hook
onion-eyed
pigeon-egg
roguish
rude-growing
rump-fed
ruttish
saucy
shard-borne
sheep-biting
sow-suckled
spleeny
spur-galled
swag-bellied
tardy-gaited
tickle-brained
toad-spotted
toenail-biting
unchin-snouted
weather-bitten
weevil-witted
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# adjective2, Dwarf special
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insult dwarf adj2
dirt-grubbing
grit-sucking
muck-plodding
stone-broke
pelf-dandling
fault-botching
gravel-groveling
boodle-bothering
cabbage-coddling
rhino-raveling
thigh-biting
dirt-delving
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# adjective2, Kenku special
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insult kenku adj2
hollow-boned
feather-brained
beak-witted
hen-pecked
lightweight
frail-limbed
bird-brained
featherweight
pigeon-toed
crow-beaked
magpie-eyed
mallardish
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# adjective2, Mummy special
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insult mummy adj2
# pertaining to dryness and flammability
desiccated
dried
musty
flammable
inflammable
ignitable
combustible
smouldering
# pertaining to bandages
shrink-wrapped
crepe-taped
duct-taped
fraying
hand-wound
tightly wound
high-strung
straight-laced
w:30
@insult undead adj2@
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# adjective2, Vampire special
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insult vampire adj2
bat-flapping
blood-sucking
light-shying
pallid
sallow
cream-faced
whey-faced
anaemic
bloodless
exsanguinous
w:20
@insult undead adj2@
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# adjective2, undead special
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insult undead adj2
deathlike
lifeless
undead
corpse-like
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# noun of the insult
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insult_noun
w:5
@species_insult_noun@
@insult general noun@
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insult general noun
apple-john
baggage
bandersnitch
barnacle
beggar
bladder
boar-pig
bounder
bugbear
bum-bailey
canker-blossom
clack-dish
clam
clotpole
coxcomb
codpiece
death-token
dewberry
dingleberry
flap-bat
flax-wench
flirt-gill
foot-licker
fustilarian
giglet
gnoll-tail
gudgeon
guttersnipe
haggard
harpy
hedge-pig
hugger-mugger
joithead
lewdster
lout
maggot-pie
malt-worm
mammet
measle
mendicant
minnow reeky
mule
nightsoil
nobody
nothing
pigeon-egg
pignut
pimple
pustule
puttock
pumpion
ratsbane
scavenger
scut
serf
simpleton
skainsmate
slime mold
snaffler
snake-molt
strumpet
surfacer
tinkerer
tiddler
urchin
varlet
vassal
vulture
wastrel
wagtail
whey-face
wormtrail
yak-dropping
zombie-fodder
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# noun, small species special
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small_food
snackling
crunchlet
half-meal
supper-setting
snacklet
noshlet
morsel
mug-up
bite-bait
crunch-chow
snack-pap
grub
mouthful
half-pint
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# noun, Halfling special
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insult halfling noun
w:100
@small_food@
footstool
munchkin
side-stool
pudgelet
groundling
burrow-snipe
hole-bolter
low-roller
runt
peewee
mimicus
manikin
hop-o-thumb
knee-biter
burrow-botch
hole-pimple
hovel-pustule
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# noun, Spriggan special
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insult spriggan noun
w:100
@small_food@
rat-rider
quarter-pint
nissette
fizzle-flop
spell-botch
feeblet
weakling
pinchbeck-pixie
ankle-biter
bootstain
nano-nebbish
sopling
shrunken violet
sissy-prig
pussyfoot
creepsneak
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# noun, Centaur special
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insult centaur noun
crock
donkey
four-legs
hack
half-breed
horse-flesh
horse meat
horsey face
jade
mule
nag
nightmare
pony
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# noun, Minotaur special
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insult minotaur noun
bovine
briscut
bull-brain
cud-chewer
calf-wit
cretin
cow
cattle
horn-beast
meatloaf
meatball
mooer
rump-roast
veal
walking sirloin
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# noun, Mummy special
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insult mummy noun
dustbag
linensack
clothbag
tombling
mummylet
shroud
paper wrap
roll of bandages
bundle of gauze
wound roll
cotton waste
wrapping tissue
# susceptibility to fire
pyre
tinder
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# noun, Ghoul special
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insult ghoul noun
flesh wound
running sore
wreck
dirt collector
dust catcher
trash-dump
rubbish heap
garbage dump
walking corpse
corpse eater
scavenger
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