Vulgar words in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan (Page 1)

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ass x 3
blockhead x 1
brain x 1
buffoon x 4
cuss x 1
            
damn x 1
hussy x 4
make love x 1
            

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Why, you forward little hussy, how dare you?

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Why, you impudent little hussy- LISA.

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I see your difficulty, but with a fairy brain you should seek an intellectual sphere of action.

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Her honeymoon With that buffoon At seven commences, so you shun her!

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Free as a tethered ass!

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(Giving their helmets to attendants) Arac: This tight-fitting cuirass Is but a useless mass, It's made of steel, And weighs a deal, This tight-fitting cuirass Is but a useless mass, A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass, So off, so off goes that cuirass.

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Who should have inherited your title and, with it, its cuss.

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Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, Blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, Shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, Sniffler, snuffler, wailer, weeper, Earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil!

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MRS. P. I'm no saucy minx and giddy- Hussies such as them abound- But a clean and tidy widdy Well be-known for miles around!

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That's all very well, but I can't throw myself into a part that has already lasted a twelvemonth, when I have to make love to my father.

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King: (aside) Damn!

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Zara: And you permit this insolent buffoon to caricature you in a pointless burlesque!

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Do they not say that a live ass is better than a dead lion?

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a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon (SONG) Point POINT Oh!

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a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!

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[Kissing LEONARD] WILFRED Come away from him, thou hussy- thou jade- thou kissing, clinging cockatrice!

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