Rump-fed is a posterior-minded insult for someone whose rump looks amply nourished — less than callipygian, in other words. It’s one of the many mix-and-match barbs in the Shakespeare Insult Generator, which can turn out combinations such as thou unwiped, rump-fed measle; here unwiped simply means unclean. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Unwiped, Rump-Fed Measle,” A Mock-Shakespearean Jab”
Grant thou unwiped, rump-fed measle.
What?
There’s no end to this.
Will we ever stop doing the Shakespeare insults?
It’s going to be every episode from here to the end of time.
Well, yes, there are 150,000 potential insults from the Shakespeare insult generator, and I’m going to use some more.
What is this?
What am I?
Unwiped, rump-fed, measles.
So unwiped means unclean.
Yes.
And then rump-fed.
Rump-fed means your rump is well-fed.
You haven’t missed too many meals.
I have a beautiful bum, you’re saying.
Yeah, well, I always say that, don’t I?
Crevacious, yes.
Corvigian.
Does he not have in his book any complimentary stuff that Shakespeare might say?
It’s all insults.
Well, that would be a whole other book, wouldn’t it?
And not as fun.
Yeah.
Not nearly as much fun.
Come have fun with us.
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