List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock
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This page lists almost all of the exclamations used by Captain Haddock as curses and insults in the translated, English version of Hergé's Tintin series (with definitions where possible).
Basic Oaths
- Billions of blue blistering barnacles
- Ten thousand thundering typhoons
- Bashi-bazouk (a 19th-century Turkish irregular mercenary soldier, notorious for brutality)
On various occasions
The Red Sea Sharks
- Billions of blue blistering barnacles
- Ten thousand thundering typhoons
- Arabesque
- Ectoplasm
- Troglodytes
- Sea-gherkins, Sea cucumbers
- Pickled herrings
- Visigoths
- Anacoluthons. Meaning per M Webster: "syntactical inconsistency or incoherence..."
- Filibuster
- Gallows bird
- Baboon
- Carpet-seller
- Paranoiac
- Pockmark
- Cannibal
- Duck-billed platypus
- Jellied-eel
- Bashi-bazouk
- Anthropophagus, same as Cannibal
- Cercopithecus, The Blue Monkey
- Psychopath
With the aid of a bullhorn
The Shooting Star
After a near collision with a ship
- Pirates
- Shipwreckers
- Sea-lice, marine Isopods
- Filibusters
- Hoodlums
- Road-hogs
- Freshwater Swabs
After finding out why his ship can't refuel
- Gang of thieves
- Black marketeers
- Monopolizers
- Ophicleides, an old instrument resembling a bass tuba
- Colocynths, the spongy bitter fruit of the colocynth that yields a powerful laxative or purgative
- Patagonian Pirates, lilly-livered landlubbers
Sent in a morse code message
- Gangsters
- Twisters
- Traitor
- Woodlice
- Turncoats
- Shipwreckers
- Mountebanks
- Moujiks
- Rhizopods and Ectoplasms
King Ottokar's Sceptre
Haddock does not appear in King Ottokar's Sceptre.
The Black Island
Haddock does not appear in The Black Island.
Tintin in Tibet
Toward the Yeti
The Crab with the Golden Claws
In pursuit of bandits who shot his bottle of rum
- Swine
- Jellyfish
- Tramps
- Troglodytes
- Toffee-noses
- Savages
- Aztecs
- Toads
- Carpet-sellers
- Iconoclasts
- Rats
- Ectoplasms
- Freshwater swabs
- Bashi-bazouks
- Cannibals
- Caterpillers
- Cowards
- Baboons
- Parasites
- Pockmarks
In the crook's hideout, drunk on wine fumes
- Treason
- Revenge
- Twister
- Heretic
- Slave-trader
- Technocrat
- Buccaneer
- Vegetarian
- Politician
- Pirate
- Corsair
- Harlequin
- Hydrocarbon
- Aborigine
- Polynesian
- Gyroscope
As he chases a black criminal with a wine bottle
- Revenge
- Blackamoor
- Anthracite
- Coconut
- Fuzzy-wuzzy, slang for the Sudanese, (and title of a Kipling poem about their soldiers)
- Cannibal
- Anthropithecus, Anthropithecus troglodytes, a type of Chimpanzee.
- Blackbird
- Nicompoop
- Anacoluthon
- Invertebrate
- Liquorice
The Castafiore Emerald
After being bitten by a parrot
External link
- Alphabetical list of Captain Haddock's Curses (http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html)fr:Liste des insultes du capitaine Haddock sv:Kapten Haddock