List of Swearwords used by Captain Haddock

This page lists almost all of the "Swearwords" used by Captain Haddock in Herg�'s Tintin series (with definitations where possible).

Table of contents

1 Basic Oaths
2 The Red Sea Sharks
3 The Shooting Star

Basic Oaths

Billions of blue blistering barnacles
Ten thousand thundering typhoons
Bashi-bazouk

The Red Sea Sharks

Billions of blue blistering barnacles
Ten thousand thundering typhoons
arabesque
bash�i�ba�zouk. He uses this word a lot.
Ectoplasm
Troglodytes
Sea-gherkins
Pickled herrings
Visigoths
Anacoluthons. It is possible that he means autochthon.

Directed at a slave-trader

Filibuster
Gallows bird
Baboon
Carpet-seller
Paranoiac
Pockmark
Cannibal
Duck-billed platypus
Jellied-eel
Bashi-bazouk, a 19th-century Turkish irregular mercenary soldier, notorious for brutality
Anthropophagus, same as Cannibal
Cercopithecus, The Blue Monkey
Pyschopath

With the aid of a bullhorn,

Pirate
Ectoplasm
Coelacath
Vulture
Body-snatcher
Ostrogoth
Vandal

The Shooting Star

gangster
centipede

After a near collision with a ship

Pirates
Shipwreckers
Sea-lice
Filibusters
Hoodlums
Road-hogs
Freshwater Swabs

After finding out why his ship can't refuel

Gang of thieves
Black markeeters
Monopolizers
oph�i�clei�des, an old instrument resembling a bass tuba
col�o�cynths, the spongy bitter fruit of the colocynth that yields a powerful laxative or purgative