List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Definition and Overview

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

• Pirate
• Ectoplasm
• Coelacanth
• Vulture
• Body-snatcher
• Ostrogoth
• Vandal

The Shooting Star

• Gangster
• Centipede

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

• Megacycle
• Pyromaniac

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

• Billions of bilious blue blistering barbequed barnacles
• Cannibal
• Bashi-bazouk
• Vampire

External link

• Alphabetical list of Captain Haddock's Curses (http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html)