List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock
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This page lists almost all of the "Swearwords", exclamations, and insults used by Captain Haddock 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

The Red Sea Sharks

• Billions of blue blistering barnacles
• Ten thousand thundering typhoons
• Arabesque
• Ectoplasm
• Troglodytes
• Sea-gherkins
• 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
• Pyschopath

With the aid of a bullhorn,

• Pirate
• Ectoplasm
• Coelacath - Is this a typo of Coelacanth?
• 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 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.

The Crab with the Golden Claws

After his bottle of Rum is shot by bandits

• 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 one of the criminals (a Negro) with a wine bottle,

• Revenge
• Blackamoor
• Anthracite
• Coconut
• Fuzzy-wuzzy
• Cannibal
• Anthropithecus, anthropithecus troglodytes, a type of Chimpanzee.
• Blackbird
• Nicompoop
• Anacoluthon
• Invertebrate
• Liquorice

The Castafiore Emerald

After being bitten by a parrot

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

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