This page lists almost all of the "Swearwords" used by Captain Haddock in Hergé'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
After