A superior person's insults

If you were challenged, say as a party game, to create a string of insults, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, could you do it? I might begin like this: "You are an asinine, bigoted, corrupt, dim-witted ...," but I would soon run out of gas.

Yet in the 1979 book The Superior Person's Book of Words, Peter Bowler provides just such a string. And not only that, but each word in his string is probably a word you have never used in your life and could only guess at its meaning. Here it is:

"Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalia, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte."

Even the speller on my computer  hasn't heard of most of those words. But what do they mean? Here's Bowler's translation:

"Sir, you are an impotent, conceited, obscene, hairy-buttocked, brainless, wicked, toadying, goatish, indecent, stable-smelling, hunchbacked, thick-lipped, stinking, turnip-shaped, feeble-minded, pimply, trashy, repellent. smarmy, foul-mouthed, greasy, gluttonous, loathsome, wooden-headed, whining, extremely low form of animal life."

That's telling him..