My words are my armour, my blade, my security. I use their definitive purpose to strike, to wound, to ****. I have no need to use an actual knife, my rapier bladed tongue cuts with an accuracy of a surgeons scalpel. If you have no parry, or riposte, I'll Épée a thrusting word like the sword. Your entire being is a valid target, I cannot fight with fists, I cannot crush you physically, but mentally I will make you my target for words.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones! but words will never hurt me"
Oh, but they will hurt. Long after a scar has healed, a cut has scabbed, words will linger, haunt and remind your every waking moment of the day you picked a fight, a dalliance if you will with a lexicographer.