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- Academy Headache. “When art became fashionable to a severe degree this malady appeared,” Ware explained. “[N]ow applied generically to headaches acquired at any art galleries.”
- Afternoonified. A society word meaning “smart.” Ware demonstrated the usage: “The goods are not 'afternoonified' enough for me.”
- Amen Corner. A California term for a church.
- Arf’arf’an’arf. A figure of speech used to describe drunken men. “[He’s] very arfarfanarf,” Ware wrote, “meaning that he had many ‘arfs,’” or half-pints of booze.
Oct 30, 2015 · Below are the definitions for these Victorian insults, plus 14 more rude words that we definitely think should be integrated back into modern vernacular.
May 13, 2021 · Looking to spice up your writing in historical style? Check out more than 50 Victorian slang terms that just might be able to make a comeback. Why not resurrect a bit of Victorian English to give your work a lovely bit of flair? Victorian Era Slang Words.
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- Admiral of the red: someone who is fond of the drink (and has a red face to show for it)
- Bone box: mouth.
- Cold coffee: bad luck or misfortune.
- Colt’s tooth: an old person who wants to live life over, perhaps someone having what we would call today a midlife crisis.
- Afternoon Farmer
- Chuckle Head
- FOP, Foppish, Foppling, Fop-Doodle
- Gadabout
- Gentleman of Four Outs
- Go-Alonger
- Heathen Philosopher
- Spoony
- Unlicked Cub
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Insults
A laggard; a farmer who rises late and is behind in his chores; hence, anyone who loses his opportunities.
Much the same as “buffle head,” “cabbage head,” “chowder head,” “cod’s head” — all signifying stupidity and weakness of intellect; a fool.
A man of small understanding and much ostentation; a pretender; a man fond of show, dress, and flutter; an impertinent: foppery is derived from fop, and signifies the kind of folly which displays itself in dress and manners: to be foppish is to be fantastically and affectedly fine; vain; ostentatious; showy, and ridiculous: foppling is the diminuti...
A person who moves or travels restlessly or aimlessly from one social activity or place to another, seeking pleasure; a trapesing gossip; as a housewife seldom seen at home, but very often at her neighbor’s doors.
When a vulgar, blustering fellow asserts that he is a gentleman, the retort generally is, “Yes, a gentleman of four outs,” that is, without wit, without money, without credit, and without manners.
A simple, easy person, who suffers himself to be made a fool of, and is readily persuaded to any act or undertaking by his associates, who inwardly laugh at his folly.
One whose buttocks may be seen through his pocket-hole; this saying arose from the old philosophers, many of whom despised the vanity of dress to such a point as often to fall into the opposite extreme.
Foolish, half-witted, nonsensical; it is usual to call a very prating shallow fellow, a “rank spoon.”
A loutish youth who has never been taught manners; from the tradition that a bear’s cub, when brought into the world, has no shape or symmetry until its mother licks it into form with her tongue; ill-trained, uncouth, and rude.
“Being who belongs to the cult of non-virility”“Classical ignoramus”“Fragrant man swine”“Handshake like a wilted petunia”- Brett And Kate Mckay
Jul 21, 2015 · Here are an even dozen, pretty much forgotten slanglike words or sayings from the 19th century, rediscovered while delving in the archives — and with added guidance from James Maitman's 1891 ...
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Jan 16, 2013 · 1. Bull - taboo word because it was associated with sexual potency so polite people said cow brute, a gentleman cow, a top cow, or a seed ox. 2. Dad - euphemism for God as in dad-blame it. 3. Dickens - devil as in what the Dickens are you doing? 4. Inexpressibles - a euphemism for pants or trousers.
