Slang
Ladies and Gents, may I present The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A dictonary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence.
Who could not love a book that includes:-
NONSENSE. Melting butter in a wig
TO MILK THE PIGEON. To endeavour at impossibilities
QUEER AS DICK'S HATBAND. Out of order, without knowing one's disease.
GREEN SICKNESS. The disease of maids occasioned by celibacy. (dude, I think I have that one.)
GAYING INSTRUMENT. The penis.
RAPPER. A swinging great lie.
TYBURN BLOSSOM. A young thief or pickpocket, who in time will ripen into fruit borne by the deadly never-green.
MAWKES. A vulgar slattern.
TRUNDLERS. Peas.
Who could not love a book that includes:-
NONSENSE. Melting butter in a wig
TO MILK THE PIGEON. To endeavour at impossibilities
QUEER AS DICK'S HATBAND. Out of order, without knowing one's disease.
GREEN SICKNESS. The disease of maids occasioned by celibacy. (dude, I think I have that one.)
GAYING INSTRUMENT. The penis.
RAPPER. A swinging great lie.
TYBURN BLOSSOM. A young thief or pickpocket, who in time will ripen into fruit borne by the deadly never-green.
MAWKES. A vulgar slattern.
TRUNDLERS. Peas.