-Victorian Slang Part Four- This is your favorite Kawaii uw..
Published: August 31, 2020 at 3:51:18 PM
-Victorian Slang Part Four-
This is your favorite Kawaii uwu ceiling fan bringing you some more fun facts. Did you know that there were many other slang words used in the Victorian era? These are some more slang words that were used.
1. PARISH PICK-AXE
A prominent nose.
2. PODSNAPPERY
This term, Forrester writers, describes a person with a "wilful determination to ignore the objectionable or inconvenient, at the same time assuming airs of superior virtue and noble resignation.”
3. POKED UP
Embarrassed.
4. POWDERING HAIR
An 18th century tavern term that means "getting intoxicated.”
5. RAIN NAPPER
An umbrella.
6. SAUCE-BOX
The mouth.
7. SHAKE A FLANNIN
Why say you're going to fight when you could say you're going to shake a flannin instead?
8. SHOOT INTO THE BROWN
To fail. According to Forrester, "The phrase takes its rise from rifle practice, where the queer shot misses the black and white target altogether, and shoots into the brown i.e., the earth butt."
9. SKILAMALINK
Secret, shady, doubtful.
10. SMOTHERING A PARROT
Drinking a glass of absinthe neat; named for the green color of the booze.
11. SUGGESTIONIZE
A legal term from 1889 meaning "to prompt.”
12. TAKE THE EGG
To win.
13. UMBLE-CUM-STUMBLE
According to Forrester, this low class phrase means "thoroughly understood."
14. WHOOPERUPS
A term meaning "inferior, noisy singers" that could be used liberally today during karaoke sessions.
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