9/19/2023 0 Comments Bubble trouble animal jam![]() ![]() Bubble AroundĪ verbal attack, generally made via the press. “Adroit after the manner of a brick," Forrester writes, "said even of the other sex, 'What a bricky girl she is.'” 10. Bow wow muttonĪ naval term referring to meat so bad “it might be dog flesh.”īrave or fearless. Nineteenth-century sailor slang for “A riotous holiday, a noisy day in the streets.” 8. Low London phrase meaning “to thrash thoroughly,” possibly from the French battre a fin. This phrase originated in London in 1882, and means “perfect, complete, unapproachable.” 6. The 'bag' refers to the gut which contained the chopped meat.” 5. ![]() Bags o’ MysteryĪn 1850 term for sausages, “because no man but the maker knows what is in them. Thieves used this term to indicate that they wanted “to go out the back way.” 4. “He’s very arf’arf’an’arf," Forrester writes, "meaning he has had many ‘arfs,’” or half-pints of booze. Arfarfan'arfĪ figure of speech used to describe drunken men. AfternoonifiedĪ society word meaning “smart.” Forrester demonstrates the usage: “The goods are not 'afternoonified' enough for me.” 2. "‘Passing English’ ripples from countless sources, forming a river of new language which has its tide and its ebb, while its current brings down new ideas and carries away those that have dribbled out of fashion." Forrester chronicles many hilarious and delightful words in Passing English we don't know how these phrases ever fell out of fashion, but we propose bringing them back. ![]() "Thousands of words and phrases in existence in 1870 have drifted away, or changed their forms, or been absorbed, while as many have been added or are being added," he writes in the book's introduction. In 1909, British writer James Redding Ware (who also wrote under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester) published Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase. ![]()
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