1811 Vulgar Tongue

A lady’s waiting-maid.

Merriam-Webster

A lady’s personal maid.

Void of wit.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Jenna Petersen sent me a link to the Stuff On My Cat website a couple weeks ago, and it’s absolutely hilarious if you are a cat owner or lover. I decided to have a bit of fun with the concept and with Jenna, so I posed my boys with Jenna’s “stuff.”

Couldn’t resist throwing mine on there too. Heh. Bob looks pleased, doesn’t he?

An abbreviation of housewife, but now always used as a term of reproach; as, How now, hussy? or She is a light hussy.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.