This site is on travel hiatus for the next three weeks, but I promise lots of goodies and pictures when I return.

That means Regency Word of the Day is on vacation for three weeks too. However, if you would like to suggest Regency words of the day under this post’s comments, they will be the first word of the day posts when I return!

Also, feel free to contact me on the contact page. I put in this caveat on the page though — “Please note however that I will be unavailable to respond until the middle of July due to traveling without an Internet connection. The good news is that someone is staying at my place with my cats during that time, or else they would eat me upon my return and I’d never be able to respond…”

So I thought maybe you’d like to see hungry, evil cats at work…

A toy-shop, a nick-nack-atory.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

For some reason nick-nack-atory makes me want to sing Mary Poppins tunes…

A jocular method of hobbling or bothering a troublesome teller of long stories: this is done by contradicting some very immaterial circumstance at the beginning of the narration, the objections to which being settled, others are immediately started to some new particular of like consequence; thus impeding, or rather not suffering him to enter into, the main story. Kittle pitchering is often practised in confederacy, one relieving the other, by which the design is rendered less obvious.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Love this.

A dancing-master, so called from his kit or cittern, a small fiddle, which dancing-masters always carry about with them, to play to their scholars. The kit is likewise the whole of a soldier’s necessaries, the contents of his knapsack: and is used also to express the whole of different commodities: as, Here, take the whole kit; i.e. take all.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.