Archive for April, 2009

crook shanks

Anne | April 10th, 2009 | No Comments »

A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-legged Walk; his legs grew in the night, therefore could not see to grow straight; jeering sayings of men with crooked legs.

-From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Also, the name of a cat. ;)

slush

Anne | April 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

Greasy dish-water, or the skimmings of a pot where fat meat has been boiled.

-From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

crop

Anne | April 8th, 2009 | No Comments »

To be knocked down for a crop; to be condemned to be hanged. Cropped, hanged.

-From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

hickey

Anne | April 7th, 2009 | No Comments »

Tipsey; quasi, hiccuping.

-From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.