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Another one of these. A horse godmother, according to The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, is "a large masculine woman, a gentlemanlike kind of lady". (Captain Grose also includes a definition for her younger counterpart who is a bit more familiar to modern folks, the tomboy).
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perusing the Good Book, the Scriptures, the Truth (Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue) and I finally found an old-timey word for teenager:
Honestly, petition to use this instead of teenager now.
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"Abbess, or Lady Abbess, a bawd, the mistress of a brothel."
In other words, the lady proprietor of a whorehouse. I'm not an etymologist so I don't know (etymology folks pipe in!) but I would imagine this is a cheeky inversion of an Abbess, who is the head of an Abbey or Cloister - in other words, the Nun in charge of running things.
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Lost Word Of The Day (85)
#Durham man -someone who is #knockkneed #mustard #lostwords #obscurewords #logophilia
The glorious city of Durham was once famous for more than its impressive cathedral and castle. It was also the home of the finest quality mustard, the brainchild of a Mrs Chalmers. It was so superior that it blew the socks off the previous stronghold of English mustard production, Tewkesbury.
In 1720 the enterprising Mrs Chalmers had invented a method for extracting the full flavour from mustard…
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Do you have any favorite bits of slang from that book that you noticed Pratchett using in discworld?
Unfortunately not any that I can think of off the top of my head. Sometimes I'll write "18th c" or "18th c slang" on a piece of scrap paper and use it as a bookmark to mark examples I come across, but I'm not very consistent about doing this...
I might make a list of terms upon rereading the series, but I'd probably miss terms.
While I can't think of favorites right now, I've included a few of the many examples that I think are neat, as well as a few that would be nice below, followed by their respective entries:
Something that catches my attention is when "foot pad" is used. It's not my favorite, but I find it somewhat amusing because it seems a rather mild term for what it is.
It's not a favorite term, but as I mentioned in another post, the man who runs/owns the livery stable and said that he always gave the customer what he wanted is named Hobson, and I like that Pratchett was able to make a character out of "Hobson's Choice".
In Going Postal, Vetinari mentions the "sisal twostep" and "hemp fandango", and while I'm not sure if those were real terms, there are certainly similar ones (such as "the Paddington Frisk"), and I think it's cool that Pratchett seems to have based it off of period terms (or perhaps used real term(s) that I'm not familiar with).
Honestly, I'm somewhat disappointed that the Nac Mac Feegle didn't (at least to my memory) call a cat a "Grimmalkin", and I'm really hoping that there's (even a minor) witch named Mrs. Evans...
I wonder how bad it would've been if someone tried to say "you are a thief and a murderer: you have killed a baboon and stolen his face" in the presence of the Librarian. Or the Librarian, a licensed thief, an assassin, a watchperson, and an Igor...
I think it would've been funny if Ankh-Morporkians referred to Vimes as something along the lines of "Old Smoaky", "Smoaky Vimes", or "Commander Smoaky", or if someone (perhaps Nobby?) referred to Cheery and Vimes as "Cheery and Peery".
For anyone wondering what this is about:
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top 5 facts about non-famous Bostonians from the 1770s? (general facts about the population or facts about specific historical people)
oooh hoo hoo! excellent question!!! ty!!!!!
these will not necessarily be in an order. also my sense of who is famous or not is heavily skewed.
this is me trying to figure out who counts:
as some followers may already be aware, in 1771, owner of a local ropewalk john gray successfully sued lendall pitts for damages incurred when they had a brawl downtown over the fact that pitts discovered that the woman he had been flirting with the night before had, in fact, been gray himself. pitts' defense was essentially a gay panic defense, and the jury sided with gray.
this is technically first recorded in the 1780s, but in the classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue, published in london, "gouging [someone's eyes] out" is noted to be something that tends to happen "at boston, in america". i have no actual stats to back this up, but apparently that's our reputation.
i've read notes from a man working under general washington at camp in cambridge where complaints about the behavior of continental soldiers from boston included spending too much time chatting with the enemy while on guard duty, using too much butter to cook, and bathing too close to the bridge where women could gather to watch them.
there's a young man named henry prentiss (or prentice) involved in the boston tea party who later got in trouble with the law because, as far as i can tell, harvard students kept stealing from his vegetable garden, so he started lacing it with laxatives to deter them.
most people in boston in the 1770s, statistically speaking, were under the age of 16
i have more but theres not so many fun facts in my head as there is just very involved gossip and i have no idea any longer whether something is common knowledge or if it's just something i and 20 other people bring up a lot
#sadies day job#this goes in there#also#cant keep johnny down 1771 edition#please keep asking me about weird bostonians i would love to say more if anyone is like 'hey who the fuck is (person mentioned)'#or whats the deal with elizabeth hunt palmer and why do you think she would have loved being on reality tv?
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Fop, dandy and namby-pamby were all terms for effeminate men. There is nuanced difference in their meanings and how they were used in the 18th century.
According to the OED:
Fop
One who is foolishly attentive to and vain of his appearance, dress, or manners; a dandy, an exquisite.
Dandy
One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably; a beau, fop, ‘exquisite’.
Namby-pamby
Of a person or group of people: inclined to weak sentimentality, affectedly dainty; lacking vigour or drive; effeminate in expression or behaviour.
I wouldn’t say any of them are gay slurs per se. They comment on femininity not sexuality. However there was a strong association between gender nonconformity and sodomy and that can’t be dismissed either. Look at how A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) defines molly:
a miss Molly, an effeminate fellow, a sodomite.
There were words that specifically were used as insults against men who had sex with men. The writers could have used words like catamite, sodomite, molly, pathic &c. But they chose fop, dandy and namby-pamby. These are specifically used to insult men for being effeminate. Even ponce (notably not used in the 18th century) is defined by the OED as:
depreciative. An effeminate or affected man or boy; (also) a homosexual man.
This one is a gay slur but its also is an insult for effeminate men.
The focus of these insults is gender nonconformity probably because the show is thematically about toxic masculinity. Auguring back and forth about whether insults aimed at effeminate men are technically gay slurs seems a little silly to me and often implies that if they're not gay slurs then it's ok to use them as an insult. It implies that bigotry against gender nonconforming people is not a problem or at least not as bad as homophobia.
The way that gender nonconforming people were marginalised in the 18th century and are still marginalised today is bigotry in and of itself. However we can never truly seperate the oppression that gender nonconforming people face from misogyny, homophobia and transphobia as these are all intrinsically interlinked under the patriarchy.
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intricate rituals by whipping the cock - from Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1811.
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I been thinking of insults on calling Amrev people, don’t ask it what my mind likes to play around with, and I keep going back to the insult of calling them a dog mostly from my interest in Chainsaw Man and it uses in dogs symbolism, following commands, love and loyalty. Dog was probably a common insult so it probably wouldn’t hit Amrev people too hard depending on their character but also I just know it would tick them off immediately if someone called them a dog. What you think is an insult that not a curse word would immediately pissed Amrev off.
From A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue (1788)
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A Swell Time
The actor Edward Askew Sothern as 'Lord Dundreary', carte de visite c. 1876 (Flickr). There are many pictures of Sothern striking comic poses in-character as Dundreary.
Although the corseted Dandy was not extinct by any means, his place in the public eye was now taken by the Heavy Swell, for whom the character of ‘Lord Dundreary’ (in Tom Taylor’s Our American Cousin) as portrayed by E. A. Sothern, in 1861, served as the perfect model. Never before or since has an actor in a single part had such an effect on Fashions. Not only the immortal whiskers but the affected pose and manners and languid drawling lisp were borrowed from Lord Dundreary who might almost be said to have turned the Dandy into the Heavy Swell.
— Phillis Cunnington and C. Willett Cunnington, on men's fashion of the 1860s, in Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century
The Heavy Swell is also a standard of John Leech's midcentury comics, which is how I encountered him.
Shopman. "Oh, I beg your pardon, sir—but the lady left her parasol on the counter!"
Swell. "Haw! Ya–as–no! That is, it's my umbrellaw. Thanks! By Jove! Haw!"
See also: "Good gwacious!" and even MIWACKULOUS. The character type and distinctive lisp/drawl was established in the 1850s before Lord Dundreary parodied it at its height. But how did the word swell come to describe this well-off gentleman—a real gentleman, even if he has his foibles—from its usage a few decades prior?
The 1823 edition of Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue defines a swell as, "A gentleman; but any well-dressed person is emphatically termed a swell, or a rank swell. A family man [thief] who appears to have plenty of money, and makes a genteel figure, is said, by his associates, to be in Swell-street." The well-dressed criminal swell is the model for Mr. Easthupp from Frederick Marryat's Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836), a purser's steward with a background as a pickpocket. Easthupp is called a swell, and several times he's said to be from "the swell mob," which is clearly referring to low-life society.
When Easthupp is (non-fatally) wounded in a duel, he confesses:
"Oh dear! oh dear! what a fool I was; I never was a gentleman—only a swell: I shall die; I never will pick a pocket again—never—never—God forgive me!"
Even in the late 1840s, a guide to brothels was called "The New Swell's Night Guide."
"With Numerous Spicy Engravings". Maybe John Leech's swells are less innocent than I thought?
"Barrack Life", 1851. Feat. two Heavy Swells.
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Do you any idea when those euphemism would have started being used? I'm writing a book set before the 1850s and finding words for homosexuals in that period is being hell of earth, homosexual itself wasn't coined yet
That particular book (The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose) was written in 1785 and the first edition was by far the least censored. Later editions by the early 19th century sadly removed a lot of the sodomy and f-bombs so they're hard to track. Off the top of my head I'm not sure of other slang dictionaries of that period beyond repeats of Vulgar Tongue, so the question really would be if you think the phrase may have fallen out of fashion by the time your book is set. I get the sense that slang hung around a lot longer then than it does now, though, so you're probably safe. The book was published on and off well into the 1820s.
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"Admiral of the Narrow Seas. One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite him."
A third installment of phrases from the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
#my art#digital art#history#18th century#classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue#no small amount of reference and inspiration taken from photos of my friends at the 250th boston tea party anniversary#there was only a little drinking but much making fools of ourselves
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Looking up some good 18th century insults to hurl at a catcaller in the Dictionary of the Vulgar tongue that isn't prick or dildo and just
"It was once fashionable. It's still fashionable, but it was also once fashionable."
Honestly this book just keeps on giving
#history is a flat circle#humans being people throughout time#The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue#18th century slag#Georgian slang
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I can't see a future for myself and that scares me
I haven't taken my meds in over a year I want to be loved for me, not the sedated version of me
Me/Jordyne:
It seems like the worlds smiling without me
Should morals be dictated by fear of punishment?
They all had opinions of how the serial killer should be killed, and seemed to feel pity for his victims. I felt nothing, once again. I acted like I had a bit of an opinion but I really didn't. It felt the same as hearing what was for breakfast.
Why do you look like you just killed something?
I feel repulsed by my own body which somehow seems to be oozing germs, when there really isn't anything there. I wanna skin myself., claw my skin up and scrub underneath it so I'm clean. This is what it means to be sick, means to be constantly obsessed.
I love books that are
They just don't give out lobotamies like they used to anymore
(I'll say it to your face. Go fuck yourself.)
I've never felt romantically or sexually attracted to anyone before. I don't feel anything, including those things.
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I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
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You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.
These were good people and they had been good to us and we had therefore had a good time. To conclude otherwise was frightening, raising the specter of some unnameable quantity without which we could not abide, but which we could not summon on demand, least of all by proceeding in virtuous accordance with an established formula.
When you pushed me in the water, I swam I had to go my whole life learning, so that I wouldn't drown. You said you treated me like shit cause I deserved it When really you were just miserable with yourself
I let you
Cause I'm taking back my power,
Rico Nasty - Smack a Bitch
My Favourite Badass Girl's: Carter, Sloan,
Sloan D'Aboville: the Jefa of the Spanish mafia / La Jefa of the Spanish Mafia / evil, unforgiving and cold
Point of Menace : Sloan D'Aboville : the Jefa of the Spanish Mafia - evil, unforgiving and cold
Carter [ON HOLD] : Carter Knight : Leader of the Devil's Reapers (Mafia) -
Sinners like us don't find forgiveness in a church no more
This for my people going through depression This for the kids who never felt affection This for the kids whose parents don't accept them Saying they love everyone else except them
It seems like the worlds smiling without me
(God) (The Dream)
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"They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason."
It is not that [the sociopath] fails to grasp the difference between good and bad; it is that the distinction fails to limit their behavior.
Should our morals be dictated by fear of punishment?
I didn't think I'd make it to 12. I'm turning 18 this year.
Hearing words of love sounded like a record on repeat. You loved me, but I didn't love you.
Most days, it feels like I'm eating my own heart
I thought I needed to get worse before I could get better
Mother's often have nowhere to put their rage. More times than not, it gets directed towards their daughters, because they are a clear image of what they could've been. An unmoulded version they could make into something to feel as if they have accomplished something themselves.
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The truth is cruel. The people we love don't really love us back.
I cannot understand this feeling, and there's no way to explain it
Unless you are constantly exposed to a certain amount of pain, you will be afraid of it
Sometimes I wonder if there's something waiting for me in life. If maybe I'll wake up one day and suddenly want to live it.
You can't save me, and I'm afraid I'll drag you down with me
The side of me that was lovely, the side of me that cared about others. It made me sick to think that it was all a lie.
My mother tells me "Don't bleed on my floor," but she's constantly cutting me.
You told me you loved me my whole life, yet I never felt a thing
When the only emotion you ever showed me was anger, I welcomed it with open arms. I wanted you to feel something for me, even if all that was is rage.
In your eyes, what do I look like? Am I as bad as I make myself seem?
I had nowhere to put this sadness, so it turned into anger
A lifetime of sadness turns a person angry
I sat with my sadness long enough, until it became anger
Just because someone has it worse, doesn't mean you don't have it bad
I'm sorry that I broke your heart because I didn't know love
I'm sorry that I broke your heart because I didn't feel know love myself
I'm sorry that I broke your heart because I didn't know how yo love
I can't feel like others do so I end up hurting them by my bluntness ))
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First Place
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Hold Me While You Wait
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Waves
I'm sorry that I broke your heart because I couldn't feel love in mine
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Mafia Boss Male Lead's: Evangelos Kosmos [Gigi] (Serendipity & Sovereignty)
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