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WILL ANYBODY WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE ANTIQUE SLANG DICTIONARIES I AM CATALOGING TODAY OR SHOULD I LEARN TO REPRESS MYSELF FOR TWENTY-FOUR WHOLE HOURS AND FIND OUT ABOUT DELAYED GRATIFICATION
anyhow a rouflaquette is a lock of hair worn twisted back from the temples; "aggerewaters, or Newport knockers."..."When men twist the hair on each side of their faces into ropes, they are sometimes called 'bell-ropes, as being wherewith to draw the belles."
thinking about a guy with a little miniature churchbell in his head (the inside of his head an empty echoing chamber) such that when you tug on his braided sideburns, his rouflaquettes, his aggerewaters, you hear the sonorous bell-toll. a better reason to call em bell-ropes
this is where false etymologies come from, you know
Barrère will render french argot in its closest English equivalent except for when a word is REALLY naughty, such as Magneuse ("femme qui se déprave avec des individus de son sex"). mind you, elsewhere he has no trouble defining a Persillard as a "sodomite who lounges about"
inconsistency to say the least
say, "When a person cracks an almond for another, should there be a double kernel, he who cries out first "Bonjour, Philippine!" can exact a present from the other."
I expect this is written into the Napoleonic Code
say, "When a person cracks an almond for another, should there be a double kernel, he who cries out first "Bonjour, Philippine!" can exact a present from the other."
I expect this is written into the Napoleonic Code
boy I wish I could get a scholarship to the canting academy. even a partial, I’ll take out student loans for the rest, I don’t care
but I will be damned if they expect me to know a vulgarity but not practice it
but I will be damned if they expect me to know a vulgarity but not practice it
I am sold but by all means keep advertising if you please
the best things in Grose are the ones Heyer was too dull to borrow
"Wolf-in-the-breast" is "an extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practiced...by strolling women," which I don't & won't understand without a fuller explanation of the mode than Grose is willing to give
"Wolf-in-the-breast" is "an extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practiced...by strolling women," which I don't & won't understand without a fuller explanation of the mode than Grose is willing to give
I mean I sort of get it but all he will tell of it is step 1
(step 1. counterfeit extreme pain by "pretending to have a small animal called a wolf in their breasts, which is continually gnawing them")
step 2.???
step 3. .....profit? I hope there is profit
(step 1. counterfeit extreme pain by "pretending to have a small animal called a wolf in their breasts, which is continually gnawing them")
step 2.???
step 3. .....profit? I hope there is profit
"Woman and Her Husband: A married couple, where the woman is bigger than her husband"
you know the wonderful thing about a book of this nature & agedness is you can choose how to take things, and ignore connotations if you don't care for them. & I know how I choose to take this
you know the wonderful thing about a book of this nature & agedness is you can choose how to take things, and ignore connotations if you don't care for them. & I know how I choose to take this
