Jibber Jabber & Giffle Gaffle: A Collection of Salacious Slang and Popular Profanities Through the Ages
Book Details
Author(s)
Elanor Clarke
Publisher
Summersdale
ISBN / ASIN
1849534705
ISBN-13
9781849534703
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#2,600,939
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United States 🇺🇸
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An essential volume for all lovers of weird and wonderful wordage
WHISTLING BREECHES n.19th century. Noisy trousers, specifically corduroys, for the sound they make when the wearer walks.
TO PUT THE DEVIL INTO HELL. v. 19th century. To have sex, the 'devil' being the penis, and 'hell' being the vagina.
Banter like a bowsered giflurt and swear like a sparrow-mouthed snick fadger with the help of this illustrated dictionary of long-lost words and phrases. This crude and quirky volume contains the most amusing vocabulary from the murky Middle English of Chaucer right up to the more eloquent but equally obscure parlances of the early 1900s!
