Old Time Swearin'

[lucretius]

Herein, I post for my own future reading:



1811 DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE: A dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence.


I am bound and determined to make use of this vocabulary. Here's a few examples, including some quite picturesque ones: ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. One who from drunkenness

Comments

[molasses]

excuse my offtopicness but I really love your ex and her screaming.
I had a screamer-neighbor once. at 3 or 4am, all I could do was laugh.

[purplkat]

Thank you so much for this! It's going to be VERY helpful when I go back through my book and refine the slang used through most of it.

[msgarnet]

I need a pronounciation guide!

[lucretius]

Just pretend you're talking like one of the characters from _Snatch_. Any one.

The good thing about dead terms is--nobody knows you're not saying it right.