Mister Slang
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Slang Lexicographer.
Serendip being what is unfalingly is, I came across this yesterday in The Satirist, or, the Censor of the Times for Aug. 3 1834
Late 19C Aus. 'larrikins', equivalent of NYC 'bhoys', often blacked up to emphasise their alientation from mainstream society. A popular performer, the Londoner E.J. Lennon, perfomed the attached for Aus. audiences, with full blackface 'minsterel' makeup.
@petersokolowski.bsky.social stumbled on this from Aus. 1920 Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Dec. p.28. May be 'old hat' (sorry) to you, but was there really an Oz edn?
Can't speak for your marriage prospects, but welcome to slang lex. Online from 1 July (or -ish)
I know 'Limogé' and 'degommé' for officer-level demotions or movement to lesser jobs, but 'verdunissé' defeats me, I fear. Can't see it in Fr. milit. dicts or on line either. I can only find attached (in Trésor de la Langue française)
napoo: GDoS & OED have 1915 and root in Fr. ‘il n’y a plus’, there is no more; orig. used by shopkeepers as stock reply to importuning soldiers]. I note the attached, Nov 1920 in Sydney Bulletin. Keen on a citation if anyone has read whichever bk is meant.
Has anyone read this? pub. 1920 and as ever, I seek to know its slanginess. 'Sydney Bulletin' story included. Gould was writer + pioneer suffragist; Dyson a celebrated Aus. political cartoonist
By kind permission of the artist, I offer the latest London map from artist Adam Dant: ‘Nazi London’. Ideal gift for Reform councillors, the current Home Secretary, and of course the perfectly initialled NF himself. For more (incl. our three slang-based collabs): www.tagfinearts.com/artists/adam...
A word from serendip, i.e. George Templeton Strong, lawyer, Anglophile, conservative and one of the US 'great and good' From his Diaries, 22 Oct. 1860. Plus ça change. Don't all laugh at once.
The first uses GDoS has for 'unc/unk' neutrally defined as abbrev. of 'uncle', come from two VA writers, pub. 1868, 1884; the second, Bagley, 'The Old Virginia Gent.' 1884 is attached. A third (1903) refs KY. There may be earlier examples but as yet unfound. I also need to bring things up to date.
As noted yesterday, it's GDoS Update Time again. I await only the laying on of hands by the incomparable jessesword.com and all will be revealed. For now, a couple of samples’ lists: 1. a selection of new terms and 2. of the dict's most recent (and long-ago) predates of what exists.
A propos of...who can say? Kipling, of course and up to and including that ever-important dropped 'g', has it right. From ‘The Sergeant's Weddin'‘ (1896). I presume I have no need to fill in the bowdlerized final rhyme. (reported with extra rhyme)
A propos of...who can say? Kipling, of course and up to and including that ever-important dropped 'g', has it right. From ‘The Sergeant's Weddin'‘ (1896). I presume I have no need to fill in the bowdlerized final rhyme.
Suddenly realised what Trump's drivelings mimic: The Last Words of Arthur Fliegenheimer, aka mob boss ‘Dutch Schultz' gut-shot and after lingering and jabbering, died 10/24/1935. www.fourmilab.ch/documents/du.... Final sentences here:
@niallharbison.bsky.social cartoon ‘In the Sheep Country’ from the Bulletin (Sydney) 22/07/1920
For those who debate the origins of chunder, to vomit (greensdictofslang.com/entry/jfgfaqa), here is one founding father: Chunder Loo of Akim Foo (with Edward VIII to be)
My slang-coarsened mind, no doubt, but...are those entendres as gaily double as they appear? PS 'Mary-Ann' has a cameo too. from Aus. magazine The ‘Sydney Bulletin’, July 1920.
Pom meets Oz. Cover of Frank Fowler Southern Lights and Shadows (1859)
Shelves, bid welcome to the swansong of the late, great guv'nor, the incomparable bard of the Sweet Science: Mister...Pierce...Eeee-gan!!!! Accompanied on the hand-painted pictures by by Mister...Robert... Cruikshank!!! ‘We have been pirated, copied, traduced; but, unfortunately, not enriched.’
qn for mid-19C historians of US west: any thoughts on phr 'a big thing on Snyder': something much hyped but of no real value. Meanwhile those who liked Chas. Mackay's list of 1840s popular sayings, here are more, from the Monmouth Democrat (N.J.) in 1861:
In fairness, almost all the rest look like this (except in London's picturesque sharia-run East End.)