historical slang fridays

Fridays mean… a few choice excerpts from The Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang.

So let’s stop the flapdoodle (empty talk) and get stuck in to a rightold John Roberts (enough drink to keep you drunk from Saturday to Sunday night). Watch you don’t shake a flannin (have a fight) or you’ll be set to shake a cloth in the wind (be hanged). But if you play your cards right, you might get to dance the reel o’stumpy (have sex).

So use these where you can because…

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/29/its-the-end-of-the-frog-and-toad-for-regional-slang-says-report