Old-timey cussin'!

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― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

post your favorites!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

WHIFFLES. A relaxation of the scrotum.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

TONY. A silly fellow, or ninny. A mere tony: a simpleton.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Being a drunken pirate, I liked:

ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. One who from drunkenness
vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to
him. SEA PHRASE.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"ARRAH NOW. An unmeaning expletive, frequently used by the vulgar Irish."

WTF "vulgar Irish"?

It is fun to say though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

WILD SQUIRT. A looseness.

???

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Vulgar Tongue

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, I thought we'd done this.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

FUSTY LUGGS. A beastly, sluttish woman.

!!!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

MINIKIN. A little man or woman

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

We should repost this thread every two months for all the layabouts who missed it the previous time. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

TWIDDLE-DIDDLES. Testicles.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Want-wit.

― ModJ, Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

SOOTERKIN. A joke upon the Dutch women, supposing that, by their constant use of stoves, which they place under their petticoats, they breed a kind of small animal in their bodies, called a sooterkin, of the size of a mouse, which when mature slips out.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"Right, so this fusty luggs was putting the whiffles on my twiddle-diddles the other night..."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

ASS GOBLIN. One who dates either Ben Affleck or Bea Arthur.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

THATCH-GALLOWS. A rogue, or man of bad character.

TO WHIP THE COCK. A piece of sport practised at wakes,
horse-races, and fairs in Leicestershire: a cock being tied
or fastened into a hat or basket, half a dozen carters
blindfolded, and armed with their cart whips, are placed
round it, who, after being turned thrice about, begin to
whip the cock, which if any one strikes so as to make it
cry out, it becomes his property; the joke is, that instead
of whipping the cock they flog each other heartily.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

DEAR SHWEET JEBUS! That is the greatest thing I've ever read ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

ha, sorry Ricky, I was on vacation in July!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Any sport practised at wakes is alright by me, flogging each other heartily is just a bonus.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

PULLY HAWLY. To have a game at pully hawly; to romp with women.

Me, down at McCarthy's or somesuch other place, tonight, to a lady:

"Care to have a game at pully hawly?"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 August 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

CRIB. A house. To crack a crib: to break open a house.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 14 August 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

GAYING INSTRUMENT. The penis.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I think my favorite one that doesn't mean what it could is PRIEST-RIDDEN.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

QUEER BUNG. An empty purse.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

how in Christ's name does one pronounce "sidledywry"??

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

BUTTOCK AND TWANG, or DOWN BUTTOCK AND SHAM
FILE. A common whore, but no pickpocket.

you would expect BUTTOCK AND TONGUE to mean something more interesting than "a scolding wife".

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Crib (still) means a summer house or bach (?sp) in parts of NZ.
Has anyone heard the expression "crikey trousers!" as a more polite version of Crikey dick! or did I just make it up?

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

CHEESER. A bad smelling fart.

FARTLEBERRIES. Excrement hanging about the anus.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TS: fartleberries vs. bootyflakes

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought they were dingleberries!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 15 August 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

ANKLE. A girl who is got with child, is said to have sprained
her ankle.

― jewelly (jewelly), Friday, 15 August 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

WRY MOUTH AND A PISSEN PAIR OF BREECHES. Hanging.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 15 August 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

(one assumes that doesn't mean "hanging out"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 15 August 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

WHORE PIPE. The penis.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 15 August 2003 01:59 (twenty-three years ago)

WET PARSON. One who moistens his clay freely, in order
to make it stick together.

(!!)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 15 August 2003 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

CLAY. See FARTLEBERRIES.

xpost

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 15 August 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex in NYC to thread like yesterday!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 15 August 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

CATCH FART. A footboy; so called from such servants commonly following close behind their master or mistress.

― Picard Maneuver (Leee), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

DUNNOCK. A cow. CUNT.

I wet myself when I read that.

― The Ghost at Number Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still giggling at Nicks "Right, so this fusty luggs was putting the whiffles on my twiddle-diddles the other night..." thing... hee hee..

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

THINGSTABLE. Mr. Thingstable; Mr. Constable: a ludicrous
affectation of delicacy in avoiding the pronunciation
of the first syllable in the title of that officer, which in
sound has some similarity to an indecent monosyllable.

It's Political Correctness gone mad!

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

REVERSED. A man set by bullies on his head, that his
money may fall out of his breeches, which they afterwards
by accident pick up. See HOISTING.

"by accident??"

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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