Some Victorian Slang Terms

[Furryanimal]

Get ready to look like a gigglemug while you and your chuckaboos enjoy these Victorian slang terms from History Hustle. It’s all beer and skittles.

link here


historyhustle.com/victorian-slang-terms/

 

[MarkinPhx]

Those wild and whacky Victorians ! Funny though how some things never change, just the words we use

 

[Warrigal]

Podsnappery - I love it.

Will try to use this word when arguing with other Seniors.
If I can remember it, of course.

 

[RadishRose]

I love these!
Especially #1-

 

[Fyrefox]

I’ve heard it said and can well believe that if we went backwards in time even a hundred years or so, we’d have trouble understanding some of the slang expressions and idioms used. Go back in time several hundred years, and we might have trouble understanding conversational speech, period. Today’s hep cat is the enigma of another time…

 

[horseless carriage]

I love these!
Especially #1-

Nowadays, in Brit-Speak, Brickie is the colloquial term we call a bricklayer in the building trade.

Balderdash: This colourful term could be used to dismiss someone's statement as absurd or untrue. Today we might call it: “fake news."

Got the morbs: This was used to describe the feeling of temporarily being sad, with "morbs" being short for "morbidness" or "morbid feelings.”