While writing our first book,The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man, we decided to throw a few old-time 19th century slang words into the text just for fun. While scouring old dictionaries for some virile words and phrases that would fit into the book, we ca...
made from a length of cotton. Before World War II, the fundoshi was the main form of underwear for Japanese adult males. However it fell out of use quickly after the war with the introduction of new underwear to the Japanese market, such as briefs and boxer briefs. ...
“the phrase derives from the Royal Navy and that this was the order given to sailors to put a foot from their hammocks (吊床) and get up”及第五段第一句中的“An alternative version comes from the fact that women were allowed on board Royal Navy ships in the 19th century”可知,有两...
A lesbian The term derives from the nineteenth-century slang word dike, which referred to male clothing, and when it was first used to refer to women, it carried a derogatory connotation of masculine appearance or behaviour Dyke Bite Refers to a straight woman using lesbianism as a feminist ar...
Slang was the use of colorful words, derived from regional or time specific terminology, used in place of more formal words. Many time frames and cultures have their own unique slang. For example, during the 20th century on Earth, several cultural moveme
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Where does sucking dick come from? The word dick has been a slang term for a man or fellow since the 16th century. It is likely that its meaning expanded (pardon the pun) to “penis” in the mid-19th century—at least as recorded, as it was certainly spoken well before then. The...
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OK, soCockney Rhyming Slangis a type of slang. It's a coded language invented in the 19th Century by Cockneys so they could speak in front of the police without being understood. And still on the subject of money, I have a question for you, ...
the phrase 'rabbit and pork', but few would be able to guess it.A lot of the original rhyming slang appeared among the market traders in the east end of London in the 19th century, but it is still used and new words and phrases are being invented all the time. At the moment, it ...