1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

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1mrgrooism
Mar 23, 2010, 7:20 am

Our Bible, the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by the sainted Francis Grose

Get it here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5402

Please note the Most Holy Passage:



TO HUFF. To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster,
bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted bully.
To stand the huff; to be answerable for the reckoning in
a public house.

HUG. To hug brown bess; to carry a firelock, or serve as a
private soldier. He hugs it as the Devil hugs a witch:
said of one who holds any thing as if he was afraid of losing
it.

HUGGER MUGGER. By stealth, privately, without making
an appearance. They spent their money in a hugger
mugger way.

HUGOTONTHEONBIQUIFFINARIANS. A society existing in
1748.


HULKY, or HULKING. A great hulky fellow; an over-grown
clumsy lout, or fellow.

HULVER-HEADED. Having a hard impenetrable head; hulver,
in the Norfolk dialect, signifying holly, a hard and
solid wood.

TO HUM, or HUMBUG. To deceive, or impose on one by
some story or device. A humbug; a jocular imposition,
or deception. To hum and haw; to hesitate in speech,
also to delay, or be with difficulty brought to consent to
any matter or business,



2cmbohn
Mar 23, 2010, 6:45 pm

It looks like our secret is out.

3mrgrooism
Mar 24, 2010, 12:27 am

It's called Hiding in Plain Sight!

See, your average Vulgar Slang Reader is perusing this book looking for Curse Words (yaaaay!), but they suddenly come to the unwieldy "Hugotontheonbiquif... aww hell I aint reading that word!"

See? Their minds slide right off Our Name and directly onto "Hulky!"

Simply devious!!!

4dtw42
Jun 21, 2010, 4:11 pm

The entry on quiffing is plain enough; thankfully biquiffing is left to the reader's imagination.