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Jul 21, 2015 · Murphy, who also oversees the language-watching blog Separated by a Common Language, says: "English has a rich variety of means for making new words — and then a lot of slang is just giving new ...
Jul 21, 2015 · Here are an even dozen, pretty much forgotten slanglike words or sayings from the 19th century, rediscovered while delving in the archives — and with added guidance from James Maitman's 1891 American Slang Dictionary : 1) Too high for his nut — beyond someone's reach. "That clay-bank hog wants the same pay as a Senator; he's getting too ...
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Jul 21, 2015 · Murphy, who also oversees the language-watching blog , says: "English has a rich variety of means for making new words — and then a lot of slang is just giving new meaning to old words."
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May 10, 2016 · NPR’s Linton Weeks put together a list of 12 lost slang phrases from the 1800s that have fallen to the lingual wayside. We’ve included each phrase in a sentence below. Try to guess what each phrase means. “Too high for his nut”: That woman is way out of his league; you could say he’s getting a little too high for his nut. “Bottom ...
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Slang. A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in verbal conversation but avoided in formal writing. [1] It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
Oct 30, 2015 · Find out the meaning behind 19th century terms like church bell (a chatterbox), gibface (an ugly person), meater (a coward), mutton shunter (a cop), and whooperup (a bad singer).
