If someone called you a beetle-browed bastardly gullion and told you to shut your bone box, would you be offended? If you lived in 1785, you most certainly would!
Harking back to a time when insults and rude words were considerably more colourful, this selection from the original slang dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue' includes such gems as:
Bitch Bobby - A country Wench
Lobcock - A large relaxed penis, also a dull inanimate fellow
Captain Francis Grose, an elected fellow of the society of Antiquaries, travelled extensively throughout the British Isles and featured in several of Robert Burns' poems. He died in Dublin of an apoplectic fit in 1791.
- ISBN13 9781849531016
- Publish Date 4 October 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 April 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Summersdale Publishers
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English