Tag Archives: 19th century
Tall Aboard
atTall ships at the North Quay in Drogheda, Co Louth in the late 19th century, including existential potential stowaway.
Also: blummin’ potholes.
Thanks Irish Archaeology via National Library of Ireland
The Profanisaurus of its day.
From Project Gutenberg’s free to browse online copy of ‘1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue’ by Captain Francis Grose. Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing selected the beauts above.
Then – bearing in mind that this is the language of the early 19th century British underworld – there’s the ‘Irish’ section:
See the whole filthy thing here, you clumpish fribble.