September Writing Challenge
September Slang: Use ten of the Victorian phrases below in your posts! Squeeze all the phrases into one crazy post or scatter them about over the month, but please underline/bold/italicise the phrases so they're easy to find! Posts must be made and all linked here during the month of September in order to qualify.
Choose 10 to complete the challenge:
A society word meaning “smart.” Forrester demonstrates the usage: "The goods are not 'afternoonified' enough for me.”
2. BANG UP TO THE ELEPHANT
This phrase originated in London in 1882, and means “perfect, complete, unapproachable.”
3. BRICKY
Brave or fearless. “Adroit after the manner of a brick," Forrester writes, "said even of the other sex, 'What a bricky girl she is.'”
4. CAT-LAP
A London society term for tea and coffee “used scornfully by drinkers of beer and strong waters ... in club-life is one of the more ignominious names given to champagne by men who prefer stronger liquors.”
5. COP A MOUSE
To get a black eye. “Cop in this sense is to catch or suffer," Forrester writers, "while the colour of the obligation at its worst suggests the colour and size of the innocent animal named.”
6. DOING THE BEAR
"Courting that involves hugging."
7. GAL-SNEAKER
An 1870 term for "a man devoted to seduction.”
8. GAS-PIPES
A term for especially tight pants.
9. JAMMIEST BITS OF JAM
“Absolutely perfect young females,” circa 1883.
10. MAKE A STUFFED BIRD LAUGH
“Absolutely preposterous.”
11. MAFFICKING
An excellent word that means getting rowdy in the streets.
12. POKED UP
Embarrassed.
13. SAUCE-BOX
The mouth.
14. SMOTHERING A PARROT
Drinking a glass of absinthe neat; named for the green colour of the booze.
15. TAKE THE EGG
To win.
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