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Did you know? Jewelry of jet was the haute jewelry of the Victorian era. — Fallin
What she got was the opposite of what she wanted, also known as the subtitle to her marriage.
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#17
Yo I have been neglectful but have kept my stack so as not to deprive you all!

Ghemboles: Merry pranks (Ireland, 1867)
Spanwhistle: A figurative expression for death. (Yorkshire, 1898)
Blootered: Very tired; exhausted. From blooter, to thrash, beat severely. (Donegal, 1953)
Boanthropy: A form of madness in which a man believes himself to be an ox. (1888)
Flobberchops: An expletive. (From Edward Snow's Glossary of Wiltshire Words, Used by the Peasantry in the Neighborhood of Salisbury, c. 1900)
Overmirth: Insult. (1863)
Stateswoman: A woman who meddles with public affairs. Used in contempt. (1755)
Dollymop: A tawdrily-dressed maidservant; a semi-professional street-walker. (1887)
Gut-foundered: Diseased. "Gut-foundered with greed," worn with the anxieties of averice. (Yorkshire, 1876)


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#18
Glowsy: Heavy; oppressive (East Anglia, 1895)



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#19
Stramsh: To crush or break irreparably; to destroy (Yorkshire, 1788)
Byspelt: A mischievous lad acting always contrarily to reason, authority, and property, as if under the influence of a spell. (Yorkshire, 1814)
Lion-drunk: Said of a man in the second of the proverbial four stages of drunkenness, in which he becomes violent and quarrelsome. The medieval saying was that wine makes a man successively resemble a sheep, a lion, an ape, and a sow. (1908)



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#20
Vegetables have great intellect:

Smart as a carrot: very smart indeed.




If I could marry Bee I would but I can't so I ship our characters instead.
#21
Elflock – If you have wavy hair and you wake up with it tangled and mangled, that's elflock, as though the elves have tied it into knots during the night.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elflock

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#22
Earth-Hunger: An inordinate desire to become the possessor or tenant of a small holding of land. Specifically, the intense feeling evinced by the Irish in favor of a peasant proprietary.

Bags of mystery: Sausages and saveloys.


I will never not love the second one.


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#23
Twangdillows: the sounds of a fiddle




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#24
Fun with weirdly specific terms:

Kirrywery: A sort of burlesque serenade ... of old people who marry a second time.




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#25
Keeping Cully: One that maintains a mistress and parts with money generously to her. From cully, a companion, mate. One who is cheated or imposed upon by a sharper, strumpet, etc. One easily deceived. Much in use in the 17th century.

Yblent: blinded.



He/Him/His by those around her.
She/Her/Hers OOC and in her own narration.
#26
Altiloquence: High speech; pompous language.

Sky parlour: the attic of a house.



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#27
100% am sharing this for the definition rather than the word itself, because I am a child whose head lives in the gutter:

Thrimmo: To finger a thing too long, as a miser his money.




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#28
Flesh-tailor: A surgeon. Also, man-mender.




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#29
Bogg-sclent: to abscond on the day of a battle. Perhaps in allusion to him who sklents, or strikes off obliquely from the highway into a bog, to avoid being taken prisoner.



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#30
Vitulation: A rejoicing like a calf.

I don't know how a calf rejoices but am eager to find out.



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#31
YES GET AT ME.

Scandal-broth: Tea. The reference is to the gossip held by some of the womenkind over their cups, which cheer but not inebriate. Also called chatter-broth.




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#32
Cumpuffled: Confused, bewildered.




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