1800s american insults
Alexandria (Virginia) Gazette, 11 Sept. 1830. ), One who slanders another behind his back, i.e. What It Meant: Doing well. What are the odds my son and I were just talking about the word lunatic because of the recent full moon? Sauce-Box Gender-specific insults seem to have run amok back in the day; still, this one is particularly . United States Telegraph (Washington, D.C.), 6 Oct. 1831, Definition: having a projecting lower jaw. Tenderfoot: newcomer; inexperienced person. This is particularly the case when it comes to our modern stock of insults and put-downs. Prior to describing a meat stew the word had been used to refer to an insipid drink, the mixed blood, oil, and salt water that collect on the decks of a ship while the valuable parts of a whale are being handled, and several other unfortunate things. He was grittin his teeth like he could bite the sites off a six-gun. Originally (late-15th C.) bellows for an organ.. Arose American west c. 1875 as a reference to some species of rattlesnakes peculiar lateral movement.. The word first became tied to lawyers especially of the slimy variety in 1857. Given that sockdolager appears to have appeared in print as a highly colloquial term in the 1820s, and has had more spelling variants than it has letters, it is unlikely that its true origins will be made clear anytime soon. Has the cause of a rocket failure ever been mis-identified, such that another launch failed due to the same problem? "That clay-bank hog wants the same pay as a Senator; he's getting too high for his nut," according to a grammar-corrected version of the Oakland, Calif., Tribune on Jan. 12, 1885. Mouthpiece: from 1805, one who speaks on behalf of others. To bespawl means to spit or dribble. In 1800s we might hear someone say "Roberts, you're a God-damned fool." Short story about swapping bodies as a job; the person who hires the main character misuses his body. Union soldiers also were called blueskins, after the color of their uniforms.