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PASSING ENGLISH OF THE VICTORIAN ERA : A DICTIONARY OF HETERODOX ENGLISH, SLANG
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ABBREVIATIONS USED


ab. .


. about


Mid. .


Middle


abbrev.


. abbreviation


Milit.


Military


Amer.


American


M. P.


Morning Pott


art. .


artistic


Mus. Hall .


Music Hall


Austral. .


. Australia


N. . .


North


Bk. .


. Book


Newsp. Cutting .


Newspaper cutting


N. Y.


New York


Ca. .


. Canto


c. Eng.


. common English


0. Eng.


Old English


cent. .


. century


on ...


onwards, as 1890 on=


cf.


. compare


1890 and years fol-


ch. .


. chapter


lowing


C. L. .


. common life


0. S. .


old style


com. , comui.


common.


commerc. .


. commercial


P. House .


Public House


corr. .


. corruption


Peo. .


The People


crit. .


. criticism


Peop.


Peoples'


D. C. .


Daily Chronicle


polit. . Pub. Sch. .


political Public School


D. els.


. Dangerous Classes


D. M.


. Daily Mail


q. v. .


which see


D. N. D. T.


. Daily News . Daily Telegraph


qq.v. .


which (plural) see


E. .


Railway, Koyal


E. e.g. .


. East . for example


Ref. . . .


Referee


E. N.


. Evening News


S.


South


Eng., Engl.


. England, English


Sat. Rev. .


Saturday Review


Hist. .


. historical


Soc. .


Society


Span., Sp. .


Spanish


i.e.


. that is


St. ...


stanza


/. L. N. .


. Illustrated London


St. .


Standard


News


S. Exch. .


Stock Exchange


Ind. .


Indian


Theat., Theatr. .


Theatrical


L. .


. Low Class


Tr. .


Trade


L. C. and D.


. London, Chatham


Dover


Univ. .


University


L. C. .


. Lower Class


U.S.A.


United States of


Lit. .


. literary


America


Lond., Lon.


London


V.


against


M. Class .


. Middle Class


Metrop.


. Metropolitan


W. .


West


PASSING ENGLISH


A. D.


Academy Headache


A. D. (Ball-room programme). Drink, disguised, thus :


PROGRAMME OF DANCES.


1. Polka


2. Valse


3. Valse


4. Lanoers


5. Valse


6. Valse


7. Quadrille


8. Valse


Etc., etc.


Polly J. A. D. Miss F. Polly J. A. D.


Miss M. A. T. Polly J. A. D.


The ingeniousness of this arrangement is that young ladies see 'A. D.', and
assume the youth engaged.


Abernethy (Peoples'}. A biscuit, so named after its inventor, Dr Abernethy (see
Bath Oliver).


Abisselfa (Suffolk). Alone. From ' A by itself, A ' ; an old English way of
stating the alphabet.


Abney Park (Hast London). About 1860. An abbreviation of Abney Park cemetery, a
burial ground for a large proportion of those who die in the East End of London.
Cemetery is a difficult word which the ignorant always avoid. Now used
figuratively, e.g., 'Poor bloke, he's gone to Abney Park ' — meaning that he is
dead.


We had a friendly lead in our court t'other night. Billy Johnson's kid snuffed
it, and so all the coves about got up a ' friendly ' to pay for the funeral to
plant it decent in Abney. — Cutting.


About and About (Soc., 1890 on). Mere chatter, the conversation of fools who
talk for sheer talking's sake, e.g., 1 A more about and about man never
suggested or prompted sudden murder.'


In an age of windy and pretentious gabble — when the number of persons who


can, and will, chatter 'about and about the various arts is in quite
unprecedented disproportion to the number of those who are content to study
these various arts in patience, and, above all, in silence — there was something
eminently salutary in Millais' bluff contempt for the more presumptuous theories
of the amateurs. — D. T., 14th August 1896.


Above - board (Peoples'}. Frank, open. From sailors' lingo. Not between decks or
in the hold, but above all the boards in the ship.


Abraham's Willing (Rhyming}. Shilling. Generally reduced to willing, e.g., '
Lend us a willing.'


He don't care an Abraham's willing for anybody. — Newsp. Cutting.


Absolutely True (Soc., ab. 1880). Absolutely false, from the title of a book,
the statements in which, of a ghostly character, were difficult of acceptation.


Abyssinian Medal (Military). A button gone astray from its buttonhole, one in
the region of the abdomen. Introduced after the Abyssinian "War. (See Star in
the East.)


Academy (London). A billiardroom. Imported from Paris, 1885.


An edict has been promulgated (Paris) forbidding the playing of games of chance
on public thoroughfares or in cafes for money, and it is chiefly directed
against the billiard rooms, or academies as they are called here.— D. T., 26th
July 1894.


Academy Headache. When art became fashionable to a severe degree this malady
appeared ; now applied generically to headaches acquired at any art galleries.


Art critics complain of 'Academy headache' and of the fatigue produced by


Academic Nudity


Advertisement Conveyancers


leagues of coloured canvases. — D. N., 15th April 1885.


There has yet to arise the philosopher who can explain to us the precise cause
of the 'Academy headache'. ... It is an experience familiar to many who ' do '
the great collection at Burlington House. Most persons who go to the Academy
know the malady well. — D. N., 4th June 1885.


Academic Nudity ( Oxford). Appearance in public without cap or gown.


After a tranquil pipe in a friend's room we set out again. Shall we take cap and
gown, or shall we venture forth in a state of ' Academic nudity ' ? Perish the
slavish thought ! We go without them. — Cutting.


Accident. A child born out of wedlock.


Accidented (Lit., 1884). Liable to surprise.


An operatic season thus accidented can hardly prove prosperous, but may be
pregnant of good if it teach intending managers of Italian opera to rely on
general excellence of ensemble, rather than on stars that may at any moment be
eclipsed.— Globe, 1st July 1885.


According to Cocker (Peoples'). Quite correct, according to rule. Cocker
flourished in 1694, when the first edition of his Arithmetic appeared at the
sign of the Black Boy on London Bridge. In the beginning there was no sense of
the preposterous in declaring a thing was 'according to Cocker'. Probably the
quaintness of the name brought down the dignity of the phrase.


According to Gunter (Peoples'). Used precisely as 'according to Cocker '. Gunter
was a distinguished arithmetician, and the inventor of a chain and scale for
measuring. 'Gunter's chain' is dragged over the land to this day. ' Give me the
Gunter' is as common a phrase amongst surveyors as 'Give me the chain '.


Acknowledge the Corn (Amer. English}. Adroit confession of minor offence to
intensify the denial of the major offence: e.g., 'Sir, I believe you are after
my wife — and you certainly pocketed my meerschaum last Sunday evening at
10.30.' To which the answer might be: 'Well, I acknowledge the corn — I took the
pipe by incident, so to speak ; but as to Mrs H., I'm as innocent as the
skipping lamb.' Said to arise from


an ordinary horse -lifting case in the West of U.S.A. The victim was accused of
stealing four horses from one point and four feeds of corn from another for the
said four horses. c I acknowledge the corn,' said the sufferer — but legend says
he was lynched in spite of the admission.


Acting Ladies (Theatrical, 1883). Indifferent artistes. Mrs Langtry, moving in
society, having (1882) appeared as an actress in London, and in the same year
gone to America, where she made vast sums of money, many ladies of more
education than dramatic ability turned their attention to the stage. Eleven out
of a dozen totally failed, and few ' twelfths ' kept before the public : hence
an ' acting lady' soon came, amongst theatrical people, to represent an
incapable actress: e.g., 'She isn't a comedian, you know, she's an acting lady.'


Acting ladies, in my opinion, should be severely left alone. There is no
pleasing them or their friends. — Entr'acte, February 1883.


Actor's Bible (Theatrical). The Era. This phrase was one of the first directed
against sacred matters, about the time when Essays and Reviews was much
discussed (1860-70).


Mr Sydney Grundy, whose sensitiveness sometimes outruns his discretion, issued a
challenge to Mr Clement Scott in ' the Actor's Bible '.—Ref. 1883.


There was a motion in the Court of Chancery on Friday, before Mr Justice Chitty,
to commit the proprietor of the 'Actor's Bible' for contempt of Court for
allowing certain remarks about ' unprincipled imitators' of Miss Genevieve Ward
to appear in print. — Cutting.


Adam and Eve's togs (Peoples'). Nakedness. (See Birth-day suit.)


Adam's Ale (Peoples'). Waterprobably from the time of the Stuart Puritans. If
so, it forms a good example of national history in a word or phrase.


Ad's my Life (Peoples'; 18 cent.). An 18 cent, form of ' God's my life '. (See
Odd's life.)


Ad's Bud (18 cent.). God's Bud, i.e., Christ. Common in H. Fielding.


Advertisement Conveyancers (Soc. , 1883). Street Advertisement Board Carriers.
(See Sandwich Men.) Brought in by W. E. Gladstone (2nd May 1883), during his
speech at the


JEgis


Agony in Red


inauguration dinner of the National Liberal Club in these words :


These fellow-citizens of ours have it for their lot that the manly and
interesting proportions of the human form are in their case disguised both
before and after by certain oblong formations which appear to have no higher
purpose than what is called conveying an advertisement.— Newsp. Cutting.


Society accepted the phrase and the Premier's enemies shot many a shaft anent
it.


^Egis (Latin). A shield, hence protection, patronage, from Minerva's habit of
putting her invisible shield in front of her favourites when in battle.


Madam Adelina Patti appeared yesterday afternoon under the aegis of Messrs
Harrison, and once more gathered a great audience round her. — D. T., 4th June
1897.


^Estheticism (Soc., 1865 - 1890). Ideal social ethics, represented outwardly by
emblems, chiefly floral, the more significant flowers being the white lily and
the sunflower.


The women wore their dresses chiefly in neutral tints, and especially in three
series, viz. : — greens, dead leaf (the yellows, or yellowish, of the series) ;
olive (the middle path of colour) ; and sage (the blues of the series). In each
of these series there were scores of tints. The pomegranate was also a fetish.
(See Grego. )


The joke of sestheticism and sunflowers had been smiled at and had died once or
twice between 1865 and 1878 before it was familiar enough to the public for
dramatic purposes. — D. N.t 27th January 1887.


Affigraphy (Coster). To a T, exactly. A corruption of autograph — the vulgar
regarding a signature as of world-wide importance and gravity. (See Sivvy.)


Afters (Devon). Sweets — pies and puddings. ' Bring in the afters ' is a common
satirical remark in poor Devonshire houses, especially when there are no '
afters ' to follow. Also used in Scotland, e.g., 'Hey mon, a dinner, an' nae
afters ! '


Afternoon Calls (Soc., 19 cent.). Referring to exclusive society, who have never
accepted the afternoon 'drums' and five o'clock teas, but adhered to the more
formal 15 -minute afternoon visit.


You had not observed that sort of thing before marriage? Never. What I saw of
her was at afternoon calls. — Lord Gerard's evidence in Lord Durham's Nullity of
Marriage suit, March 1885.


Afternoonified (Soc.). Smart.


What may prove a popular new adjective made its first appearance last week. A
lady entered a fashionable drapery store. The lady found nothing to please her.
The shopwalker then was called. This individual, with a plausible tale or
compliment, will invariably effect a sale after all other means have failed. In
reply to his question whether the goods were not suitable, the fastidious
customer answered : ' No, thank you ; they are not "afternoonified" enough for
me.' In the case of a lady armed with an argument of such calibre what was the
shopwalker to say or do? Like a wise man, he expressed his regret and beat a
dignified retreat. The lady did the same, but the adjective remained. — D. T.,
July 1897.


* After you with the push' (Peoples'). Said, with satirical mock politeness, in
the streets to any one who has roughly made his way past the speaker, and
'smudged' him.


Aggeravators, Hagrerwaiters (Costermongers). Side-curls still worn by a few
conservative costennongers. Of two kinds — the ring, or ringlet (the more
ancient), and the twist, dubbed, doubtless in the first place by satirists,
'Newgate Knockers'. Indeed the model of this embellishment might have been the
knocker of the door of the house of the governor of that gaol. The aggravation
may mean that these adornments excite envy in those who cannot grow these
splendours, or that they aggravate or increase the admiration of the fair sex.
The younger costers wear rival forehead tufts — such as the Quiff, the Guiver,
or the Flop. There is, however, one golden rule for these fashions — the hair
must stop short of the eyelids.


Agony in Red (Soc.). Vermilion costume. When the aesthetic craze was desperately
'on' (1879-81), terms used in music were applied to painting, as a 'nocturne in
silver-grey,' a 'symphony in amber,' a 'fugue in purple,' an 'andante in shaded
violet'. Hence it was an easy transition to apply terms of human emotions to
costumes.


There are many terrible tints even now to be found among the repertory of the


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