HUNT'S DOG. He is like Hunt's dog, will neither go to church nor stay at home. One Hunt kept a mastiff, who on being shut up on Sundays, howled, thus his master resolved to take him to church with him: but when he came to the church door, the dog refused to enter.

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CATAMARAN. An old scraggy woman; from a kind of float made of spars and yards lashed together, for saving ship-wrecked persons.

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"It’s a strange thing how we, with little control over the matter, so fiercely love the beings whom we know—if all goes as planned and Fares Luck doesn’t intervene—we might someday bury."

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DRAIN. Gin: so called from the diuretic qualities imputed to that liquor.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DRAIN. Gin: so called from the diuretic qualities imputed to that liquor. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

How anatomical names can carry hidden histories of power and exclusion

Why is your ankle named after a Greek hero and your uterus after a Renaissance anatomist? The answer says as much about power and memory as it does about medicine.

By Lucy E. Hyde

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HANDSOME. He is a handsome-bodied man in the face; a jeering commendation of an ugly fellow. Handsome is that handsome does: a proverb frequently cited by ugly women.

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BATCHELOR'S SON. A bastard.

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JEMMY FELLOW. A smart spruce fellow.

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TO BUM. To arrest a debtor. The gill bummed the swell for a thimble; the tradesman arrested the gentleman for a watch.

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RICHAUD SNARY. A dictionary. A country lad, having been reproved for calling persons by their christian names, being sent by his master to borrow a dictionary, thought to shew his breeding by asking for a Richard Snary.

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MASTER OF THE WARDROBE. One who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor.

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CAPTAIN COPPERTHORNE'S CREW. All officers; a saying of a company where everyone strives to rule.

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GALLEY FOIST. A city barge, used formerly on the lord mayor's day, when he was sworn in at Westminster.

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BAWBELS, or BAWBLES. Trinkets; a man's testicles.

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PICKLE. An arch waggish fellow. In pickle, or in the pickling tub; in a salivation. There are rods in brine, or pickle, for him; a punishment awaits him, or is prepared for him. Pickle herring; the zany or merry andrew of a mountebank. See JACK PUDDING.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): PICKLE. An arch waggish fellow. In pickle, or in the pickling tub; in a salivation. There are rods in brine, or pickle, for him; a punishment awaits him, or is prepared for him. Pickle herring; the zany or merry andrew of a mountebank. See JACK PUDDING. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

JENNY. An instrument for lifting up the grate or top of a show-glass, in order to rob it. CANT.

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Management speak gone mad...

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BRANDY-FACED. Red-faced, as if from drinking brandy.

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CANTERBURY STORY. A long roundabout tale.

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APOTHECARY'S BILL. A long bill.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): APOTHECARY'S BILL. A long bill. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

RECKON. To reckon with one's host; to make an erroneous judgment in one's own favour. To cast-up one's reckoning or accounts; to vomit.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): RECKON. To reckon with one's host; to make an erroneous judgment in one's own favour. To cast-up one's reckoning or accounts; to vomit. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

BAT. A low whore: so called from moving out like bats in the dusk of the evening.

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HEELS. To he laid by the heels; to be confined, or put in prison. Out at heels; worn, or diminished: his estate or affairs are out at heels. To turn up his heels; to turn up the knave of trumps at the game of all-fours.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HEELS. To he laid by the heels; to be confined, or put in prison. Out at heels; worn, or diminished: his estate or affairs are out at heels. To turn up his heels; to turn up the knave of trumps at the game of all-fours. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

COB, or COBBING. A punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregularities, among themselves: it consists in bastonadoing the offender on the posteriors with a cobbing stick, or pipe staff; the number usually inflicted is a dozen.

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CLUNCH. An awkward clownish fellow.

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MONOSYLLABLE. A woman's commodity.

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TOFSY-TURVY. The top side the other way; i.e. the wrong side upwards; some explain it, the top side turf ways, turf being always laid the wrong side upwards.

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#TIL that ἀδελφός isn't the only Ancient Greek word for "brother."

There was also

βρά.

So when Kids These Days call you "brah," just assume they've been keeping up on their #AncientGreek

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"Facts are becoming less sacred by the day in Donald Trump’s US, where many of his supporters now deny the very existence of truths. To them, inconvenient evidence is by definition 'bias'. His followers and those who fear his fist are falling into line: media, universities and that infamous regiment of tech zillionaires who stood right behind him on inauguration day."

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"In honor of the October 18, 2025, No Kings Day demonstrations happening all over the country, I’m offering the first of three installments of 'The Patriot’s Glossary of MAGAtarian Doublespeak.' May it help illuminate the MAGA attacks on facts and reality, and may we hold onto the truth that will make us free."

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"Since his eruption onto the national political scene, Trump and his MAGA movement have waged not just political battles but an all out war on the very idea that there are such things in the world as facts, reality, and truth."

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"In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt concluded that the ideal subject of authoritarians are not necessarily their most convinced partisan followers, but 'people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.'”

~ Robert P. Jones

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NOLL. Old Noll; Oliver Cromwell.

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People who say #Latin is dead haven’t been to a traditional rite mass at a Catholic Church.

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COCK PIMP. The supposed husband of a bawd.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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UNFORTUNATE GENTLEMEN. The horse guards, who thus named themselves in Germany, where a general officer seeing them very awkward in bundling up their forage, asked what the devil they were; to which some of them answered, unfortunate gentlemen.

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TO FRISK. Used by thieves to signify searching a person

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Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

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DUBBER. A picker of locks. CANT.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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ASK, or AX MY A-E. A common reply to any question; still deemed wit at sea, and formerly at court, under the denomination of selling bargains. See BARGAIN.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): ASK, or AX MY A-E. A common reply to any question; still deemed wit at sea, and formerly at court, under the denomination of selling bargains. See BARGAIN. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

NORTH ALLERTONS. Spurs; that place, like Rippon, being famous for making them.

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TO CLUTCH THE FIST. To clench or shut the hand. Clutch fisted; covetous, stingy. See CLOSE-FISTED.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): TO CLUTCH THE FIST. To clench or shut the hand. Clutch fisted; covetous, stingy. See CLOSE-FISTED. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

AMEN CURLER. A parish clerk.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): AMEN CURLER. A parish clerk. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

BARKSHIRE. A member or candidate for Barkshire, said of one troubled with a cough, vulgarly styled barking.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BARKSHIRE. A member or candidate for Barkshire, said of one troubled with a cough, vulgarly styled barking. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)