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Lobcocks and Fartleberries: 18th-Century Insults to Confound Your Foes (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Lobcocks and FartleberriesHarking back to a time when insults and rude words were considerably more colourful, this selection from the original slang dictionary of "The Vulgar Tongue" includes such gems as: Bitch Bobby; A country Wench Lobcock; A large relaxed penis; and also a dull inanimate fellow.
Full description- Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
- Published: 12 December 2011
- Format: Paperback 128 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Historical & Comparative Linguistics | Humour | Slang & Dialect Humour
- ISBN 13: 9781849531016 ISBN 10: 1849531013
- Sales rank: 77,089
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Full description for Lobcocks and Fartleberries
If someone called you a beetle-browed bastardly gullion and told you to shut your bone box, would you be offended? If you lived in 1785, you most certainly would! Harking back to a time when insults and rude words were considerably more colourful, this selection from the original slang dictionary of "The Vulgar Tongue" includes such gems as: Bitch Bobby; A country Wench Lobcock; A large relaxed penis; and also a dull inanimate fellow. Captain Francis Grose, an elected fellow of the society of Antiquaries, travelled extensively throughout the British Isles and featured in several of Robert Burns' poems. He died in Dublin of an apoplectic fit in 1791.
