56 Delightful Victorian Slang Terms You Should Be Using | Mental Floss

56 Delightful Victorian Slang Terms You Should Be Using | Mental Floss:

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14. Chuckaboo

A nickname given to a close friend.

15. Collie shangles

Quarrels. A term from Queen Victoria’s journal, More Leaves, published in 1884: “At five minutes to eleven rode off with Beatrice, good Sharp going with us, and having occasional collie shangles (a Scottish word for quarrels or rows, but taken from fights between dogs) with collies when we came near cottages.”

16. Cop a Mouse

To get a black eye. “Cop in this sense is to catch or suffer,” Forrester writers, “while the colour of the obligation at its worst suggests the colour and size of the innocent animal named.”

17. Daddles

A delightful way to refer to your rather boring hands.

18. Damfino

This creative cuss is a contraction of “damned if I know.”

We need to make this happen—way better than fetch, I think you’ll agree. (Also, terribleminds shall hence forth be known as Chuckaboo. Maybe? *runs*)