Mister Slang

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Slang Lexicographer. https://greensdictofslang.com https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com https://jonathongreen.substack.com

New example, from Bluesky and now used in Green's Dict. Slang, for swingers: the testicles.
A map of Nazi London created by artist and cartographer Adam Dant.
US diarist George Templeton Strong writes on 11 Oct, 1860. After a visit by the Prince of Wales, he extols what, in time, would be termed 'the special relationship'.
A brief sample of new entries added to Green's Dict. of Slang over the last 90 days. A full update is due very soon.
Two verses from Rudyard Kipling's 1896 'barrack-room' poem: ‘The Sergeant's Weddin’‘, the tale of twin corruptions well-suited one to each other.
The very final words of the gangster ‘Dutch Schultz’, died of an assassin's bullet 10/23/1935
Three Australian blokes chatting. All have dogs. ‘’Ullo, Bill; where y’ been all th’ week?’ ‘Me dorg’s been sick.’ ‘Well, y’ could ha’ come to town, couldn’t y’’” ‘Yairs, I s’pose I could; but a man looks such a fool without a dorg.’
Cover of a (relatively) early British take on Australia: Frank Fowler's ‘Southern Lights and Shadows’ published 1859. No humans but a range of local flora and fauna (e.g. kangaroo, emu, wombat ?)
The frontispiece of Pierce's Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry & Logic. Our heroic trio say farewell. Death holds court over their final revels. Does fate await in Heaven or is it, we fear, in H___.
From Green's Dict. of Slang: a number of examples of "jay": a rustic, simpleton, a novice and the root of "jaywalking".
A traditional fortune-teller (flowers in the hair, heavy on the jewellery, hands raised prophetically) sits behind her table, and its crystal ball, flower vases and mysterious texts. The caption states: Know What The Future Holds.
Two bottles of deep pink, some say red liquor. The larger, on the right, is a litre of Campari, the smaller, on the left is wild strawberry liquor. The colour is identical. Mixing them also has its charms.
An old illustration of a boy under attack from a goose which, perhaps unhappy at its fate, has seized his left leg. He is wearing a paper hat in honour of the book's content: A Slang Christmas Dinner.
A laughing, black-skinned, claw-footed demon, wearing fawn shorts, leaping a valley and on his back carrying a pile of books roped together and, given his job as demon of typos, presumably badly printed. There are the shafts/feathers three arrows in the right foreground
lines from the poem Germany, You Blond Pale Creature (1920) Translated by Christopher Middleton Quoted for their current pertinence in other countries too.
A concocted spiel offered by a street lookout on obsevring the passing human traffic.