Word of the Month:
According to Frances Grose's, 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
August:
Slush bucket, is a foul feeder, a person that eats too much greasy food.
July:
Buttock and File was a common whore and a pickpocket... Buttock and twang was a common whore but not a pickpocket...
June:
Oyster was a gob of thick phlegm that was coughed up by someone suffering from consumption... Not a pretty sight to think about when you're eating the real thing!
May:
Flustered meant drunk...how many times have you heard someone now-a-days saying they were flustered? Maybe next time you could act shocked, and say "But it's only 8 in the morning!" They may look at you a little crazy, but it would be hilarious!
April:
Skin, was a purse.
March:
Article meant a wench, or a prime girl.
February:
Nonsense meant to melt butter in a wig... Now that doesn't make sense!!! January:
A butt is a dependent, poor relation, or simpleton, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off; and who serves as a butt for all the shafts of wit and ridicule.
A buttock is a whore...Interesting that we now refer to our derrieres in these terms...
December 2007:
A crib was known as a house, and to crack a crib, meant to break in a new house....So for all of you who watch MTV's Cribs, the word has been around for at least 200 years!