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(#20) Captain Queernabs
Definition: "A shabby, ill-dressed fellow."
Use: "If you shaved, showered, and put on a tie, you wouldn't be such a Captain Queernabs in your job interviews."
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(#12) Muffin-Wallopers
Definition: "Scandal-loving women, chiefly spinsters, who meet over a cup of tea."
Use: "My grandma wanted me to join her book club's Facebook group, but they're all a bunch of muffin-wallopers who never actually read the books!"
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(#27) Whipt Syllabub
Definition: "A flimsy, frothy discourse or treatise, without solidity." Essentially, meaningless conversation. Named after English dessert drinks that were "made from cream and wine and were served cold."
Use: "I don't enjoy watching reality TV because all the storylines are so fake and everything they say is whipt syllabub."
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(#22) Rantum Scantum
Definition: "Playing at rantum scantum; making the beast with two backs."
Use: "We played at a little rantum scantum in the back of the Uber and now my passenger rating has absolutely plummeted."
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(#19) Fly Rink
Definition: "A polished bald head."
Use: "That biker has a tattoo of a skull on his fly rink, and it's pretty impressive."
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(#10) Bottle-Headed
Definition: "Void of wit."
Use: "It's hard to watch these bottle-headed sitcoms, since none of them have even been funny since Friends."
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During the Renaissance, in order to express new things and new ideas, British writers and scholars borrowed a lot of vocabulary from Greek, Latin, French, etc., and boldly created new words and new languages. This makes English vocabulary unprecedentedly rich, but it also causes confusion due to a number of bizarre puns and slangs. In the 18th century, English gradually moved towards standardization, and many British scholars compiled dictionaries.
The random tool lists 27 interesting English slangs of the 18th century. Social and historical changes have also been driving the change and development of English, and some of these slang transforms are still used by locals.
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