Golden Age of the Dandyprat - Sunday Times
What a gem the Sunday Times have come up with this time. Perusing this on my parents’ sofa, I couldn’t help but laugh at some of the hilarious slang terms that were used in the late 18th century. Among the more amusing are “doodle sack” as a euphemism for a woman’s nether regions, and the original definition of the word “nincompoop”, which, to the 18th century speaker, referred to a man who had never laid eyes on his wife’s “doodle sack”. Fabulous reading. The perfect addition to a word-nerd’s Sunday lunchtime.
