9 Victorian Slang Terms It’s High Time We Revived

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Time to tickle your innards and celebrate the royal baby’s birth.

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MUSIC
Going For Baroque
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STILLS
Retro typographic design elements/ ProVectors
http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-illustration-retro-typographic-design-elements/477459897

Queen Victoria / Wikimedia Commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland

VIDEO
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SOURCES
Boiled owl- very drunk
http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&q=boiled+owl#v=snippet&q=boiled%20owl&f=false
http://archive.org/stream/passingenglishof00wareuoft#page/40/mode/2up

Tallywag- penis
http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&q=boiled+owl#v=onepage&q=tallywags&f=false

Tot-hunting – prowling for women
http://archive.org/stream/passingenglishof00wareuoft#page/248/mode/2up

Jammiest of jams- a near perfect woman
http://archive.org/stream/passingenglishof00wareuoft#page/158/mode/2up

Gas-pipes – tight trousers
http://archive.org/stream/passingenglishof00wareuoft#page/138/mode/2up

Tickle one’s innards – to have a drink
http://archive.org/stream/passingenglishof00wareuoft#page/244/mode/2up

Beer and skittles- good times
http://archive.org/stream/passingenglishof00wareuoft#page/24/mode/2up

Crinkum-crankum – vagina
http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&q=boiled+owl#v=onepage&q=Crinkum-crankum&f=false

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