Twenty-Eight Of The Gang
Some obnoxious surnames and more #Victorian #slang
Our language has lost some marvellous words along the way. Mawwormy was an adjective used to describe someone being picky or the act of fault finding. It owed its origin to a character in Isaac Bickerstaffe’s play of 1769, The Hypocrite. Perhaps being mawwormy is to call a dog that is reluctant to fight a meater, one that only bites into meat. Advertising has long made its mark in popular…
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