Victorian Slang Terms You'll Want To Incorporate Into Your Daily Vocabulary

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In 1909, writing under the pseudonym James Redding Ware, British writer Andrew Forrester published Passing English of the Victorian Era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase. "Thousands of words and phrases in existence in 1870 have drifted away, or changed their forms, or been absorbed, while as many have been added or are being added," he writes