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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 4m

That was why I do what I do. Big fun.

Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 5m

finally, wry neck = hanging day. The hanged individual (but surely male here, though NB the notorious Moll Flanders who cross-dressed but wasn't hanged) had a 'wry mouth and pissen (pair of) britches'

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 11m

Think is penis, because 'lead apes in hell' ('ape-carrier') = an old maid, a trad. slang. dildo fan.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 15m

My first thought is line 1, which is a 'live' use of a phr. I have rarely seen outside dicts. Would you have chapter and verse for your text? As for handle=penis. Did a jakes actually have a handle. They were created 1596 so maybe lit. But could be for the door?

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 3h

For those who use Green's Dict. of Slang, the latest update #40 is now available on line. For more info and links to files of new terms and predated examples of current material, please check jonathongreen.substack.com/p/gdos-updat...

jonathongreen.substack.com

GDoS Update #40

Happy Birthday Dear Dic-tion-’reeee...

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Launched in 2016 GDoS digital will (on 12 Oct.) have notched up a decade of updates. This is #40 and here - jonathongreen.substack.com/p/gdos-updat... - are a few comments thereupon, with links to the new terms added and to the predates of existing material. The update itself will be along shortly.

jonathongreen.substack.com

GDoS Update #40

Happy Birthday Dear Dic-tion-’reeee...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New post out from @ldfreedman.bsky.social "Operation Vivaldi: The Four Seasons" What have we learnt from Ukraine's successful counter-attack in Donetsk? Looks at command, use of drones, and the Russian's endless capacity for self-deception. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/operation-...

samf.substack.com

Operation Vivaldi: the four seasons

Surprise, deception, and operation security - lessons from Ukrainian success

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And, if I may, the GDoS version is attached (more easily read here: greensdictofslang.com/entry/4rbbfnq) Meanwhile, *bluenose* n. is here: greensdictofslang.com/entry/hmhr5ja And *bluenosed* is here: greensdictofslang.com/entry/px4mana

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Damn! That is beyond kind. Not to mention an inspiration to live up to it.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Friday night scene at pub-kicking-out time in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry (2021) by British artist and illustrator, James Murray aka Jim'll Paint It #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I’m fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I’m a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

October 1, 2026

John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Phillips O’Brien: Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/divide-and...

phillipspobrien.substack.com

Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe

And Why It Could Work

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have you read Richard Usborne’s Clubland Heros? Deals with Yates at length.

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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S. today. Testifying under oath was Jack Smith, who as special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice investigated Trump’s attempt

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

September 29, 2026

The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good luck to you both from France

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t know the chapter and verse (though I would love to have it) but he was definitely not alone:

The scan of the entry for ‘love muscle’ as listed in Green's Dictionary of Slang. Two senses, the first of which is the penis and offers citations from 1958-2024. The second is a New Zealand prison term, depicting a vain inmate obsessed with his appearance.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@theoldbatsman.bsky.social However much Johnson ( or whoever it was) railed vs puns, I find 'Afghan' infinitely pleasing.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Drummond St has Indian Spice Shop. Best outside Southall.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gary’s dictionary, which I have been allowed to incorporate where useful into GDoS (took me a year) mixes slang and SE, SAmE, SAusE. And his focus was very much on matters gay. Used a lot of porn and personal ads like that.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, Gary Simes has this quote - homophobic or hetero-ditto? - in his unpub. DLSS: a personal ad in the gay weekly Sydney Star Obs (Aug. 1999): ‘Balaclava hooded straight boy wants his leather tight buns worshipped by poofs. Beg him to strip — feed you his hairy pussy.’

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my latest round of ‘Slang Knows’ best, I offer *ballie up* to put on a balaclava with criminal intent, in order to perform a burglary, robbery, daylight murder, rape, or any other crime that employs the wearing of a balaclava to ensure the perpetrator’s anonymity. Wotcher reckon, Tommo?

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Given that 'fighting age' is 18-45 and the loathsome Godwin is 44, why isn’t he in unform? Though it would, of course, be all black. (And who knows, behind that balaclava, maybe the little shit already is).

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The great JT, the ‘Water Poet’.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

youtube.com

Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As for visits, we'd pick up my father on Sat. evening and help him lug sacks of farthings (etc) to the bank's nearby night safe. Went back 50 yrs later to do a lit fest. Very strange experience. My dame school was on its last day (I cldn't resist a visit), the old house was smaller. Usual stuff.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lincoln. Two Jewish families. Plus my prep school (in Woodhall Spa, home of the Dam Busters - I remember them making the movie) had a school song based on a major local blood libel c. 1200, that of matza fodder, 'Little St Hugh'. Which name conveniently rhymes with... WTF?! thought 10-yr-old moi.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My father was an M&S manager. I recall something called 'sandwich spread'. Not a good OMG now, though at the time I lapped it up. (Looked like outside the pub late Sat. nite.) OTOH his store (demographically selected for such launches) introduced fruit yoghurts and avocados to the mass mart c. 1960.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shabbos goy! A very old occupation, if only once-a-week. There's kopecks in it.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me too and I imagine many like us. We had a great big bakelite altar to all those stations. You turned a nob and a pointer moved. But only used it for Home Service/Light Prog IIRC.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

VictorianLondon.bsky.social Looking for a digital version of Edited by Edmund Yates ‘Devil in London’, then ‘Asmodeus, or, The Devil in London‘, finally, ‘Asmodeus in London’ (1832). Weekly penny paper. Don't think it's available, but might you have met it?

victorianlondon.bsky.social

VictorianLondon (@victorianlondon.bsky.social)

Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023) ... new book out soon 'Covent Garden: A People's Histor...

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What use is NordVPN if it blocks and cuts off my wifi connection more often than it permits my workflow?

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great and fascinating piece. And if Hilversum, surely Droitwich (or thus it was on our old steam radio c. 1953)

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes please. All I can see at the moment for UK is kindle. Maybe that’ll change. Meanwhile, I trust you’re well. If you’re ever down Marseille way… maybe not but I’d happily come up to Paris for a lunch.

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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

104-year-old woman imparts some wisdom about the orange shit stain disgracing our White House today. #ProudBlue #FDT

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m very keen to read it. My days of knowing review eds are gone. But my agent is on the job.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@petersokolowski.bsky.social Would you know an answer? I want to review the book but fear review eds in UK at least nix kindle-only texts.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On cult London crime master Derek Raymond, and the madness and genius of his ‘black novels’ Enter the Factory… harrysword.substack.com/p/enter-the-...

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@petersokolowski.bsky.social Is the book going to appear in the UK (or France) in anything but a kindle version?

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

post à coupler avec l'indispensable atlas sonore des langues régionales, peut-être la page internet la plus réjouissante de tous les temps si on est un peu nerd et curieux atlas.lisn.upsaclay.fr

atlas.lisn.upsaclay.fr

Atlas sonore des langues

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lost smell and taste (not a good idea when living in France). Didn't consciously have covid but everyone assures me that would have been the cause. I'm surprisingly philosophical - I've had much good food and drink over the years - but it’s all down to texture now and that has serious limits.

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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Brits have been racist since the Danes. Didn't need black people, but their turn would come.

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