Regency Words: Bang Up

We recently featured the Bang Up gentleman’s hat, and you may have been wondering where that expression came from. Grose, F. (1811). A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Continue
We recently featured the Bang Up gentleman’s hat, and you may have been wondering where that expression came from. Grose, F. (1811). A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Continue
In the Regency, instead of being green with envy, the colour depicting jealousy was yellow! If you were said to look yellow, you were said Continue
Frequently, in Regency recounts of dances and balls, the expression “trip the light fantastic toe” was used. Based on a line in the 15th century Continue
A reader was looking for some Regency slang meaning robbed: Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1823) The above are two examples you will Continue