Regency Words: Addle plot

Addleplot – spoil sport, someone who disrupts or interferes with someone else’s enjoyment or plans. The term is said to date from around the 1690s. Continue

Addleplot – spoil sport, someone who disrupts or interferes with someone else’s enjoyment or plans. The term is said to date from around the 1690s. Continue

Regency Reader Question I began to wonder about the term Corinthian as described in Georgette Heyer’s books. It seems to have become a part of Continue
The Flash Dictionary,1821 I have seen a romance author or two reference this, and honestly I think at the time I probably thought they meant Continue

There is no clear history for the word bamboozle, a popular slang to describe a hoax, fib or confusion of a person. There are some Continue