[lbo-talk] Layd-up-in Lavender

[Dennis Claxton]

This could spice things up here.  Sample entries from a newly 
republished 1699 dictionary of English slang.

Get the funk outta my face! :

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/01/the-belated-books-of-2010-the-first-english-dictionary-of-slang-1699.html

Crap, Money. Nim the crap, to Steal the Money. Wheedle for Crap, to 
coakse Money out of any Body

Fork, a Pick-pocket. Let's fork him, let us Pick that man's Pocket in 
the newest and most dextrous way: It is, to thrust the Fingers, 
straight, stiff, open and very quick into the pocket, and so closing 
them, hook what can be held between them

Funk, Tobacco Smoak; also a strong Smell or Stink.

Layd-up-in Lavender, when any Cloaths or other Moveables are pawn'd 
or dipt for present Money

Nazie, Drunken

Tears of the Tankard, drops of the good Liquor that fall beside

The First English Dictionary of Slang, 1699 is now $25 from the 
University of Chicago Press. Originally published anonymously, the 
2010 version is edited by the Bodleian Library at the University of 
Oxford in England.