This page is meant to serve as a compilation of words and phrases I’ve picked up this year (2015) that I particularly admire or find amusing.
- paper-stainer:
- An author or clerk, in contempt (John Farmer’s Slang and Its Analogues, 1890 – 1904)
- yester-minute
- previous minute
- married all o’er
- Said of women who after their marriage become miserable looking (Georgina Jackson’s Shropshire Word-Book, 1879)