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  • John: Hi I’m John Green. Welcome to my salon. This is Mental Floss on YouTube. Here at mental_floss

  • we've got a growing collection of slang dictionaries. So, today, I’m going to share with you some

  • old school slang with you, like how “a wet sockmeans a limp handshake. The goal here,

  • of course, is to bring some of these awesome slang terms back into style.

  • So let’s get started.

  • [Intro]

  • Happy cabbageis a sizable amount of money to be spent on self-satisfying things.

  • You know, like cabbage. This was the old days.

  • Pang-wangleis to live or go along cheerfully in spite of minor misfortunes. Like Mickey

  • Mouse, who goes on cheerfully despite having a dog who's a friend and also a dog who's

  • a dog. And also, come to think of it, Thor, who goes on despite having Loki as a brother.

  • And Yoda, who goes on despite Luke Skywalker's incessant whining!

  • In the ketchupmeansin the redoroperating at a deficit.”

  • Flub the dubmeansto evade one's duty.” No, DUTY.

  • “A pine overcoatis a coffin.

  • “A butter and egg manhas nothing to do with breakfast preferences. It’s actually,

  • according to one dictionary, “a wealthy but unsophisticated small-town businessman

  • who acts like a playboy when he visits the big city.”

  • Zibis a nincompoop.

  • Togive someone the windis to "jilt a suitor," which, nowadays, we call the Rose

  • Ceremony at The Bachelor.

  • The 1909 book Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang

  • and phrase captured some great phrases that were falling out of favor, even back then.

  • For instance, they called sausages "Bags O' Mystery," which they are. Meredith, what kind

  • of sausages? Pork sausages?! Oh, another quarter for the staff pork chop party fund!

  • Cop a mousemeantto get a black eye.” Not to be confused with the terrifying

  • cock-a-mouse from How I Met Your Mother.

  • Don't sell me a dogwas a fancy way of sayingdon't lie to me.”

  • “A door-knockerwas a type of beardshaved leaving hair under the chin, and upon each

  • side of mouth forming with mustache something like a door-knocker." Damn hipsters.

  • A bald head was called a “fly rink.”

  • “A gigglemugwas a “habitually smiling face.” Whereas a giggleMUGSHOT is a picture

  • of Robert Downey Jr. after he got arrested.

  • “A nose baggerwassomeone who takes a day trip to the beach. He brings his own

  • provisions and doesn’t contribute at all to the resort he’s visiting.”

  • If something or someone wasnot up to dick,” it was not healthy.

  • Take the eggmeans to win. I guess this was back in the days before, like, trophies.

  • Although, come to think of it, an egg might be better than a Dundee.

  • Whooperupswereinferior, noisy singers.” I’m looking at you, William Hung. And also,

  • you, me.

  • “A rain napperwas an umbrella.

  • And your mouth was your sauce box. Context is everything.

  • All right, I gotta keep my sauce box moving. Here's a multi-purpose bit of slang: according

  • to the 1967 Dictionary of American Slang, “pretzel-bendercan mean: a peculiar

  • person, a player of the French horn, a wrestler, or heavy drinker. You add all of those meanings

  • of pretzel-benders together and you have Meredith’s future husband. Am I right Meredith?

  • Meredith: Oh, yes.

  • John: Yeah, I'm right.

  • So what happens when a pretzel-bender drinks too much? Well, we get to use some of these

  • old slang terms for being drunk, like having your flag out, or being soapy-eyed, or full

  • as a tick, or seeing snakes or canned up or zozzled. We enjoy the occasional zozzling.

  • That's why we keep tequila on the wall of magic. Or you could be owled, or striped,

  • or squiffed, or swacked!

  • Moving on to old phrases to describe excessive heat, and they needed a lot of them in the

  • days before air conditioning. "Hotter than Dutch love in harvest." You also

  • frequently heard "the bear got him." (The bear, in this case, was heatstroke.) "Full

  • of moist." And don’t get mad at me for saying the wordmoist,” Internet. It's just

  • a word. All words are created equal. Moist is just--it's a beautiful word. Moist. I'm

  • gonna say it one more time. Moist. And finally, lest you think that our ancestors never worked

  • blue, we have "hot as a half-f**ked fox in a forest fire." Do we have a half-f**ked fox

  • on the wall up here? No? No? There's Linus. Fat lot of good he does us.

  • Then we have the opposite: ways to describe the freezing cold.

  • "It gives a body the flesh-creep," or as we know it, the shivers.

  • It could be "colder than the hinges of hell," or "colder than a brass toilet seat in the

  • Yukon." And lastly, "so cold that the milk cows gave

  • icicles," which I’m pretty sure is scientifically impossible.

  • The 19th-century Australians had some phrases we may want to adopt.

  • Like, to "have one's shirt out" means to be angry. Similarly, someone who's acting crazy

  • is "off his kadoova" or "off his chump."

  • To "hump the swag" means not what you think it means, but to carry your luggage on your

  • back.

  • Happy returnsdescribes vomiting, despite those returns being, at least in my experience,

  • less than happy.

  • And someone who's tipsy could be called “a leanaway.”

  • There’s also some specific Beatnik slang.

  • Like, "off the cob" means corny. And food-related, “red onionis another name for a dive

  • bar.

  • To "focus your audio" means to listen carefully.

  • "Claws sharp" means being well-informed on a variety of topics. You know, like someone,

  • for instance, who’s able to host a list show about a wide variety of topics from children’s

  • television to hoaxes to slang words...

  • But if you know too much, particularly if that information could lead you to ratting

  • someone out, you might have "bright disease." Often fatal. At least in the mafia.

  • Moving on from Beatnik slang, there are actually a lot of old-school ways to call someone a

  • rat. Like "blobber," "cabbage hat," "pigeon," "viper," "telegram."

  • There are also, of course, many interesting words for the male and female anatomy.

  • Like, for guys, we have: "Master John Goodfellow," "gentleman usher," "the staff of life," "the

  • Cyprian scepter," "the maypole," among many others.

  • And for females we have "the Phoenix nest," "the Netherlands," "Mount Pleasant," "Mrs.

  • Fubbsparlor." I'm sure there are others, but now that you have "Mrs. Fubbs' parlor,

  • do you really need others?

  • Anyway, bring these things together and, at least according to the 1811 version of the

  • Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,” you get: "amorous congress," "basket-making,"

  • "blanket hornpipe," or "convivial society."

  • And if you were caught cheating on your significant other a century ago, you could be accused

  • of "carrying tackle," "being on a left-handed honeymoon," or in Shakespeare's time, "groping

  • for trout in a peculiar river."

  • Enough about sex. Let's talk about stuff that really matters: food!

  • "Cluck and grunt" means "ham and eggs." "Chicks on a raft" is "eggs on toast." “Bloodhound

  • in the hay" means "hotdog with sauerkraut," and "frog sticks" means "french fries."

  • "Hounds on an island" is "franks and beans." Any kind of meat served rare is "on the hoof."

  • A "pair of drawers" meant two cups of coffee. AndAdam's ale,” “city juice,” and

  • dog soupall are less-short ways of saying "water."

  • And lastly we return to my salon so that I can tell you that a "George Eddy" is a customer

  • who doesn't tip well, and this former restaurant server would just like to tell you DON'T BE

  • A GEORGE EDDY.

  • Thanks for watching Mental Floss here on YouTube, which is made with the help of all of these

  • nice people. Every week we endeavor to answer one of your mind-blowing questions. This week’s

  • question comes from Emilee Kotnik who asks, “Why do you hear your own voice differently

  • than everyone else?”

  • This is actually a question Mental Floss has answered before so you can find that in the

  • description, but basically, sounds are captured by our outer ear and then strike the ear drum,

  • which vibrates and sends the vibrations to the inner ear, which translates them into

  • signals that the auditory nerve can like understand and then send to the brain.

  • But when we speak, the inner ear is picking up ear drum vibrations in addition to vibrations

  • from inside your body. So like it’s a combination of all those vibrations that makes the sound

  • of your own voice. It makes it very, like, mellifluous, generally. But then when other

  • people hear it, it sounds less full than you know it to secretly be.

  • Anyway, if you have a question that you’d like answered, please leave it below in comments.

  • We'll try to answer as many as we can. Thank you again for watching, and as we say in my

  • hometown, don’t forget to be awesome.

John: Hi I’m John Green. Welcome to my salon. This is Mental Floss on YouTube. Here at mental_floss

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