{"id":5839,"date":"2015-04-08T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2015-04-02T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:30:52","slug":"clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/04\/08\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clement Skitt’s word of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I wanted to have a butcher’s so I took a Dublin packet and slapdash, a bracket-faced seven sided animal gave me a dub o’ th’ hick.”<\/p>\n

Let’s dissect:<\/p>\n

butchers:<\/strong>\u00a0 Cockney slang meaning look.\u00a0 Cockney slang, or rhyming slang, was most prevalent in the East End of London.\u00a0 It consists of replacing a word with the beginning portion of a rhyming phrase.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 substituting ‘look’ with ‘butcher’s hook’ but dropping the ‘hook.’\u00a0 It may have risen to wide use as a way to keep outsiders from a close community (Wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Dublin packet<\/strong>:\u00a0 turn a corner; to ‘take the dublin packet” viz run around the corner – probably a pun on doubling a corner (A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words by John Camden Hotten<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Slapdash<\/strong>:\u00a0 Immediately, instantly, suddenly. (1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Bracket-faced:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ugly, hard-featured (1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Seven sided animal:\u00a0 <\/strong>you know this one \ud83d\ude09<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

dub o’th’hick:\u00a0 <\/strong>A lick on the head (1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose<\/a>)<\/p>\n

So, to sum up “I wanted to have a butcher’s so I took a Dublin packet and slapdash, a bracket-faced seven sided animal gave me a dub o’ th’ hick”\u00a0 means “I wanted to take a look so I turned a corner and suddenly an ugly one eyed man gave me a lick on the head.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I wanted to have a butcher’s so I took a Dublin packet and slapdash, a bracket-faced seven sided animal gave me a dub o’ th’ hick.” Let’s dissect: butchers:\u00a0 Cockney slang meaning look.\u00a0 Cockney slang, or rhyming slang, was most prevalent in the East End of London.\u00a0 It consists of replacing a word with the… Continue reading Clement Skitt’s word of the day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[87,219,104],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-characters","tag-clement-skitt","tag-time-twins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10258,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/08\/31\/slang-at-the-internet-archive\/","url_meta":{"origin":5839,"position":0},"title":"Slang at the Internet Archive","author":"leems","date":"August 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been a little while since Clement Skitt showed up on the bean, but you may have gleaned from Clement Skitt's word of the day that I have a bit of an affinity for vintage slang. 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