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The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue contains nearly 300 pages of slang words and phrases from medieval times. Use this detailed compendium to add authenticity to your NPC's, or to just impress your friends with a vast dialect.
This bookmarked PDF allows you to quickly skip to the section you need for quick reference, and is also printer friendly if you wish to print the entire document to pass around the game table.
Here is an excerpt from pg. 117 of the book:
GOLLUMPUS. A large, clumsy fellow.
GOLOSHES, i.e. Goliah’s shoes. Large leathern clogs, worn
by invalids over their ordinary shoes.
GOOD MAN. A word of various imports, according to the
place where it is spoken: in the city it means a rich man;
at Hockley in the Hole, or St. Giles’s, an expert boxer;
at a bagnio in Covent Garden, a vigorous fornicator; at
an alehouse or tavern, one who loves his pot or bottle;
and sometimes, though but rarely, a virtuous man
GOOD WOMAN. A nondescript, represented on a famous
sign in St. Giles’s, in the form of a common woman. but
without a head.
GOODYER’S PIG. Like Goodyer’s pig; never well but when
in mischief.
GOOSE. A taylor’s goose; a smoothing iron used to press
down the seams, for which purpose it must be heated:
hence it is a jocular saying, that a taylor, be he ever so
poor, is always sure to have a goose at his fire. He cannot
say boh to a goose; a saying of a bashful or sheepish
fellow.
GOOSE RIDING. A goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended
by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts,
a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attempt
to pull off the head: which if they effect, the goose is
their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire within
the memory of persons now living.
GOOSEBERRY. He played up old gooseberry among them;
said of a person who. by force or threats, suddenly puts an
end to a riot or disturbance.
GOOSEBERRY-EYED. One with dull grey eyes, like boiled
gooseberries.
GOOSEBERRY WIG. A large frizzled wig: perhaps from a
supposed likeness to a gooseberry bush.
GOOSECAP. A silly fellow or woman.
GORGER. A gentleman. A well dressed man. Mung
kiddey. Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman.
GOSPEL SHOP. A church.
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue contains nearly 300 pages of slang words and phrases from medieval times. Use this detailed compendium to add authenticity to your NPC's, or to just impress your friends with a vast dialect.
This bookmarked PDF allows you to quickly skip to the section you need for quick reference, and is also printer friendly if you wish to print the entire document to pass around the game table.
Here is an excerpt from pg. 117 of the book:
GOLLUMPUS. A large, clumsy fellow.
GOLOSHES, i.e. Goliah’s shoes. Large leathern clogs, worn
by invalids over their ordinary shoes.
GOOD MAN. A word of various imports, according to the
place where it is spoken: in the city it means a rich man;
at Hockley in the Hole, or St. Giles’s, an expert boxer;
at a bagnio in Covent Garden, a vigorous fornicator; at
an alehouse or tavern, one who loves his pot or bottle;
and sometimes, though but rarely, a virtuous man
GOOD WOMAN. A nondescript, represented on a famous
sign in St. Giles’s, in the form of a common woman. but
without a head.
GOODYER’S PIG. Like Goodyer’s pig; never well but when
in mischief.
GOOSE. A taylor’s goose; a smoothing iron used to press
down the seams, for which purpose it must be heated:
hence it is a jocular saying, that a taylor, be he ever so
poor, is always sure to have a goose at his fire. He cannot
say boh to a goose; a saying of a bashful or sheepish
fellow.
GOOSE RIDING. A goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended
by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts,
a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attempt
to pull off the head: which if they effect, the goose is
their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire within
the memory of persons now living.
GOOSEBERRY. He played up old gooseberry among them;
said of a person who. by force or threats, suddenly puts an
end to a riot or disturbance.
GOOSEBERRY-EYED. One with dull grey eyes, like boiled
gooseberries.
GOOSEBERRY WIG. A large frizzled wig: perhaps from a
supposed likeness to a gooseberry bush.
GOOSECAP. A silly fellow or woman.
GORGER. A gentleman. A well dressed man. Mung
kiddey. Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman.
GOSPEL SHOP. A church.
