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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frank walls" data-source="post: 4641567" data-attributes="member: 77582">On Sale now for $4.99 at the <a href="http://www.store.emptyroomstudios.com/" target="_blank">Empty Room Studios Publishing Store</a>, and <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=1365" target="_blank">RPGNow.</a>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, wornby invalids over their ordinary shoes.GOOD MAN. A word of various imports, according to theplace 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; atan alehouse or tavern, one who loves his pot or bottle;and sometimes, though but rarely, a virtuous manGOOD WOMAN. A nondescript, represented on a famoussign in St. Giles’s, in the form of a common woman. butwithout a head.GOODYER’S PIG. Like Goodyer’s pig; never well but whenin mischief.GOOSE. A taylor’s goose; a smoothing iron used to pressdown the seams, for which purpose it must be heated:hence it is a jocular saying, that a taylor, be he ever sopoor, is always sure to have a goose at his fire. He cannotsay boh to a goose; a saying of a bashful or sheepishfellow.GOOSE RIDING. A goose, whose neck is greased, being suspendedby the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts,a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attemptto pull off the head: which if they effect, the goose istheir prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire withinthe memory of persons now living.GOOSEBERRY. He played up old gooseberry among them;said of a person who. by force or threats, suddenly puts anend to a riot or disturbance.GOOSEBERRY-EYED. One with dull grey eyes, like boiledgooseberries.GOOSEBERRY WIG. A large frizzled wig: perhaps from asupposed likeness to a gooseberry bush.GOOSECAP. A silly fellow or woman.GORGER. A gentleman. A well dressed man. Mungkiddey. Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman.GOSPEL SHOP. A church.</blockquote>

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