38 Colorful Slang Terms From Colonial Times

For some the English language already has way too many "vulgar" terms, but those of us who like a bit of colorful language in our lives are always on the lookout for new entries to add to our book of bad words.

People in Colonial times used all kinds of smutty slang terms like crinkum crankum, apple dumpling shop and twiddle-diddles that sound pretty classy when compared to the coarse terms we use for those body parts today.

And thanks to Francis Grose's book Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, which was first published in 1811 and is now available in its entirety via Project Gutenberg, we can talk trash like they did in the olden days.

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