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SLANG OF THE MIDDLE AGES
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the late 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The "Middle Ages" first appears in Latin in 1469 as media tempestas or "middle season". In early usage, there were many variants, including medium aevum, or "middle age", first recorded in 1604,and media saecula, or "middle centuries", first recorded in 1625. The adjective "medieval" (or sometimes "mediaeval" or "mediæval"),meaning pertaining to the Middle Ages, derives from medium aevum.
The Middle Ages coined some words and phrases still in use today. You’ll recognize: the apple of one’s eye, baker’s ’s dozen, to play the devil’s advocate, or nest egg. These phrases have never fallen out of our lexicon. This list is not about them. We are looking at slang from medieval times and sadly these words have fallen off our bookshelves. Let’s bring them back!

SLANG OF THE MIDDLE AGES

  • ​BEAUTEOUS - beautiful
  • BELLYTIMBER -food
  • BOUSING-KEN - the pub
  • BUBBLE-BOW - a lady’s pocketbook
  • COX-COMB - a vain person
  • CROOKED NOSE KNAVE - someone that has no class
  • CUMBERWORLD - useless person who takes up space
  • DILLYDOUN - a lullaby
  • DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE - a dirty woman
  • FAUNTKIN - a small child.
  • FOPDOODLE - a dumbass
  • FUSTILUGS - a large, clumsy or gross person
  • HEDGE-BORN - low class
  • HUFTY-TUFTY - a boastful person, a braggart.
  • KEAK - to cackle
  • KISS THE HARE’S FOOT - to miss dinner and be left with the scraps
  • LOITER-SACK - a moocher
  • MALTWORM - a drunk.
  • MUCK-SPOUT - someone who swears a lot
  • NOSE OF WAX - a fickle personality
  • PITCHKETTLED - confused, puzzled.
  • QUISBY - a lazy ass
  • RING-PIGGER - a drunkard, pisshead, alcoholic.
  • RAGGABRASH - a disorganized mess
  • SARD - the f-word of the medieval times
  • SOT - drunk
  • TRINKETS - male genitals.
  • WHIFFLE-WHAFFLE - indecisive flip-flopper
  • WIND-SUCKER - an envious person, a coveter.
  • WOODNESS - madness or insanity​
  • YALDSON - son of a prostitute
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