“Blobber-lippd” implied your mouth was bordered by a thick pair, possibly so protuberant that they hung down or turned right over (yuck).
Just imagine eating scrambled “cackling-farts” for breakfast! Rum, always good in a drink, was an all-around endorsement (good or fine): a “rum-beck” was a justice of the peace, and a “rum-blower” was a handsome mistress. It will come as no surprise to anyone who read Ian’s post on college slang that an “Academy” was a university, but also a “Bawdy-house.” A “Blunderbuss” was a dunce and a “buffle-head” not far from it (much like “pea-goose”). You don’t have to know that “fag the bloss” is “bang the wench” to appreciate that it sounds kind of raunchy: we seem to reserve certain sounds for our feelings of disgust. Bueller, well schooled in, er, French) but it sounds plenty bawdy even devoid of obvious meaning. “ The First English Dictionary of Slang, 1699” or, originally, “A Dictionary of the Beggars and Gypsies Cant” promised to teach ladies and gents high and low “the slang language of the criminal underworld,” especially “names for types of rogue (men and women), gulls or marks, fools, prostitutes, their tricks or cheats, untrustworthy servants, drinking food, gaming, frighting and beating, money, officers of the law, places where crimes were committed, penalties and punishments, articles of jewellery and clothing, parts of the body, and the like.” Much of the slang would be unintelligible to today’s readers (even to those, like Mr. Last week, I stumbled upon some of the oldest evidence for slang's less-than-clean-cut past.
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