SLANG TERMS: Do you turn into a gigglemug when you see the jammiest bits of jam? Is that lally-cooler?

Don’t get the morbs, we’re just sharing some slang terms from the 1800s.

You really can find anything on the internet.

A gigglemug is a person who is always smiling. The jammiest bits of jam is an attractive woman. Is that shocking, or lally-cooler? Don’t get the morbs — a feeling of temporary melancholy.

We don’t mean to create a peck of troubles (this one is self-explanatory). We’re just sharing a bit of buncom (nonsense or foolish talk).

We don’t want to start a collie shangles (quarrel) or send someone to the state of butter upon bacon (overdoing it) with the whisky, leaving them tight as a boiled owl (extremely drunk).

No one wants a mutton shunter (policeman) called because they were tickling their innards (drinking something tasty) with giggle water (alcohol).

We hope we used all of these correctly, but we’re not old enough to have been around back in the days when pocket lint was called gullyfluff and to shoot the crow meant leaving a place without paying the bill.

Here is some slang we found on NPR: “The 1880s, part of the Victorian era, had a rich vocabulary of slang. Terms like “blazes” (a swear word), “bricky” (brave), and “chuckaboo” (close friend) were in common usage. Other slang words included “damfino” (damn if I know), “dratted” (a mild swear word), and “escop” (a police officer). Additionally, “foozler” (someone clumsy), “gigglemug” (someone with a constant smile), and “mafficking” (rowdy street behavior) were also part of the slang lexicon.”

Is it all codswallop? (This we know means nonsense, thanks to Hagrid in Harry Potter.)