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The Vulgar TongueTO COG. To cheat with dice; also to coax or wheedle, To cog a die; to conceal or secure a die. To cog a dinner; to wheedle one out of a dinner.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

The Vulgar TongueHUM DRUM. A hum drum fellow; a dull tedious narrator, a bore; also a set of gentlemen, who (Bailey says) used to meet near the Charter House, or at the King's Head in St. John's-street, who had more of pleasantry, and less of mystery, than the free masons.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

Project GutenbergThe Undying UnicornWhat role could a mythical animal play in our lives—centuries after its existence came into question?By: Matthew Wills <a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-undying-unicorn/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://daily.jstor.org/the-undying-unicorn/</a>Books on unicorns at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=unicorn&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=unicorn&submit_search=Search</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mythology</a>

Project GutenbergThe American cultural boom a century on: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Louis Armstrong1925 was a remarkable year for the American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to comeBy Eduardo Lago<a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-04/the-american-cultural-boom-a-century-on-hemingway-fitzgerald-dos-passos-and-louis-armstrong.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-04/the-american-cultural-boom-a-century-on-hemingway-fitzgerald-dos-passos-and-louis-armstrong.html</a><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/420" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/420</a><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6032" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6032</a><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50533" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50533</a><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a>

The Vulgar TongueCLAPPER. The tongue of a bell, and figuratively of a man or woman.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

Bevan Thomas"Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back, The thumb was in, alack! Alack! The door flew open, in he ran, The great, long, red-legg'd scissor-man." - Heinrich Hoffmann, "Little Suck-a-Thumb" 🎨 Heinrich HoffmannIn Hoffmann's nursery rhymes, children are cruelly punished for their bad habits.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookChatWeekly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookChatWeekly</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/31DaysofHaunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#31DaysofHaunting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GermanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GermanLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ChildrensLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChildrensLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/HeinrichHoffmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeinrichHoffmann</a>

The Vulgar TongueCLINCH. A pun or quibble. To clinch, or to clinch the nail; to confirm an improbable story by another: as, A man swore he drove a tenpenny nail through the moon; a bystander said it was true, for he was on the other side and clinched it.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureYou can read William Lithgow’sThe Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricaonline via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gutenberg_org</a> <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61545/61545-h/61545-h.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61545/61545-h/61545-h.htm</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/earlymodern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#earlymodern</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/17thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#17thcentury</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureOne of Scotland’s greatest travellers, William Lithgow – AKA “Lugless Will” – walked some 36,000 miles across Scotland, England, Ireland, much of Europe, North Africa & the Middle East. He endured many hardships, including being tortured by the Spanish Inquisition (although one band of Italian robbers took pity on him & actually gave him money). His ears, however, he lost at home, following an ill-advised romance…<a href="https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2023/12/15/the-painful-peregrinations-of-lugless-will-lithgow-a-17th-century-scottish-traveller/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2023/12/15/the-painful-peregrinations-of-lugless-will-lithgow-a-17th-century-scottish-traveller/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/earlymodern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#earlymodern</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/17thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#17thcentury</a>

Project GutenbergWilliam and Henry James“When Henry James decided to come to America in 1904 and 1905, his elder brother, William James, was not immediately pleased.”By Peter Brooks<a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04/01/william-and-henry-james/?mc_cid=e5deeb6c1d&mc_eid=1ab9ba5038" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04/01/william-and-henry-james/?mc_cid=e5deeb6c1d&mc_eid=1ab9ba5038</a>Books by Henry James at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113</a>Books by William James at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/325" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/325</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a>

The Vulgar TongueTWIST. A mixture of half tea and half coffee; likewise brandy, beer, and eggs. A good twist; a good appetite. To twist it down apace; to eat heartily.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

LaurabunnyAstrid perked up. All this time she'd thought she was having a catastrophic mental breakdown. Now that she knew it was a _perfectly normal_ catastrophic mental breakdown, she could cope.(Andrew Cownden. _Astrid Falls_. Tellwell, 2024, p. 24.)<a href="https://mastodon.social/@AndrewCownden" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@AndrewCownden</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/mentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mentalHealth</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novel</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a>

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊it  was during that same decade that she joined the french communist party, the PCF. no wonder the main theme of the novel to which i alluded at the  start ('abahn sabana david') is the art of refusal & the freedom of  a defiant 'NO!' <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novel</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illustration</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/abahnSabanaDavid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abahnSabanaDavid</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#france</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/margueriteDuras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#margueriteDuras</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/botd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#botd</a>

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a>: imagine being such a gifted author that one of  your most radical & inventive novels was mainly a product of automatic writing? best known, perhaps, for providing the screenplay  that would become alain resnais' 'hiroshima mon amour' - which is not a  bad place to start if you've not yet become acquainted with marguerite duras (born <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#otd</a> in 1914) - she largely escaped acclaim  outside of france. this is regrettable. (threadish) <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/margueriteDuras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#margueriteDuras</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illustration</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#france</a>

Julius Zukowski-KrebsFor today's installment of romance horror, I would like to present to you a Spanish writer who might be known to some of you, but who from my impression has eluded a wider audience in the horror community. I am of course speaking about Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Bécquer might be interesting for various reasons, not least of them, is the darkness he experienced throughout his life, leading to a failed career in the arts and being unknown in his lifetime.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanities</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#horror</a>

Bevan ThomasIn Welsh legends, the fastest of King Arthur's knights were the brothers Henwas and Henbedestyr. Both were quicker than any horse. Their brother Sgilti Light-Foot's footsteps were so light, branches didn't break under him. Even grass didn't bend under his feet. 🎨 Gustave Dore<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FolkyFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkyFriday</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/31DaysofHaunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#31DaysofHaunting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookChatWeekly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookChatWeekly</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WelshMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelshMythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CelticMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CelticMythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Folklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WelshFolklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelshFolklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CelticFolklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CelticFolklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/KingArthur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KingArthur</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Arthuriana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arthuriana</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Arthurian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arthurian</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mabinogion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mabinogion</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GustaveDore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GustaveDore</a>

Benjamin GeerThe words ‘Turk’, ‘Arab’, and ‘Greek’ in the Ottoman Empire in 1899 <a href="https://benjamingeer.name/en/post/khaled-khalifa/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://benjamingeer.name/en/post/khaled-khalifa/</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ottoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ottoman</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalism</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a>

The Vulgar TongueHOBBY. Sir Posthumous's hobby; one nice or whimsical in his clothes.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

Dr Ian McCormickGold star to Lindsey Hilsum, journalist, for picking W.H. Auden's COMPLETE POEMS as her Desert Island Book. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029hvr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029hvr</a>

The Vulgar TongueBUBBLY JOCK. A turkey cock. SCOTCH.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

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