A Little Colorful Language: Cacklers, Mowers, Woolbirds and Swing tails
We have a house full of cats and a dog who thinks she a momma-cat. They all have their own proper names. But they’ve also got multiple nicknames each. I may just incorporate a few of these regency Era slang terms as new nicknames for them!
Cat
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Grimalkin.
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Tibby.
Ram Cat. A he cat.
Gib Cat. A northern name for a he-cat, there commonly called Gilbert.
Cherry-coloured Cat. A black cat, their being black cherries as well as red.
Smellers. A cat’s whiskers.
Dog
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Buffer
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Jugelow
Gnarler. A little dog that, by his barking, alarms the family when any person is breaking into the house.
Rum Bugher. A valuable dog.
Horse
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Grogham
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Keffel
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Prad
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Prancer
Rip. A miserable rip; a poor, lean, worn-out horse.
Roarer. A broken-winded horse.
Rum Prancer. A fine horse.
Star Gazer. A horse who throws up his head
Queer Prancer. A bad worn-out foundered horse
Scarlet Horse. A high red, hired or hack horse: a pun on the word hired.
Galloper. A blood-horse, a hunter.
Gibbe. A horse that shrinks from the collar, and will not draw.
Chickens ect
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Cackler.
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Margery Prater.
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Chick-a-biddy.
Sucking Chicken. A young chicken
Cackler’s Ken. A hen-roost.
Cackling Cheats. Fowls.
Cackling Farts. Eggs.
Cobble Colter. A turkey.
Gobbbler. A turkey cock.
Quacking Cheat. A duck.
Tib Of The Buttery. A goose.
Cow
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Dunnock.
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Mower.
Cow’s Spouse. A bull.
Churk. The udder.
Calf
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Blater
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Cow’s Baby
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Essex Lion
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Quaking Cheat
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Rumford lion
Sheep
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Bleating Cheat
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Woolbird
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Havil
Bleating Rig. Sheep-stealing.
Hogs
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Grunter.
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Swing Tail.
Lice
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Active Citizen
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Creepers
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Scotch Greys
Other Animals
Dickey. An ass.
Roll your dickey; drive your ass.
Kingswood Lion. An ass. Kingswood is famous for the great number of asses kept by the colliers who inhabit that place.
Long One. A hare: a term used by poachers.
Pantek. A hart; that animal is, in the Psalms, said to pant after the fresh water brooks
Sea Lawyer. A shark.
Quoted from: Grose, Captain (Francis). (2004) Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1811 ed. Ikon Classics
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