My bet is that it originated as a common excuse/lie given when visiting a prostitute to friends or spouses. "Oh I'm not going out on the town, I'm visiting my cousin".
It just hit me... The old saying about being "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is *WAY* different that what most postulate. More than likely, "balls" was actually "bails" and (like so many words which actually ended up in a dictionary) someone mistook the i for another l. "Monkey" is clearly a keg, cask, or similar wooden container for alcohol. I'm uncertain about "brass", which could be related to the contents (particularly potent liquor, or perhaps the color) or the wooden slats themselves (which gain a brassy appearance when they're fairly new). In brief, it's cold enough to make the booze inside freeze, expanding enough to snap the bands off the barrel/keg/cask/etc.
Galloping fantods (bad anxiety attack) Hucksanoy (to force or trick into attending an annoying ceremony) Get up a funk (start a beef) Kink (general eccentricity, not just sex: "everyone has their kink" as Jefferson wrote) Respair (return of optimism after despair) Idiocracy needs to be normalized. John Adams saw signs of it and used it, but maybe he wrote it 'idiotocracy'
I think my favorite old-timey word is "Cornobble": to slap or beat someone with a fish. Some other personal favorites: Overmorrow: The day after tomorrow Ereyester (or Ereyesterday): the day before yesterday Dizzard: a fool, jester, or stupid person Ninnyhammer: a fool or simpleton Coolth: coolness (opposite of "warmth") Nunket (as in "an entire Nunketsworth"): the amount of alcohol necessary to intoxicate a draft animal, such as a horse or mule Telliwopper (or Tarriwopper, depending on dialect): a habitual drunkard, particularly one that gets blackout drunk Ambiloquent: using ambiguous language Ramperly: steeply ascending Downsteepy: steeply descending Yerd: to beat with an object or stick Againster: someone who is habitually opposed to (against) things Bilberberries: sheep or goat testicles boiled to make broth Bilberberry wine: the broth made from bilberberries
I can make an entire video on all of the passed down Bronx/NYC street slang from bygone decades my dad taught me. If you have a hard-on for someone (intense hatred), you might hit them with a baggie (a sock full of coins), which was essentially an act of war because that'd require stitches. "Chippin'" is when someone just does a little bit of a drug, a "burner" or a "throw up" is graffiti and "grease the tracks" means hit by a train. "We got static!" means a fight is starting and someone might yet clocked, term coming from the motions your arms make when you're punched in the face. A slug was a fake coin made of wood or wax to trick turnstiles and coin ops; and a fast way to meet the Billies. (All the cops were Irish back then)
I knew "The King's irons" meant shackles which is one of my favorites. Never knew it paired with "Polish (them) with your eyebrows" to mean "You're going to jail." Of course, how could I have? Also, if you took a class back in time, at least three kids in every class are coming back with something they absolutely did not arrive in the past with, and at least one left something behind by accident.
9:04 That part of the story makes a lot of sense since the sausage was called a Frankfurter and it wasn't until the 1900's that the sausage was sold with the bun making the modern hotdog.
1:29 in, Higgledy-Piggledy is still in use, granted from a Brit's perspective. I shall continue watching. Update: We don't use most of it now, I find that younger people tend to try American slang they've picked up, buy you'll still hear some Cockney Rhyming slang amongst older people.
ah Gin.....I can't think of many off the top of my head except for "Mothers Ruin" but last I heard there used to be hundreds of words just for Gin in the 1700s......because it's Gin.....oh also Gin had female names as well such as Mothers Ruin, Mothers Gin, Ladies Delight and Madame Geneva
Personally, i like to use phrases from video games and media to throw people off. Things like: Clanker from Star Wars Split Lip from Halo. Things like that
One of my favorite pieces of historical slang is "grinning at the daisy roots" which means someone is dead. It makes sense since, unless they were cremated, they will kind of be grinning at some kind of plant roots at the very least once they have skeletonized.
3:45 You might not believe this but io games have one of the most unhinged and all kinds of -ist chats a man could ever see . I would know my experience !
@@Jaker788 French, Latin, Spanish. A little bit of everything. And then you come over to Canada and add more French, Cree, and a few others. Nevermind all the different stuff that comes from the rest of the Americas. Languages are fun.
@@Jaker788 That is 100% made-up horseshyte. A language takes on a number of French laonwords, and all of a sudden, there's drama queens running around, going "IT'S 90% FRENCH NOW!". Calm down. Get off the internet. Touch some grass.
sea lawyer is still modern navy slang for a person trying to argue their way out of trouble. Think, "Your syllabus says we cant use 'cell phones' but I turned the cellular off, so really this is a wifi phone and technically its my moms, so you cant take it because its not mine."
Yankee was an insult made by the French about the English, then the English used on the Americans and the confederates used it on the union . The French were originally calling the English cheese heads
@tabathacarruthers5122 apparently to much coffee drinking and the lower classes didn't like the upper classes drinking it so much so they banned it and the noble classes usually made it legal when they got in power. Coffee got banned at 5 different times in Sweden.
Do note some of this slang is made to be coded speech so the police can't really quote you for confessing any kind of crime. So a whole lot of cockney rhymes is all about speaking exactly what you want to say without tipping off to anyone not in the know of the local lingo.
1:41, the tweet. Crossing the street in Ohio? Try walking in West Virginia with no sidewalk or guardrail, a big drop on one side of the road, and someone coming around the mountain at high speeds. You might get hit. You might not. Depends on if the person wants to commit vehicular homicide.
Most of these probably fell out of use as us Brits were too ratarsed to remember them so had to invent new ones. A lot of the poor wound up in the Royal navy, so some of the origins of these probably stem from there and there are still quite a few phrases which are derived from the Royal navy. A great channel for you to check out is robwords, he looks at the origins of words and idioms and has a podcast dedicated to the subject. Fascinating stuff!
Jay is also a slang for a foolish and inattentative person. That's where we got the term "Jaywalking" Put that together with the more widely known slang for "Blue" meaning sad and we get "Blue Jay" the "the Sad and and inattentative Fool"
I think 'sweet' and 'hella' aren't working out. Bring back something to replace them. 'Sweet' doesn't have right sound sequence which is why people have to strain it out: 'SweeeeEEEEEEETTTT!. Compare 'dope', 'rad' and 'awesome'.
Which phrases do we need to bring back?
Dingus definitely needs to come back
@@steeveomcjameson8673 I say it already dingus.
We need to bring back GROOVY
Thornback for a spinster over 25 needs to come back because I like the implication I grow self defense mechanisms as I retain my single status.
34:00 cough georgeian not Victorian cough cough
Meth was called crank because the Hell's Angels used to smuggle it in the crankcase of their motorcycles
Aaaahhhhh. Ok. Makes more sense
Here in brazil, saying a place is the 'House of the cousins' is slag for saying a place is a brothel.
My bet is that it originated as a common excuse/lie given when visiting a prostitute to friends or spouses. "Oh I'm not going out on the town, I'm visiting my cousin".
38:00 Mr. Terry, always remember to rewatch videos before posting XD
At 5:24, if that sweet looking older lady was so innocent and proper, how did she know all that obscene slang?
She was the frenchified Dasher all along
It just hit me...
The old saying about being "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is *WAY* different that what most postulate. More than likely, "balls" was actually "bails" and (like so many words which actually ended up in a dictionary) someone mistook the i for another l. "Monkey" is clearly a keg, cask, or similar wooden container for alcohol. I'm uncertain about "brass", which could be related to the contents (particularly potent liquor, or perhaps the color) or the wooden slats themselves (which gain a brassy appearance when they're fairly new).
In brief, it's cold enough to make the booze inside freeze, expanding enough to snap the bands off the barrel/keg/cask/etc.
The dog that died in space was Laika.
28:30 her name was Laika, and the way I remember that is because she went out "like a" boss
Did you forget to edit the transition at the end for the final thoughts or was that a bit LMAO
Galloping fantods (bad anxiety attack)
Hucksanoy (to force or trick into attending an annoying ceremony)
Get up a funk (start a beef)
Kink (general eccentricity, not just sex: "everyone has their kink" as Jefferson wrote)
Respair (return of optimism after despair)
Idiocracy needs to be normalized. John Adams saw signs of it and used it, but maybe he wrote it 'idiotocracy'
Actually I have heard kink in the way described here in the states a few times.
"Admiral of the narrow sea" makes me wonder WTAF that so many people did that that a phrase for it was needed. LMAO
3:44 it always has been and it always will be LoL
I think my favorite old-timey word is "Cornobble": to slap or beat someone with a fish.
Some other personal favorites:
Overmorrow: The day after tomorrow
Ereyester (or Ereyesterday): the day before yesterday
Dizzard: a fool, jester, or stupid person
Ninnyhammer: a fool or simpleton
Coolth: coolness (opposite of "warmth")
Nunket (as in "an entire Nunketsworth"): the amount of alcohol necessary to intoxicate a draft animal, such as a horse or mule
Telliwopper (or Tarriwopper, depending on dialect): a habitual drunkard, particularly one that gets blackout drunk
Ambiloquent: using ambiguous language
Ramperly: steeply ascending
Downsteepy: steeply descending
Yerd: to beat with an object or stick
Againster: someone who is habitually opposed to (against) things
Bilberberries: sheep or goat testicles boiled to make broth
Bilberberry wine: the broth made from bilberberries
Monty Python perform the Cornobble dance.
I can see "Yerd" coming back.
I can make an entire video on all of the passed down Bronx/NYC street slang from bygone decades my dad taught me. If you have a hard-on for someone (intense hatred), you might hit them with a baggie (a sock full of coins), which was essentially an act of war because that'd require stitches. "Chippin'" is when someone just does a little bit of a drug, a "burner" or a "throw up" is graffiti and "grease the tracks" means hit by a train. "We got static!" means a fight is starting and someone might yet clocked, term coming from the motions your arms make when you're punched in the face. A slug was a fake coin made of wood or wax to trick turnstiles and coin ops; and a fast way to meet the Billies. (All the cops were Irish back then)
white lightning is still used as slang for Prison gin.
30:39 Seriously. Don't look that up. You don't want to know.
I knew "The King's irons" meant shackles which is one of my favorites. Never knew it paired with "Polish (them) with your eyebrows" to mean "You're going to jail."
Of course, how could I have?
Also, if you took a class back in time, at least three kids in every class are coming back with something they absolutely did not arrive in the past with, and at least one left something behind by accident.
So many great moments here. Probably Blue Jay best
16:15 Honestly, if I absolutely had to choose one of them, I'd probably rather be a victim of the vice admiral... At least that doesn't contain chunks
9:04 That part of the story makes a lot of sense since the sausage was called a Frankfurter and it wasn't until the 1900's that the sausage was sold with the bun making the modern hotdog.
You proposed The Magic School Bus but for history.... I'd watch that
1:29 in, Higgledy-Piggledy is still in use, granted from a Brit's perspective. I shall continue watching.
Update: We don't use most of it now, I find that younger people tend to try American slang they've picked up, buy you'll still hear some Cockney Rhyming slang amongst older people.
I assume "one of my cousins" originated from people who were caught talking to prostitutes by others trying to talk their way out of it.
I thought I subscribed to you, now I am. I have to help you keep pace with VTH to 500k.
Missed an edit at the end. Nice glimpse behind the curtain you could say
ah Gin.....I can't think of many off the top of my head except for "Mothers Ruin" but last I heard there used to be hundreds of words just for Gin in the 1700s......because it's Gin.....oh also Gin had female names as well such as Mothers Ruin, Mothers Gin, Ladies Delight and Madame Geneva
As a Brit, I beg for these to come back 😂
Personally, i like to use phrases from video games and media to throw people off. Things like:
Clanker from Star Wars
Split Lip from Halo.
Things like that
Talkative person in Canadian slang -- more tongue than a Mountie's boot.
The best part of this new Bluejay video is watching people cringe in reaction XD
One of my favorite pieces of historical slang is "grinning at the daisy roots" which means someone is dead. It makes sense since, unless they were cremated, they will kind of be grinning at some kind of plant roots at the very least once they have skeletonized.
3:45 You might not believe this but io games have one of the most unhinged and all kinds of -ist chats a man could ever see .
I would know my experience !
War thunder and Warzone is tied I'd say as far as VOIP dialog.
Viddy well, brother, viddy well.
we need to bring back all the old slang
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It's all about gin though.
@@14Rocket i fail to see the problem
It would be a real horror show.
Opium and cocaine was legal still!
English: the day before yesterday
German: vorgestern
Jesus Christ, English...
Considering englush is a Germanic language.
@@darrinrebagliati5365 except for the 90% of French influence it's taken on over time.
@@Jaker788 French, Latin, Spanish. A little bit of everything. And then you come over to Canada and add more French, Cree, and a few others. Nevermind all the different stuff that comes from the rest of the Americas. Languages are fun.
@@Jaker788 That is 100% made-up horseshyte. A language takes on a number of French laonwords, and all of a sudden, there's drama queens running around, going "IT'S 90% FRENCH NOW!".
Calm down. Get off the internet. Touch some grass.
StarvHarv created a video on British History but it was poorly translated.
sea lawyer is still modern navy slang for a person trying to argue their way out of trouble. Think, "Your syllabus says we cant use 'cell phones' but I turned the cellular off, so really this is a wifi phone and technically its my moms, so you cant take it because its not mine."
Yankee was an insult made by the French about the English, then the English used on the Americans and the confederates used it on the union . The French were originally calling the English cheese heads
In Sweden between 1756-1823 coffee got banned multiple times.
I'm half Swedish
Why?!
@tabathacarruthers5122 apparently to much coffee drinking and the lower classes didn't like the upper classes drinking it so much so they banned it and the noble classes usually made it legal when they got in power. Coffee got banned at 5 different times in Sweden.
Mr Terry and VTH collaboration please, and if that’s already happened and I missed it…..great, could we have another one please? 🙏
They've had Livestream before
37:36 sooo what are the odds he just brought back small pox too ....
So we all agree that blue jay had a lot of fun with this one right?
Everybody knows the most unhinhed, raging tirades are coming straight out of Deep Rock Galactic.
...we're rich
Do note some of this slang is made to be coded speech so the police can't really quote you for confessing any kind of crime. So a whole lot of cockney rhymes is all about speaking exactly what you want to say without tipping off to anyone not in the know of the local lingo.
1:41, the tweet. Crossing the street in Ohio? Try walking in West Virginia with no sidewalk or guardrail, a big drop on one side of the road, and someone coming around the mountain at high speeds. You might get hit. You might not. Depends on if the person wants to commit vehicular homicide.
Most of these probably fell out of use as us Brits were too ratarsed to remember them so had to invent new ones.
A lot of the poor wound up in the Royal navy, so some of the origins of these probably stem from there and there are still quite a few phrases which are derived from the Royal navy.
A great channel for you to check out is robwords, he looks at the origins of words and idioms and has a podcast dedicated to the subject. Fascinating stuff!
In South Africa we say "Kat skiet" which is literally the Afrikaans version of shoot the cat
33:27 this is Georgian London. A century before Victorian London. And don't let that picture fool you. Big Ben was not built yet.
38:05 lol
After having heard Musk laugh, I'm convinced he's some sort of alien.
Whelp… I now learned what to soak means 😔
Mr. Terry is going to be HIP at the end of this video (People still say hip right?)
34:51 because you cant trust the free market to self regulate ... never could never will...
Sprained her ankle... the waddle
Higgeldy piggeldy is still in use, just not super common
None of them are used anymore, but for strange phrases that are still used: up the duff = pregnant
BABE wake up ! Mr. Terry History just uploaded a new video!
Growing up we had a slang swear word,"Pampelmuse!" Its German for grapefruit.
Jay is also a slang for a foolish and inattentative person. That's where we got the term "Jaywalking"
Put that together with the more widely known slang for "Blue" meaning sad and we get "Blue Jay" the "the Sad and and inattentative Fool"
Most toxic voice chats?
League of Legends.
Call of Duty.
Valorant.
They are my picks at least. Still going strong.
minecraft its the most toxic game community ever
also i love building in creative mode
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25:04 I dont think they had a term for getting sober
Too late looked at VTH for this, OH ok lets look again.
17:00 As an Englishman, none of them.
I love Blue Jay
Fighting games are still pretty toxic. I think the game with the absolute worst reputation is League Of Legends, though.
Gadzooks!!
3:44 it's definitely CS2
valve just doesn't moderate voice or text chat at all
I think 'sweet' and 'hella' aren't working out. Bring back something to replace them.
'Sweet' doesn't have right sound sequence which is why people have to strain it out: 'SweeeeEEEEEEETTTT!. Compare 'dope', 'rad' and 'awesome'.
28:34 Lajka/Laika. -_-
Bluejays are assholes and bullies to other birds, yet absolutely beautiful
League of Legends has high toxicity.
The most toxic multiplayer games are Counter Strike and Dota 2 BY FAR!
So I looked up soaking..........
Bo'Oh'O'Wa'er
🍾 o'💧
I don’t know if you’ve done this but you should whatch end of the war, it’s a short film about the 2,500 men who died at the end of ww1
Check out this BlueJay reaction next! ruclips.net/video/jsmH8NW0mng/видео.html
Werd
Yeah, bluejay showing his bias even while running an add for a non biased news filter is rather ironic.
Kids today will NEVER understand OG MW2 lobbies let alone understand how we survived them... (We knew they were jokes/talk over a mic)