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If you guys really want some fun, check out Bailey's Canting Dictionary (Thieving Slang), 1736. Learn about pimp-whiskins and zlouches, and find out why you'll want to avoid being frummagemm'd.
Isn't if fun? Without it I would never have found vice admiral of the narrow seas.
Skipvia, that is an *awesome* book!
vowels are much like valves; they are referant emotional inflections that make the connections between the constants of consonants.
Ha! I like that, skipvia. Will have to use it next time I owe money.
Wait...I hate owing money. Never mind.
Wye?
Why?
And if your gambling debt was to the writer George Russell, you could write on your slip: AE IOU.
(v): to avoid paying a gambling debt by repeating the vowels I. O. U., as in "You can vowel me all night long but I'll still take my winnings." From The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Never thought of this as a verb.