Manly Slang from the 19th Century

The Art of Manliness has a glossary of manly terms used over 100 years ago. Some terms survived well into the 20th century; I've used "a month of Sundays" myself. Others are strange but maybe you can guess the meanings, as in "Shut your bone box, you saucebox, or my bunch of fives will give you a fizzing blinker!" Link -via Boing Boing

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Funny- A "barker" (pistol) also is used in it's translation in Dutch- een "blaffer" for a pistol (Dutch - pistool) or revolver (Dutch- revolver) is still in use.
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Anyone besides me worry about those little packets of ketchup, mustard, dipping sauces etc.? Cuz the cashier, who doesn't wear gloves because they are not prepping food, the one who handles everyone's money, just grabs them with their bare hands, out of open boxes the sit out getting dusty and grimy and god forbid a broken packet smearing up everything, and tosses them in on top of your french fries. And those who do wear gloves? The same gloves for perhaps hours? What good are they in a food prep environment? Everything they touch, their faces, their hair, their clothes, your food, gets cross contaminated. The only one who is safe from anything they touch is themselves.
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