Absurd Historical Slang that Needs to Come Back | BlueJay

Absurd Historical Slang that Needs to Come Back | BlueJay | History Teacher Reacts

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@MrTerry Ай бұрын

Which phrases do we need to bring back?

@steeveomcjameson8673 Ай бұрын

Dingus definitely needs to come back

@Jp41999 Ай бұрын

@@steeveomcjameson8673 I say it already dingus.

@Eto-Ezio Ай бұрын

We need to bring back GROOVY

@ookamiblade6318 Ай бұрын

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.

@firefox5926 Ай бұрын

34:00 cough georgeian not Victorian cough cough

@Frysacidtest Ай бұрын

Meth was called crank because the Hell's Angels used to smuggle it in the crankcase of their motorcycles

@blackfrost273industries4 Ай бұрын

Aaaahhhhh. Ok. Makes more sense

@oldopexpert6869 Ай бұрын

38:00 Mr. Terry, always remember to rewatch videos before posting XD

@dantereinhardt6911 Ай бұрын

Here in brazil, saying a place is the 'House of the cousins' is slag for saying a place is a brothel.

@liamodynsky4871 Ай бұрын

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".

@JKingSniper Ай бұрын

So many great moments here. Probably Blue Jay best

@artao5 Ай бұрын

"Admiral of the narrow sea" makes me wonder WTAF that so many people did that that a phrase for it was needed. LMAO

@shaicat Ай бұрын

28:30 her name was Laika, and the way I remember that is because she went out "like a" boss

@LJ-pi6np Ай бұрын

At 5:24, if that sweet looking older lady was so innocent and proper, how did she know all that obscene slang?

@MichalKolac Ай бұрын

She was the frenchified Dasher all along

@vicnedel02 28 күн бұрын

white lightning is still used as slang for Prison gin.

@Camoucrimson Ай бұрын

Did you forget to edit the transition at the end for the final thoughts or was that a bit LMAO

@twylanaythias Ай бұрын

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_Anti-Guide Ай бұрын

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.

@darnelldavis1409 Ай бұрын

You proposed The Magic School Bus but for history.... I'd watch that

@JennyEverywhere Ай бұрын

The dog that died in space was Laika.

@markusnielsen9170 Ай бұрын

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

@LJ-pi6np Ай бұрын

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'

@trentondickey9061 Ай бұрын

Actually I have heard kink in the way described here in the states a few times.

@PopeSixtusVI Ай бұрын

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)

@arcticbanana66 Ай бұрын

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

@Rhianalanthula Ай бұрын

Monty Python perform the Cornobble dance.

@boowho817 Ай бұрын

I can see "Yerd" coming back.

@psych0CS2 Ай бұрын

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

@04nimmot Ай бұрын

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.

@Nolroa Ай бұрын

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.

@woodchuck94og Ай бұрын

3:44 it always has been and it always will be LoL

@DemonicSkeletron Ай бұрын

Missed an edit at the end. Nice glimpse behind the curtain you could say

@HA1LILPALAZZO Ай бұрын

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

@KarmasAB123 Ай бұрын

The best part of this new Bluejay video is watching people cringe in reaction XD

@Jarakin Ай бұрын

30:39 Seriously. Don't look that up. You don't want to know.

@oliversherman2414 Ай бұрын

As a Brit, I beg for these to come back 😂

@billcipher4368 Ай бұрын

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 !

@MegaMrMinecraft1 22 күн бұрын

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.

@tommcdonald1873 Ай бұрын

I thought I subscribed to you, now I am. I have to help you keep pace with VTH to 500k.

@SpencerIrish Ай бұрын

StarvHarv created a video on British History but it was poorly translated.

@johanandersson7141 Ай бұрын

Mr Terry and VTH collaboration please, and if that’s already happened and I missed it…..great, could we have another one please? 🙏

@JKingSniper Ай бұрын

They've had Livestream before

@R.W.Raegan Ай бұрын

War thunder and Warzone is tied I'd say as far as VOIP dialog.

@mikitz Ай бұрын

Viddy well, brother, viddy well.

@WanderingWriter Ай бұрын

we need to bring back all the old slang

@leviitor4263 Ай бұрын

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@14Rocket Ай бұрын

It's all about gin though.

@WanderingWriter Ай бұрын

@@14Rocket i fail to see the problem

@mikitz Ай бұрын

It would be a real horror show.

@demus7587 Ай бұрын

Opium and cocaine was legal still!

@HBomb157 27 күн бұрын

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."

@asszudemi3650 Ай бұрын

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.

@CrisSelene Ай бұрын

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.

@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman Ай бұрын

In Sweden between 1756-1823 coffee got banned multiple times.

@oliversherman2414 Ай бұрын

I'm half Swedish

@tabathacarruthers5122 Ай бұрын

Why?!

@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman Ай бұрын

@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.

@DeReAntiqua Ай бұрын

English: the day before yesterday German: vorgestern Jesus Christ, English...

@darrinrebagliati5365 Ай бұрын

Considering englush is a Germanic language.

@Jaker788 Ай бұрын

@@darrinrebagliati5365 except for the 90% of French influence it's taken on over time.

@darrinrebagliati5365 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@DeReAntiqua Ай бұрын

@@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.

@ednac1626 Ай бұрын

Growing up we had a slang swear word,"Pampelmuse!" Its German for grapefruit.

@bionicgeekgrrl Ай бұрын

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!

@Carter-d4n Ай бұрын

Whelp… I now learned what to soak means 😔

@sagethegreat4680 Ай бұрын

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

@ParkerAndres-tm8bo Ай бұрын

So we all agree that blue jay had a lot of fun with this one right?

@TamagoSenshi Ай бұрын

None of them are used anymore, but for strange phrases that are still used: up the duff = pregnant

@SwineBrothers Ай бұрын

After having heard Musk laugh, I'm convinced he's some sort of alien.

@karoovanderwesthuizen8321 Ай бұрын

In South Africa we say "Kat skiet" which is literally the Afrikaans version of shoot the cat

@firefox5926 Ай бұрын

37:36 sooo what are the odds he just brought back small pox too ....

@curtisberard7831 Ай бұрын

Talkative person in Canadian slang -- more tongue than a Mountie's boot.

@billcipher4368 Ай бұрын

Mr. Terry is going to be HIP at the end of this video (People still say hip right?)

@milliegoodwin5389 Ай бұрын

Higgeldy piggeldy is still in use, just not super common

@DongBags9319 Ай бұрын

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.

@Nightmare-Stricken Ай бұрын

Everybody knows the most unhinhed, raging tirades are coming straight out of Deep Rock Galactic. ...we're rich

@jwiderstra Ай бұрын

Sprained her ankle... the waddle

@firefox5926 Ай бұрын

34:51 because you cant trust the free market to self regulate ... never could never will...

@Foyay_Red Ай бұрын

38:05 lol

@asszudemi3650 Ай бұрын

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"

@barriehull7076 Ай бұрын

Too late looked at VTH for this, OH ok lets look again.

@billcipher4368 Ай бұрын

BABE wake up ! Mr. Terry History just uploaded a new video!

@antonakesson Ай бұрын

Most toxic voice chats? League of Legends. Call of Duty. Valorant. They are my picks at least. Still going strong.

@NicholasFadow-o4q Ай бұрын

minecraft its the most toxic game community ever also i love building in creative mode

@NicholasFadow-o4q Ай бұрын

@generalcodsworth4417 4 күн бұрын

25:04 I dont think they had a term for getting sober

@SuspiciousSilence Ай бұрын

Fighting games are still pretty toxic. I think the game with the absolute worst reputation is League Of Legends, though.

@tobiasglendenning7966 Ай бұрын

17:00 As an Englishman, none of them.

@mjp121 Ай бұрын

I love Blue Jay

@LJ-pi6np Ай бұрын

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'.