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Here are some terms from the Victorian Era, which included 1850:
- About right - correct
- Afternoonified - a society term meaning smart or fancy
- Arf-arf-an-arf - drunk, or having had too many 'arf-pints of beer
- Bags o'Mystery - sausages (because no one knew what was in them)
- Batty-fang - a low London phrase meaning to thoroughly thrash (possibly from the French term battre a fin)
- Butter upon bacon - extreme extravagance
- Cat-lap - a society term for tea and coffee, used derogatorily by drinkers of beer and stronger spirits.
- Cop a mouse - to get a black eye (because the color and size of the swelling resembles a mouse)
- Daddles - hands
- Dead certainty - totally certain to occur
- Doing the bear - courting that involves a lot of hugging
- Don't sell me a dog - "Don't lie to me" (from the sale of a mutt dog as a purebred)
- Fifteen puzzle - total and complete confusion
- Gas-pipes - especially tight pants
- Gigglemug - a habitually smiling face
- Half-rats - partially intoxicated
- Mafficking - getting rowdy in the streets
- Mind the grease - "please let me pass" - said in a crowded street or room
- Nanty Narking - great fun
- Not up to dick - not well
- One-horse town - a very small town indeed (supposedly having only one horse in the whole town)
- Orf chump - off your feed, or having no appetite
- Parish pick-axe - a prominent nose
- Poked up - embarrassed
- Rain-napper - an umbrella
- Sauce-box - the mouth
- Shake a flannin - to fight
- Shenanigans - antics, especially when up to no good
- Skilamalink - secretive, shifty, shady or doubtful
- Take the egg - to win
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