What are the slang words in the 1850s?

Answer 1

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