Word Grubbers
“Verbal critics, and also persons who use hard words in common discourse.”
Category: Regency
Regency Word Wednesday
Upstarts
“Persons lately raised to honours and riches from mean stations.”
Regency Word Wednesday
Varment
“(Whip and Cambridge.) Natty, dashing. He is quite varment, he is quite the go. He sports a varment hat, coat, etc; he is dressed like a gentleman Jehu.”
Regency Word Wednesday
Thorns
“To be or sit upon thorns; to be uneasy, impatient, anxious for an event.”
Regency Word Wednesday
Scandal Broth
“Tea.”
Regency Word Wednesday
Rigmarole
“Roundabout, nonsensical. He told a long rigmarole story.”
Regency Word Wednesday
Quill Driver
“A clerk, scribe or hackney writer.”
Regency Word Wednesday
Pattering
“The maundering or pert replies of servants; also talk or palaver in order to amuse one intended to be cheated. Pattering of prayers; the confused sound of a number of persons praying together.”
Regency Word Wednesday
One In Ten
“A parson: an allusion to his tithes.”
Regency Word Wednesday
Nick Ninny
“A simpleton.”
Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author 