Great Archaic Ways To Insult Someone

claims that he has the best words. Regardless if nothing else comes out of this latest incident, at least the word dodord is having a moment. Here's what it means, as well as a few more insulting terms that have gone the way of the dodo but that we're hoping at some point will enjoy their own renaissance. So Kim Jong un called Donald Trump a do modored What is

that exactly? The term goes back to the thirteen hundreds and means someone who's in his or her dotage, which, according to the Miriam Webster Dictionary, is quote a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness. In recent years, dodored has primarily shown up in writing about the arts. Have you ever met someone who sticks to their ways despite being shown better

or more correct approaches. Perhaps you've got that relative who just prefers not to use smartphone shortcuts or hot key combinations on their laptop. Congrats, you are related to a mumpsimus. Miriam Webster suggests that the etymology of mumpsimus goes back to an illiterate priest who mistakenly used the term in place of the Latin word sumpsimus, which means we have taken. He did this during a mass ritual, but refused to

correct himself even after the error was pointed out. Now, everyone's got that pedantic friend who only interrupts or chimes in to correct another person. You may call them nitpicky, no it alls who lived to contradict with an irritating well technically or just plain old man splainers, But why not call them a snout band? That is the forgotten old English insult, and that's what it means snout band.

The med lar, however, is a type of hard skinned fruit with a gaping open apex, and the only time it's soft enough to eat is when it's on the verge of going bad, so it was often associated with rotten nous and showed up in insulting references to prostitution, genitals and rear ends. In post Renaissance England, medlars were often called open arses due to their appearance, making for plenty of word play in insult potential in poems and plays.

Shakespeare in particular enjoyed the medlar, using the word as a pun on Medler in Time and of Athens, and for some of Mecurtio's teasing of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. Jokes about medlars appeared even earlier than that, though, popping up in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the late foe century. But what do you call someone who, shrewd and cunning as they may be, seems to be motivated by no principles whatsoever, especially if that someone is in politics. Well,

snolly gostar is the term you're looking for. Popularized in the eighteen nineties by the Georgia politician Colonel H. J. W. Ham, the term goes back at least a half decade more than that. In eight Ohio newspaper defined it thus Lee quote. A snolly gowstar is a fellow who wants office regardless of party platform er principles, and who, whenever he wins,

gets there by the sheer amount of monumental talk. Na fickle Assumancy who snollygastar disappeared from much of the twenty century, but enjoyed a brief resurgence during President Harry S. Truman's nineteen fifty two re election campaign, when he used the term in reference to other candidates. And here's our last one. You want to insult someone's cooking, call that play in front of you a slum gullion. The words gone through some changes over its life span, but today it means

an unappetizing or cheaply made stew. In eighteen fifty ones, Moby Dick Herman Melville used the phrase slobgollian to refer to the waste from processing whale carcasses, and the word slum gullion shows up that same decade in Miner's Diaries, describing a slurry leftover from mining gold. In eighteen seventy two, when Mark Twain used the word in his semi autobiographical book Roughing It, he was using it to refer to a disgusting beverage, and within two decades it was used

to refer to muddy looking stews. Today's episode was written by Christopher hasiotis produced by Tristan McNeil, and For more on this and other topics, please visit us at how stuff works dot com