This term is not approved by the Covent Garden Chamber of Commerce. This term sounds like a rather specific type of gout, and it surely is: Covent Garden gout is venereal disease. Get thee a subscription, word-lovers and slang-sippers! To whet your appetite, here are a few terms from GDoS that drift into the euphemistic side of the road. Unless the wonderful (but incomplete) Historical Dictionary of American Slang ever gets finished, there is no challenger to GDoS for the English Slang Heavyweight Championship of the World.
Jonathon Green has been collecting slang for decades, building his enormous dictionary on a foundation of research and examples, just like the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the largest damn slang dictionary in the world, and it's now online. This month, the euphs are all coming from a single source I wish to celebrate: Green's Dictionary of Slang (GDoS). Every month I collect and inspect a plethora of sneaky terms from sources far and wide, to share a laugh over the human race's ludicrous attempts at lexical trickery.
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