I’m as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth goes back to the 18th century. The quip appears in Jonathan Swift’s Polite Conversation, published around 1738, and in the 1811 slang dictionary Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Gail...
joint rag n.— «Magazines produced by prisoners are called “joint rags.”» —“A convict’s look at life on the inside” in Carleton University Carleton Newsroom (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) July 21, 2009...
recess-ipe
n.— «Recess-ipes: 10 meals for $10 each.» —CNN.com Feb. 6, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
witness-mark
n.— «“To the poor is the gospel preached.” They are interwove with the witness-mark of Christianity.» —by Richard Winter Hamilton Sermons (Leeds) , 1846. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
futurescoping n.— «The commission warned if Nottingham is to be a significant European city in the coming decades it must start planning now. The process, known to some as “futurescoping” has begun. Two events have been held...
twazzock
n.— «Here he was acting like a right twazzock, too uncertain to take risks.» —by N.M. Browne Basilisk May 7, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)