Academy headache – A headache acquired at an art gallery (or somewhere similar)- Balderdash – Something preposterous or untrue
- Batty-fang – To thrash thoroughly (a London phrase, though possibly originating from “battre à fin” in French)
- Benjo – A noisy, riotous holiday
- Collie shangles – Arguments and quarrels
- Daddles – Hands (originating from boxing terms)
- Drumsticks – A person’s legs
- Evening wheezes – False or made-up news
- Fake a poke – Pickpocketing
- Kruger-spoof – Lying
- Lollygag – Wasting time or dawdling
- Major Macfluffer – A theater phrase for a lapse of memory
- Mouth-pie – Scolding, usually by a woman
- Nanty narking – A tavern term that means having almost too much fun; it may originate from the Welsh word “nant,” or stream, and the term “narking,” which means annoying
- Parish pick-axe – A large or pronounced nose
- Powdering hair – A tavern term for getting drunk
- Rain napper – An umbrella
- Sauce box – The mouth
- Scuttlebutt – Exchanging news and gossip; the term originates from sailors who’d “scuttle” (cut a hole) in a “butt,” or cask, of water and chat while doing so
- Tickety-boo – In good order or condition
