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…that, which is not fit reporting…†
To the Victorians they were inexpressibles (1793), indescribables (1794), etceteras (1794), unmentionables (1823), ineffables(1823), indespensables (1828) innominables (1834-43), inexplicables (1836), and continuations (mid-nineteenth century). What were they? Perhaps this citation from the OED will help: “Shoes off, ineffables tucked up” (1867). No? What about this one: “Liston, in a pair of unmentionables coming halfway down his legs” (1823). Yes, they are trousers, “an article of dress not to be mentioned in polite circles,” as The Century Cyclopedia of 1889 cautions. (Ironically, etceteras had in centuries past been a euphemism for words much more unmentionable than trousers.
(p. 191)
From: Holy Sh*t – A Brief History of Swearing, Melissa Mohr’s fascinating cultural and linguistic history of the words we use frequently and with such relish. It’s published by Oxford University Press (2013) and, yes, “Sh*t” is spelled that way on the cover, even though the even-more verbally sensitive programmers at Microsoft Word will not permit users to spell “Sh*t” that way in the title of any document created using its precious code. Darn. (See p.177)
† For the background to John Marston’s use of this phrase to describe certain ineffable-free activities of Pygmalian and Galatea, see p. 145, if you _______ dare. Strangely, “Pyg-” has been transformed to “Pig-” in this work. Although Marston uses “Pygmalian” in his original, OUP’s editors seem to fear it might be another rude word and have imposed “Pigmalian” instead. Amphibology! (Check p. 130)
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