Plaintive linguistic problem
Oct. 12th, 2008 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vcmwThe Online Etymology Dictionary informs me that both "to suck" and "to blow", when used to indicate the negative qualities of a situation, are VERY recent coinages (like, this century recent).
If one wished to indicate this with a slang that sounded modern and colloquial to current readers, are there any pre-1750 coinages that anyone reading this knows? I think I'll go poke around for a Shakespearean insult dictionary online.
If one wished to indicate this with a slang that sounded modern and colloquial to current readers, are there any pre-1750 coinages that anyone reading this knows? I think I'll go poke around for a Shakespearean insult dictionary online.
