Medieval swear words tend to include things like God's wounds, God's balls, God's teeth evoking any part of our Lord. Those are the kind of expressions that they would have considered very offensive. And we do have some examples across Europe of people getting into a lot of trouble by saying things like this.
They were usually disposed of in designated pits or simply thrown to latrines (thus latrine pits sometimes harbour very interesting artifacts). The aforementioned trash pits were usually located in the open spaces and close to the city walls.
evanishen v. 1. (a) To disappear from sight, vanish, esp. in a sudden or mysterious manner; ~ awei, ~ sodeinli (sone, etc.),~ from (oute of) sighte, etc.; (b) ben vanished, to disappear; also, be gone from view.
The word “furiosus,” which translates to mad, seems to be the word most often used by medieval contemporaries to describe people acting out of the norm.
The Middle English word relating to madness is “woodnesse” or as a base form, “wod.”Wod is used as an adjective for “mad” and “insane.”The word evolved from an old high German word “wuot” which is associated with rage.
From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“ ...
Among the many eccentricities of King Henry VIII's court, few roles were as peculiar—or as oddly prestigious—as the Groom of the Stool. These personal attendants were responsible for assisting the king with his most private bodily functions, including wiping his bottom after he used the bathroom.
Homosexual subcultures did exist in the Middle Ages, although there are full records for none of them. The total number was small, and they were limited to certain areas. For most of the period there was only the most limited social organization for homosexuals.
Through the water's shimmer, it is clear that she has no pubic hair. A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages suggests that it was the fashion for European aristocratic women to remove their pubic hair, though Penny Howell Jolly notes that “visual evidence of such…
Cop is an old word for the head, making a dalcop (literally a “dull-head”) a particularly stupid person. You can also be a harecop, or a “hare-brained” person.
A person between 30 and 39 is called a tricenarian. A person between 40 and 49 is called a quadragenarian. A person between 50 and 59 is called a quinquagenarian.
Some common synonyms of old are ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, obsolete, and venerable. While all these words mean "having come into existence or use in the more or less distant past," old may apply to either actual or merely relative length of existence.
Last updated on Tuesday, 25/03/2025. Slang words have become integral to modern communication, especially among younger generations. Terms like "Aura Points," "Rizz," and "Mid," bridged the digital and real worlds, spreading through memes and social media.
Get lost is a rude way of telling somebody to “go away” or “stop interfering” (e.g., “Get lost! This is none of your business!”). If you get lost, it means that you do not know where you are while trying to find a location (e.g., “Sorry we're late; we got lost on the way here”).
The Black Death was a plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th-century population.
The adjective toxic is defined as 'poisonous' and first appeared in English in the mid-seventeenth century from the medieval Latin toxicus, meaning 'poisoned' or 'imbued with poison'.
In Old English, moonsick occurs most frequently as an adjective meaning “insane,” “lunatic,” “deranged,” or “epileptic.” The English form of the term first appeared in the tenth century. It occurred most often as an adjective and rarely as a noun (“moonsickness”) or verb.
