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Slang and cant in Jerome K. Jerome's works

Note 7 — VULGARISM > COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH

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Cf. the synonymous huffy, grumpy. Humped > humpy; dotted > dotty, etc. are vulgar formations.

I think it ‘à propos’ to quote here the following, well-known story:

A sentimental young lady once went into a new music shop, where the young proprietor had done very little business, and asked sweetly: »Have you got the ‘Bleeding Heart’?» »No», was the answer, »but I have got ‘the bloody hump’!»

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