Month: March 2019

To stiff the glass ‰ÛÒ a London saying meaning either to fiercely grasp a shot glass of spirits and knock the contents back in one gulp or in more criminal circles, to add poison or some other illicit substance to a person‰Ûªs drink without their knowledge.

To stiff the glass – a London saying meaning either to fiercely grasp a shot glass of spirits and knock the contents back in one gulp or in more criminal circles, to add poison or some other illicit substance to a person’s drink without their knowledge.

— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) December 2, 2019

@CabinetStories Indeed.

Indeed.

— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) December 2, 2019

For where poverty lives in London so does the harsh spirit known as Perishing Cold. Those superstitious souls in the rookies of Repton say it is a real being whose touch makes skeletons and who are we to say otherwise. – Edith Mayne, 1872 https://t.co/ZsaquK0xlY

For where poverty lives in London so does the harsh spirit known as Perishing Cold. Those superstitious souls in the rookies of Repton say it is a real being whose touch makes skeletons and who are we to say otherwise. – Edith Mayne, 1872 pic.twitter.com/ZsaquK0xlY

— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) December 2, 2019

@justincormack @owenbooth Almost certainly, but you know etymologists and dialect debaters, they never like a definitive answer.

Almost certainly, but you know etymologists and dialect debaters, they never like a definitive answer.

— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) December 2, 2019

I will admit not every loan shark signs their menacing notes ‘If anything unpleasant happens thank the faeries’, but that is the Talbot gang for you. – #DSCallaghan

I will admit not every loan shark signs their menacing notes 'If anything unpleasant happens thank the faeries', but that is the Talbot gang for you. – #DSCallaghan

— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) December 3, 2019

@JoolzDenby Proper.

Proper.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) December 2, 2019

@ericmarcus There is an awful lot of sci-fi in Hookland, but its ghost cosmonauts walk hand-in-hand with wood sprites.

There is an awful lot of sci-fi in Hookland, but its ghost cosmonauts walk hand-in-hand with wood sprites.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) December 3, 2019

To see two figures up the way by the watergate and when you get there, they vanish. To never know if they were real or phantom, to never know how they could disappear so quickly. That is to be haunted. That is the everyday in Hookland. – #CLNolan https://t.co/gM1ms1sL2h

To see two figures up the way by the watergate and when you get there, they vanish. To never know if they were real or phantom, to never know how they could disappear so quickly. That is to be haunted. That is the everyday in Hookland. – #CLNolan pic.twitter.com/gM1ms1sL2h

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) December 3, 2019

@wilsonlawrence7 Quite so, quite so.

Quite so, quite so.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) December 3, 2019

The two most desired magical metals in the county are faery silver for the making into siren or calling bells and wolf iron. To own even the smallest amount of true wolf iron is the wish of many cunning folk. – Dr. Bron, 1645

The two most desired magical metals in the county are faery silver for the making into siren or calling bells and wolf iron. To own even the smallest amount of true wolf iron is the wish of many cunning folk. – Dr. Bron, 1645

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) December 3, 2019