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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
Dicho (Frank Staplin)	BS: Mediaeval Swear Words (71* d)	RE: BS: Mediaeval Swear Words	05 Sep 02
Codswallop could have a past. "Codshead" for stupid fellow appeared in print in 1556 (OED). Wallop has many meanings; codswallop may yet be found in old writings. Shamble, meaning to slaughter or cut up, turns up in print at the end of the 16th C (in time for the English renaissance and Shakespeare) but shamble meant a table for slaughtering meat by 1305, so shamble for slaughter is prob. medieval. Its earliest meaning (ca. 825 AD) was footstool. Later it was a table for counting out money. It is another word with many meanings, so a good candidate for slang expressions.

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