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World Wide Words 🌐 The term Albertopolis seems to have been invented in the 1850s, but quickly vanished again and reappeared only as the result of an unsuccessful proposal earlier this decade to extend Albert’s vision.at Albertopolis, n.
World Wide Words 🌐 The term Albertopolis seems to have been invented in the 1850s, but quickly vanished again and reappeared only as the result of an unsuccessful proposal earlier this decade to extend Albert’s vision. World Wide Words 27 Mar. 🌐 It may have been formed after the model of several other similar military expressions. An older one is arsed off, from arse off, a low slang term from the later part of the nineteenth century that meant ‘to leave quickly.’.at arse off (v.) under arse, v.
World Wide Words 9 Dec. 🌐 Adrian is a well-known bit of Australian slang, dating from the 1970s. I’d always associated it with being drunk; [...] The word is supposed to originate in the name of the Australian tennis player Adrian Quist, and is a bit of typical Aussie rhyming slang: Quist = pissed, that is, drunk.at Adrian (Quist), adj.
(ref. to mid-1960s) World Wide Words 🌐 There are other characteristics of the language of Julian and Sandy. They tend to make diminutives of nouns: would you like a bijou drinkette? for example.at bijou, adj.
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