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Rebecca Hendin / Thinkstock / BuzzFeed / Via Francis Grose, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1811 fromoldbooks.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via Eric Partridge, Dictionary of the Underworld 1949 books.google.co.uk
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via English Dialect Dictionary 1898 archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via Eric Partridge, Dictionary of the Underworld 1949 books.google.co.uk
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, Vol 7, 1890) archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via English Dialect Dictionary 1898 archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang 1973, books.google.co.uk
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via English Dialect Dictionary 1898 archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via English Dialect Dictionary 1898, archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via The Works of Francis Rabelais Vol 1, books.google.co.uk
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via OED, Merriam-Webster merriam-webster.com
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang, 1973 books.google.co.uk
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang, 1973 books.google.co.uk
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words Vol 1, 1852 books.google.co.uk
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via Dictionary of the Scots Language 2004 dsl.ac.uk
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed
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Rebecca Hendin / Thinkstock / BuzzFeed / Via The Online Scots Dictionary, scots-online.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via English Dialect Dictionary 1898 archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via JR Ware, Passing English of the Victorian Era 1909, archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via English Dialect Dictionary 1898 archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via English Dialect Dictionary, 1898 archive.org
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Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / Via A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words Vol. 2 1852, books.google.co.uk
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CORRECTION
In an earlier version of this post we misspelled "frobly-mobly". Sorry!
