Showing posts with label David Crystal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Crystal. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Daily Dose
From Words in Time and Place, by David CrystalPEASECOD
"A 'pea pod' -- an unlikely source of a curse, but evidently used by some seventeenth-century playwrights as a mock imprecation. In John Day's The Isle of Gulls (1606, 5.1), Mopsa curses the absent Dorus with 'A peascod on him.'"
From Oaths and Exclamations
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