COVERSLUT

Since I am equipped with dozens of alternative dictionaries of obscure, forgotten and slang words I might as well utilize them to attract the brainier elements of the interwebs.

To generalize the content of the book is quite easy: it's airy, light-hearted and chock full of Old, Middle and Modern English words that have gone out of style. It is a bit silly, purposely so with accompanying whimsical illustrations, and the writing is a tad Dr. Suessian in that the protocol is generally for several archaic words to be slapped into a paragraph or two of amalgamated and clashing styles though the method varies.

This word group consists of golilla, barilla, muckender, coverslut, penistone, barthlomew-pig, spittle and slibber-sauce. Though I'm only going to cover one at present.

COVERSLUT

A coverslut is an apron or any garment intended to conceal slovenliness. Yorkshiremen wore pensitone coversluts.



Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words by Susan Kelz Sperling