Really Old Dirty Words

Forewarning: Hark! Heed these warning words, for dirty words lie ahead! If ye ken that ye may be easily offended, cease yer reading posthaste! Forsooth!

The vocabulary of the English language is constantly changing, losing old words that fall out of use and adding new words from other languages and the like (ex. "Computer" and "internet", because ye olden people didn’t need those words). Personally, I’m in favor of adding words; however, the idea of losing words is a little harder for me to accept. Especially when they’re gems like these, which might have gotten your mouth washed out with soap several hundred years ago:

• ·         Slattern: noun- meaning prostitute, particularly a dirty one. Possibly the linguistic granny of “slut”?

• ·         Trollop, strumpet: also nouns, also meaning a lady of loose morals.

• ·         Swiving: verb- when a man and a woman love each other very much... they do this. Doesn't it just sound dirty?

Less bad but still old (think of them like lonely, grumpy senior citizen words):

• ·         Suborn: verb- to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing.

• ·         Craven: adj- cowardly

• ·         Prevaricating: adj.- varying from the truth

• ·         Drubbing: verb- severe beating

I know there are other great words out there that have, very sadly, fallen out of use. If you have any suggestions, feel free to comment (and if its something I've never heard before, I'll add it to the list)!