Are you a snollygoster or a throttlebottom? SUSIE DENT explores English's lost lexicon of exotic put-downs

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Are you a snollygoster or a throttlebottom? SUSIE DENT explores English's lost lexicon of exotic put-downs

The new volume of the Oxford Dictionary Of English offered more than 350 ways of poking fun at someone. Compliments, on the other hand, totalled just 40.