http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/masher/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/masher/#comment-269944 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Dudes, dandies, swells, and mashers Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:32:39 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13260#comment-269944 [...] with Oscar Wilde. Nor should the dude be confused with the masher, an infatuated youngster, the object of an old post in this blog. He too wore ostentatious clothes, but he did so for a purpose. The dude was a thing in itself, a [...] [...] with Oscar Wilde. Nor should the dude be confused with the masher, an infatuated youngster, the object of an old post in this blog. He too wore ostentatious clothes, but he did so for a purpose. The dude was a thing in itself, a [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/masher/#comment-222166 Victorian Slang in Tipping the Velvet. « First We Read, Then We Write. Mon, 30 May 2011 02:45:17 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13260#comment-222166 [...] word masher was most popular from the 1880s to the early 20th century, says the Oxford Etymologist Anatoly Liberman. The word had more of an edge than other terms for dashing womanisers like swell, [...] [...] word masher was most popular from the 1880s to the early 20th century, says the Oxford Etymologist Anatoly Liberman. The word had more of an edge than other terms for dashing womanisers like swell, [...]

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