Fun Time With The Quarter!
Which is it: An Elizabethan Color or Lewd Euphemism?
Test your knowledge of period words with this handy quiz! To check your answers, hover your mouse pointer over the word or phrase in question.
- Puke
- French Velvet
- Gooseturd
- Clodie
- Country Matters
- Rat
- Dying Spaniard
- Pimpillo
- Bone Ache
- Drab
- Maiden's Blush
- Pistol
- Flaxseed
- Pillicock
- Milk-and-Water
- Foutre
- French Malady
- Plunket
Color names found in the chart "16th Century Color names"; naughty words found in the book Naughty Shakespeare by Michael Macrone (Cader Books, 1997)