19th Century Slang

[keithjones]

The translation of "Call me rusty guts and I'll saw your timber" and other equally colorful terms can be found here:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/03/10/manly-slang-from-the-19th-century/

[Will Howard]

Are you familiar with "flash"?  This was the patois spoken by the New York gangs (as in the movie, "Gangs of New York") in the mid 19th century.

[creagmor]

Hope the following is "SFW".
I still remember the phrase "a month of Sundays", and "off his Chump" is used by Liza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Am familiar with a few of the others, but not as defined here. Obviously various expressions, slang and other wise, change meanings over time. In the 19th century " to ejaculate" meant to exclaim. Used often in the Sherlock Holmes stories, and others.