June 30 marks the end of the current 90 days’ worth of new researches and kindred amendments to Green’s Dictionary of Slang. Thus a new update is scheduled to be added to the online database. As has been the custom, I like to post a list of what has been gathered, both the new material - be it from the 15th century to yesterday - and the pre-dates, i.e. those terms that I have managed to push further back in their dating.
I hope to provide this asap but I have yet to construct an automatic system for creating the lists, so I need a few days to get them together the old school, manual way.
Please watch this space.
Meanwhile, thanks to Dr Helen Wickstead of the Kingston School of Art, who found these during her researches and has kindly invited me to talk with her later this year about the existence of such sex-related slang (c. 1834) that flourished during the period that the British Raj ruled India, I offer some Tamil slang.