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A feebily distracting thread, in very poor taste, of medieval English bodily noises
Mind your manners — don’t ROSP (gag), RIFT or BOLK (belch) or SAY QUACK (fart)
Russell’s Book of Nurture advises: ‘Be yoxinge ne bolkynge ne gronynge [groaning] never the more’
![A feebily distracting thread, in very poor taste, of medieval English bodily noisesMind your manners — don’t ROSP (gag), RIFT or BOLK (belch) or SAY QUACK (fart)Russell’s Book of Nurture advises: ‘Be yoxinge ne bolkynge ne gronynge [groaning] never the more’](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWdbZk7WkAEVRnq.jpg "A feebily distracting thread, in very poor taste, of medieval English bodily noisesMind your manners — don’t ROSP (gag), RIFT or BOLK (belch) or SAY QUACK (fart)Russell’s Book of Nurture advises: ‘Be yoxinge ne bolkynge ne gronynge [groaning] never the more’")
Mind your manners — don’t ROSP (gag), RIFT or BOLK (belch) or SAY QUACK (fart)
Russell’s Book of Nurture advises: ‘Be yoxinge ne bolkynge ne gronynge [groaning] never the more’
YOXING or YEXING is either hiccuping or belching
The drunk miller in Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale ‘yexeth [belches or hiccups], and he speketh thurgh the nose’
The drunk miller in Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale ‘yexeth [belches or hiccups], and he speketh thurgh the nose’
Two medieval English hiccup cures:
‘If a man holdith his brethe, his YOSKING wole cese’
‘Who-so hath the ȜOXING…Sey kyrielesen [Kyrie eleison ]…and hold in thy breth as long as thou myght, and sope [sup] thre sopis [mouthfuls] of eysel [vinegar], and hit schal gon away’
‘If a man holdith his brethe, his YOSKING wole cese’
‘Who-so hath the ȜOXING…Sey kyrielesen [Kyrie eleison ]…and hold in thy breth as long as thou myght, and sope [sup] thre sopis [mouthfuls] of eysel [vinegar], and hit schal gon away’
Belching or burping is BOLKING or RIFTING
The personification of Slothfulness in Piers Plowman ‘bygan benedicite with a bolke’, he starts his blessing with a belch
As Richard Rolle explains, ‘wha sa [whoever] riftes it semes that he is ful’
The personification of Slothfulness in Piers Plowman ‘bygan benedicite with a bolke’, he starts his blessing with a belch
As Richard Rolle explains, ‘wha sa [whoever] riftes it semes that he is ful’
A FART can also be a FIST, a RAPPE, a CRACK or a BLAST in Middle English
Chaucer has a famously noisy appreciation of flatulence in the Summoner’s Tale:
'The rumblynge of a fart, and every soun [sound],
Nis [is nothing] but of eir [air] reverberacioun'
Chaucer has a famously noisy appreciation of flatulence in the Summoner’s Tale:
'The rumblynge of a fart, and every soun [sound],
Nis [is nothing] but of eir [air] reverberacioun'
You can SNORE, SNORT and SNESE but also FNORT, FNESE, or NESE
A translation of Higden's Polychronicon tells us that a 'consuetude [custom] began that a man nesynge, peple beynge by use to say “Criste help the”’, i.e. achoo, bless you!
A translation of Higden's Polychronicon tells us that a 'consuetude [custom] began that a man nesynge, peple beynge by use to say “Criste help the”’, i.e. achoo, bless you!
Herod is such a baddie in the Towneley Plays that the Slaughter of the Innocents makes him wheezy with laughter: ‘I lagh that I whese!’
The noisiest Middle English body I know is the one in the poem translated in this blog post: http://stylisticienne.com/the-sounds-of-old-age/
The noisiest Middle English body I know is the one in the poem translated in this blog post: http://stylisticienne.com/the-sounds-of-old-age/
Would help if I could spell 'feebly' in the first tweet, though in my defence it is pronounced 'feebily' in this house...
