Much ado about Nothing

[spyglass]

Hi all,
I'm guessing this has probably been debated before.
Ive just read that the term " Nothing" was popular slang in the Elizabethan era for femail genitalia.
I was wondering if Elizabethan slang would still be around in the 1880's.

Regards.

[DJA]

Still around now ...... as long as there are 13 year old boys doing Shakespeare .......

[spyglass]

But would someone like "Eddowes" know it and use it?
you can guess what I'm thinking here

[DJA]

Seriously doubt Eddowes was a prostitute.

She was simply refusing to give her name.

[Wickerman]

Ive just read that the term " Nothing" was popular slang in the Elizabethan era for femail genitalia.

Regards.

Then you might have more than one source for that, can you share any?

[DJA]

Just Google "Elizabethan era nothing genitalia"

[Wickerman]

I must confess to never having done that before.....

[DJA]

Figured that a couple of years back

Cheers.

[Joshua Rogan]

Interesting...it sheds a whole new light on Manuel from Fawlty Towers.

[DJA]