Have you ever tried saddling a goose? Probably not because this sounds absolutely ridiculous! That’s the point of this insulting phrase though, because it means fool. Maybe it’s better to leave this one to the history books. Basically, a fussock is a woman who is fat or lazy, or just a scruffy-looking old lady. They sure didn’t go easy on the female-themed insults back in the day, and this is another one that is aimed as an insult to women. She placed the spell on Klaus shortly after he was turned into a vampire, when he made his first human kill and triggered his werewolf abilities. If you hung out with the likes of these, you’d probably see more than one jelly-belly at your standard upper class dinner table. The Hybrid Curse was a curse placed on Niklaus Mikaelson by his mother, Esther, in an attempt to keep his werewolf side dormant and limit his power to that of an Original Vampire. For this reason, jelly-belly was reserved primarily for the upper class, like dukes, aristocrats, and royalty. Despite this, and due to being more active, working class people still stayed pretty trim and obesity was rare. In Victorian England people were rumoured to consume many more calories on a daily basis than we do today. Of course, if you use whiffle-whaffle these days you’ll probably just make people hungry for waffles, but it’s still fun to say anyway. If you were to travel back to 16th century Britain you might hear this phrase used to refer to someone who is a time-waster. Now that I’ve learned that, I may start rethinking using thingamajiggy too. Actually, thingumbob is a little more vulgar than that as it can be used to refer to a man’s testicles, or as a vulgar way to reference someone when you don’t know their name. If you’ve heard the word thingamajiggy, or use it to refer to something whose name you can’t recall, then you may be assuming that thingumbob meant something similar back in the day. In Ye Olde England a blowse actually referred almost solely to an unkempt woman, but I think in our modern times we can apply it to anyone! If you’re constantly running out of the house with your hair all askew, leaving your phone forgotten on the kitchen table, and forgetting your keys, you might be a blowse or a blowsbella.
I knew being gangly would come in handy one day. (unless you’re as awesome as Ian McKellen or Elton John), but in this case all you need to do to become a Duke of limbs is to be a tall, awkward individual with limbs for miles. It’s pretty hard to obtain a royal title in the U.K. Imagine a gaunt face on a mop-stick thin body and you’ve got a d eath’s head upon a mop-stick. The definition is actually pretty accurate to the phrase itself, and let me explain why: d eath’s head upon a mop-stick was used to refer to someone who is emaciated, too thin and, in general, miserable. Okay, I nearly snorted coffee through my nose just reading this phrase.