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Victorian Slang of the Week – My Aunt

“I’m going to see my aunt” was a phrase mostly used by women from around 1850 onwards – meaning to go to the toilet.

This entry can’t bring itself to talk other than entirely in euphemisms though, so instead of WC we get the wonderful “closet of decency” and “house of office”.

On this page, I Also love “My Lord” – a nickname given to a hunchback. And “My nabs” – the phrase “his nibs” still exists but the version referring to yourself is now very obscure.

But “My aunt”, though. What does it mean? Is it this…….?

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