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Victorian era slangs - Ok, what exactly is James Joyce's writings about, what is the «JJ Experience» ? Well, it's more about the streaming changes of time + geography + echo-chambers of Babel ... ... (lemm.ee)

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Victorian era slangs - Ok, what exactly is James Joyce's writings about, what is the «JJ Experience» ? Well, it's more about the streaming changes of time and geography and echo-chambers of Babel Tower components. Does that answer your question?

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Gigglemug

First attested in the Victorian Era, from giggle +‎ mug https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigglemug

Poked Up - A Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909) - https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-1909/

That 1909 book is titled "PASSING ENGLISH", which is a great metaphor, how language and metaphor systems (Bible verse John 1:1 metaphors abound) are passed down and around the world.

J. Redding Ware, Passing English of the Victorian Era, a Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang and Phrase (London: Routledge, 1909).