apothecary's Latin
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apothecary's Latin (uncountable)
- (idiomatic, obsolete) barbarous Latin; badly-spoken Latin.
- 1842, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 333:
- As this bit of apothecary's Latin was quoted to the town-clerk at a corporation dinner, and was by him translated to the mayor to mean that the municipal body had not a leg to stand upon, it gave very serious offence indeed.
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[Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Apothecary's Latin”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.