medical Greek
English
Noun
medical Greek (uncountable)
- (Britain, historical) The English slang once used by medical students in London hospitals, involving deliberate spoonerisms.
- 1898, The Pedagogical Seminary (volume 5, page 375)
- Their form is like the "Medical Greek" of London medical students, who "poke a smipe" instead of smoking a pipe, and take a "stint of pout" for a pint of stout.
- 1898, The Pedagogical Seminary (volume 5, page 375)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary