fooshionless

Updated: May 19, 2025

Scotch, the sorriest of jargons, compared with which even Roth Welsch is dignified and expressive, has yet one word to express what would be inexpressible by any word or combination of words in any language, or in any other jargon in the world; and very properly; for as the nonsense is properly Scotch, so should the word be Scotch which expresses it that word is "fushionless," pronounced fooshionless; and when the writer has called the nonsense fooshionless and he does call it fooshionless he has nothing more to say, but leaves the nonsense to its fate.

George Henry Borrow - The Romany Rye