medical Greek

English

Noun

medical Greek (uncountable)

  1. (UK, 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.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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