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We use a lot of slang names for parts of the body,\xa0but many of these terms have very old origins.\xa0 A shnozz, another name for your nose, dates back to the 1940s.\xa0You may have heard some people refer to your mouth as a rattle-trap.\xa0\xa0This term originated in the 18th\xa0century and is especially applicable to someone who won\u2019t stop talking.\xa0\xa0The clapper is a 17th-century word for your tongue and refers to how it moves back and forth like the clapper inside a bell.

Dew-beaters\xa0is 19th-century slang for your feet,\xa0alluding to someone knocking the dew off the grass as they walk.\xa0The word was also once used to mean a pioneer or an early riser\u2014namely someone who started their day before anyone else.\xa0And sometimes after a big meal, you might have a case of the trillibubs, mid-1700\u2019s slang for a bloated belly.

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