apothecary's Latin

English

Noun

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.

Synonyms

law Latin, dog Latin, bog Latin

Related terms

talk like an apothecary

References

Grose, Francis, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)

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