hopping-Ciles

hopping-Ciles
   obsolete British
   a lame person
   St Giles was the patron saint of cripples in the days when they were accepted as a common and unremarkable feature of society, and before the word cripple was considered derogatory and it became taboo to allude in direct terms to any physical abnormality. A crippled person would also respond to the name Hopkins.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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