Got the MorbsĪn 1880 phrase meaning “ temporary melancholia.” 7. Rather than saying you’re down in the dumps, consider using down in the chops (chops meaning mouth), from 1830, or down in the gills, from 1853. It popped up as far back as 1756 and is still in use today. ‘bedevil’ the sufferer,” according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang. The phrase blue devil, meanwhile, refers to a bout of depression and is so-named because “depressed feelings. Using the blues to refer to feelings of sadness or depression dates back to the 1740s. Black-DogĪccording to The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this term meaning “melancholic, depressed” originated in the UK in 1826. So am being black-assed and temperamental.” Green’s Dictionary of Slang defines black ass as “a state of depression or disgust.” 2.
“Certainly have the Black Ass today,” author Ernest Hemingway wrote in 1945. Many words and phrases have been used to describe depression over the ages here are a few of them. Theodore Roosevelt once said that “black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.” The black care he referred to was depression-and that was far from the only term used to describe the disorder.
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