Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Exasperate
verb (common).—To over-aspirate the letter H.
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1857. REV. E. BRADLEY (‘Cuthbert Bede’), The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, pt. II., ch. ix. Mr. Bouncer replies, with a footman’s bow, and a footman’s hEXASPERATION of his h’s.
