One recalls from one's literary travels that A family of irish immigrants in the 19th Century cesspit of London were so notorious that a whole type of behaviour became known by their name. They were the O' Hooligan family. Now before one gets into the shadowy realms of breaking JB ROE, one should point out that one is of emerald extraction.
I also recall reading the late great Pete McCarthy on having a meal in the dodgy environs of the bandit or something mountains in Morocco & the word fell into common usage to describe those herberts what liked to relieve travellers of goods & Chattels.
On this side of the Channel, there was a préfet de police who ordered all rubbish to be put in dustbins on the pavement to be collected. His name was Poubelle
In French a refrigerator is a 'frigidaire' and a ball-point pen is a 'bic'.
I was told once that the Russian for a railway station is something like 'vokhzl' because the Tsar, on a trip to England, was very impressed with the station at Vauxhall.
"silhouette"...............from the name of the French Finance Ministry in 1759 who tried to have the nobility to pay taxes on their land and was sacked for that crime against his time "economy laws".
I don't think "toerag" came from Touareg - surely a "toerag" is a person of little significance, whom one would kick around, thereby polishing ones boots on the "toe rag".
