Talk:Nosegay
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I have doubts about any claim that the "tussie-mussie" was popular during the Victorian era. "Nosegays" may have been, but OED has no 19th-century citations for "tussie-mussie" in this sense at all--they enter the word as "tuzzy-muzzy," by the way, and suggest that the term was revived in the 20th century, presumably after falling into disuse around the beginning of the 18th century.
A search on Google Books, limiting results to publication dates 1800 to 1900, turns up only a couple of lexicons listing "tussie-mussie" as a synonym for "nosegay"; it gives no actual references to people giving each other "tussie-mussies." Doing the same search for "nosegay" turns up over 800 hits.
65.213.77.129 (talk) 18:32, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
