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London in the 1840s was more like a 21st-century Third World megalopolis than a 19th-century city.

Costermongers and Cockney rhyming slang File:1899 Gus Ellen.jpg In the United States, however, both fruit and fruitcake are seen as negative with fruitcake likely originating from "nutty as a fruitcake" (a crazy person). Traces the friendly use of the phrase old fruit (and rarely old tin of fruit) to the 1920s in Britain possibly deriving from the phrase fruit of the womb. In A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address author Leslie Dunkling Slang words in general and gay slang are not always possible to trace as they often cross-pollinate in various subcultures and thus overlap and like most languages change with time with new words being introduced and others dropped altogether. 1.1 Costermongers and Cockney rhyming slang.