Address.

Some Wodehousian forms of address:

• “old thing”,
• “old egg”,
• “old fruit”,
• “my little chickadee”,
• “you old ass”,
• “my fluttering old aspen”,
• “my dear old mysterious hinter”,
• “old fever patient”,
• “old ancestor”,
• “old thicker than water”,
• “old flesh and blood”,
• “(my dear) old relative”,
• “my dear old faulty reasoner”,
• “you poor chump”,
• “my poor lamb”,
• “my misguided old object”,
• “you ghastly goggle-eyed piece of gorgonzola”,
• “face”,
• “ugly”,
• “aged relative”,
• “you young blot”,
• “my beamish boy”,
• “old blood relation”,
• “you abysmal chump”,
• “Lord Spodecup” (instead of “Lord Sidcup”),
• “my (beautiful) bounding Bertie”,
• “you young hellhound”,
• “you revolting object”,
• “you young muttonhead”,
• “my dear old police sergeant”,
• “poor ditherer”,
• “Attila”,
• “Watson”.