The Outlander star puts his knowledge of antiquated insults to the test. Can you guess what a “flotch” is?
This is Tobias Menzies, aka Frank Randall and Black Jack on Outlander.
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Some TV fans may may know Menzies as Edmure Tully on Game of Thrones or Nathaniel Bloom on The Honourable Woman, but most recently, he's been playing two very different characters on Outlander — as Frank Randall, a 20th century reticent history buff, and his ancestor, Black Jack, an 18th century pillaging, pompous tyrant.
While Outlander is primarily set in the Scottish hillsides, in real life, Menzies is English. So we figured that if anyone would know the meaning behind old English insults, it would be him.
The word is: "Butter’d Bun"
"I know what you’re thinking," he laughed. "You’re thinking it’s a bun with lots of butter on it, but you’d be wrong. You know how women put their hair up in buns? I think it’s a woman who’s got a bit drunk, and she’s put a bit too much butter on that hairdo. It’s an old period thing; they used to put butter in their hair. I don’t know why they did. So this is a drunk woman who just got a bit foul with the butter."
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