medical Greek

medical Greek (uncountable)

1. (Britain, historical) The English slang once used by medical students in London hospitals, involving deliberate spoonerisms.
   • 1898, The Pedagogical Seminary (volume 5, page 375)

     Their form is like the "Medical Greek" of London medical students, who "poke a smipe" instead of smoking a pipe, and take a "stint of pout" for a pint of stout.

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary