I'd say Bimbo was around 1930s or thereabouts? Good grid by the way.

Feck. Feck. Feck. This is where we need an edit facility. I've made this easier than I intended by a last minute substitution. It's a red herring light of what it was before I messed with it. It makes the easiest group really easy and once you've got that it wipes out 3 more herrings in one go.

Aye, you're much closer than I guessed Grug. I was way out.

Easier than intended or not I enjoyed it a great deal, excellent grid

Cheers, Aetees

Another good grid. Strange, minikin sounds a complimentary word, like what you might call a small relative. LOL

Names I left out included Pigsy, Heffer, Murrey Kersey, Rib of Man, Meowle, Pussy, Bit of Muslin, Scupper, Tarleather, Uptails And Hay-Bag. Also Mivvy which was going to be the basis of an ice-lolly group until I realised that was a Mivvi.

Nice set. The derogatory group could accept "insults" as the connection.

Nice grid BD - Used to love blackcurrant Cornish mivvis - great youth memories from the 60's.

in Arabic, "Bint" is just the regular word for "daughter". I didn't know about the derogatory meaning!

Don't worry BinDipper- witty, informative and fun, as we've come to expect from you. Had a friend at college affectionately called Binty- (short for Northern Bint) so not so archaic (although college was about 20 yrs ago- god, time flies!)