#dictionaries — Public Fediverse posts
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University of Central Florida: UCF Researchers Receive NEH Grant to Preserve Noah Webster’s Dictionaries Online. “Researchers in UCF’s Department of English and Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) are slated to receive nearly $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create searchable digital editions of Webster’s historic dictionaries, giving […]
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LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CANNISTER. The head. To mill his cannister; to break his head.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CANNISTER. The head. To mill his cannister; to break his head.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CANNISTER. The head. To mill his cannister; to break his head.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CROAKER. One who is always foretelling some accident or misfortune: an allusion to the croaking of a raven, supposed ominous.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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TO WELL. To divide unfairly. To conceal part. A cant phrase used by thieves, where one of the party conceals some of the booty, instead of dividing it fairly amongst his confederates.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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WELCH RABBIT, Bread and cheese toasted. The Welch are said to be so fond of cheese, that in cases of difficulty their midwives apply a piece of toasted cheese to the janua vita to attract and entice the young Taffy.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
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Irish Post: Funding of €1m will progress project creating historical dictionary of Irish language . “AN ongoing project which will create a dictionary of the Irish language from the 1600s to the present day has received a funding injection of more than €1m. Some €1.1 million has been announced for the Historical Dictionary of Irish or Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge project, which will […]