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BARTHOLOMEW BABY. A person dressed up in a tawdry manner, like the dolls or babies sold at Bartholomew fair.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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AWAKE. Acquainted with, knowing the business. Stow the books, the culls are awake; hide the cards, the fellows know what we intended to do.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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AWAKE. Acquainted with, knowing the business. Stow the books, the culls are awake; hide the cards, the fellows know what we intended to do.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HANK. He has a hank on him; i.e. an ascendancy over him, or a hold upon him. A Smithfield hank; an ox, rendered furious by overdriving and barbarous treatment. See BULL HANK.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HANK. He has a hank on him; i.e. an ascendancy over him, or a hold upon him. A Smithfield hank; an ox, rendered furious by overdriving and barbarous treatment. See BULL HANK.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BEARD SPLITTER. A man much given to wenching.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BEARD SPLITTER. A man much given to wenching.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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DUMB WATCH. A venereal bubo in the groin.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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DUMB WATCH. A venereal bubo in the groin.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CHAPERON. The cicisbeo, or gentleman usher to a lady; from the French.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CHAPERON. The cicisbeo, or gentleman usher to a lady; from the French.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BURN THE KEN. Strollers living in an alehouse without paying their quarters, are said to burn the ken. CANT.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BURN THE KEN. Strollers living in an alehouse without paying their quarters, are said to burn the ken. CANT.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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TO CROW. To brag, boast, or triumph. To crow over any one; to keep him in subjection: an image drawn from a cock, who crows over a vanquished enemy. To strut like a crow in a gutter; to walk proudly, or with an air of consequence.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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TO CROW. To brag, boast, or triumph. To crow over any one; to keep him in subjection: an image drawn from a cock, who crows over a vanquished enemy. To strut like a crow in a gutter; to walk proudly, or with an air of consequence.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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GOBBLER. A turkey cock.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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GOBBLER. A turkey cock.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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GAMON AND PATTER. Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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GAMON AND PATTER. Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HERE AND THEREIAN. One who has no settled place of residence.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HERE AND THEREIAN. One who has no settled place of residence.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HUMP. To hump; once a fashionable word for copulation.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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TO HUFF. To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster, bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted bully. To stand the huff; to be answerable for the reckoning in a public house.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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TO HUFF. To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster, bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted bully. To stand the huff; to be answerable for the reckoning in a public house.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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MAGGOTTY. Whimsical, capricious.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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MAGGOTTY. Whimsical, capricious.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HORN COLIC. A temporary priapism.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HORN COLIC. A temporary priapism.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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VALENTINE. The first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman, on St. Valentine's day, the 14th of February, when it is said every bird chuses his mate for the ensuing year.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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VALENTINE. The first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman, on St. Valentine's day, the 14th of February, when it is said every bird chuses his mate for the ensuing year.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CURE ARSE. A dyachilon plaister, applied to the parts galled by riding.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CURE ARSE. A dyachilon plaister, applied to the parts galled by riding.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BLIND HARPERS. Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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DUMMEE. A pocket book. A dummee hunter. A pick-pocket, who lurks about to steal pocket books out of gentlemen's pockets. Frisk the dummee of the screens; take all the bank notes out of the pocket book.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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POT-WABBLERS. Persons entitled to vote for members of parliament in certain boroughs, from having boiled their pots therein. These boroughs are called pot-wabbling boroughs.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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MUMMER. The mouth.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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GOLD DROPPERS. Who drop a piece of gold, which they pick up in the presence of some unexperienced person, this they pretend to have found, and they invite him to a public house to partake of it: when there, comrades drop in, and propose cards, or some other game.

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GOLD DROPPERS. Who drop a piece of gold, which they pick up in the presence of some unexperienced person, this they pretend to have found, and they invite him to a public house to partake of it: when there, comrades drop in, and propose cards, or some other game.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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SNOOZING KEN. A brothel. The swell was spiced in a snoozing ken of his screens; the gentleman was robbed of his bank notes in a brothel.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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SNOOZING KEN. A brothel. The swell was spiced in a snoozing ken of his screens; the gentleman was robbed of his bank notes in a brothel.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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RING. A circle formed for boxers, wrestlers, and cudgel-players, by a man styled Vinegar; who goes round the circle, striking at random with his whip to prevent the populace from crowding in.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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RING. A circle formed for boxers, wrestlers, and cudgel-players, by a man styled Vinegar; who goes round the circle, striking at random with his whip to prevent the populace from crowding in.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CRANK. Gin and water; also, brisk, pert.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BEVER. An afternoon's luncheon; also a fine hat; beaver's fur making the best hats.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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GRINAGOG, THE CAT'S UNCLE. A foolish grinning fellow, one who grins without reason.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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GO, THE. The dash. The mode. He is quite the go, he is quite varment, he is prime, he is bang up, are synonimous expressions.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BULLY. A cowardly fellow, who gives himself airs of great bravery. A bully huff cap; a hector. See HECTOR.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CUR. A cut or curtailed dog. According to the forest laws, a man who had no right to the privilege of the chase, was obliged to cut or law his dog: among other modes of disabling him, one was by depriving him of his tail: a dog so cut was called a cut or curtailed dog.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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FAM LAY. Going into a goldsmith's shop, under pretence of buying a wedding ring, and palming one or two, by daubing the hand with some viscous matter.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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USED UP. Killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedition at Carthagena, where he desired the commander in chief to order him some more grenadiers, for those he had were all used up.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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