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  1. MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

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

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  2. MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

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

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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  3. MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

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

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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  4. MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

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

    --
    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  5. MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

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

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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  6. BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

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

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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  7. BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

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

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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  8. BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

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

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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  9. BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

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

    --
    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  10. BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

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

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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  11. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/10/university-of-central-florida-ucf-researchers-receive-neh-grant-to-preserve-noah-websters-dictionaries-online/
  12. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/10/university-of-central-florida-ucf-researchers-receive-neh-grant-to-preserve-noah-websters-dictionaries-online/
  13. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/10/university-of-central-florida-ucf-researchers-receive-neh-grant-to-preserve-noah-websters-dictionaries-online/
  14. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/10/university-of-central-florida-ucf-researchers-receive-neh-grant-to-preserve-noah-websters-dictionaries-online/
  15. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/10/university-of-central-florida-ucf-researchers-receive-neh-grant-to-preserve-noah-websters-dictionaries-online/
  16. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  17. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  18. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  19. 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)

    --
    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  20. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  21. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  22. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  23. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  24. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  25. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

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  31. 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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  32. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  33. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  34. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  35. 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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    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. HURDY GURDY. A kind of fiddle, originally made perhaps out of a gourd. See HUMSTRUM.

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

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  40. HOP MERCHANT. A dancing master. See CAPER MERCHANT.

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

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  41. Traveling Dictionary by Ella Morton, 2026

    A clever pocket-sized dictionary that celebrates travel with hilarious definitions and witty illustrations of terms that globetrotters know and love.

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    #humour

  42. BULLY BACK. A bully to a bawdy-house; one who is kept to oblige the frequenters of the house to submit to the impositions of the mother abbess, and who sometimes pretends to be the husband of one of the ladies, and extorts money from ignorant young men, whom he finds with her.

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

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  43. MYRMIDONS. The constable's assistants, watchmen, &c.

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

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  44. JERRYCUMMUMBLE. To shake, towzle, or tumble about.

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

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