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  1. 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/
  2. 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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  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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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  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/28/irish-post-funding-of-e1m-will-progress-project-creating-historical-dictionary-of-irish-language/