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The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

By Captain Grose, et al., whose href="http://www.languagerealm.com/english/1811vulgardictpreface.php">preface
explains the history and purpose of this work.

A BLASTED FELLOW
or BRIMSTONE - An abandoned rogue or prostitute.
Cant.

A BLOWSE, or
BLOWSABELLA - A woman whose hair is dishevelled, and
hanging about her face; a slattern.

A BUCK OF THE
FIRST HEAD - One who in debauchery surpasses the rest
of his companions, a blood or choice spirit. There are in
London divers lodges or societies of Bucks, formed in
imitation of the Free Masons: one was held at the Rose, in
Monkwell-street, about the year 1705. The p

A SCOLD'S
CURE - A coffin. The blowen has napped the scold's
cure; the bitch is in her coffin.

ABBESS, or LADY
ABBESS - A bawd, the mistress of a brothel.

align=left>ABEL-WACKETS - Blows given on the
palm of the hand with a twisted handkerchief, instead of a
ferula; a jocular punishment among seamen, who sometimes play
at cards for wackets, the loser suffering as many strokes as
he has lost games.

ABIGAIL -
A lady's waiting-maid.

ABRAM -
Naked. CANT.

ABRAM
COVE - A cant word among thieves, signifying a naked
or poor man; also a lusty, strong rogue.

ACADEMY, or
PUSHING SCHOOL - A brothel. The Floating Academy; the
lighters on board of which those persons are confined, who by
a late regulation are condemned to hard labour, instead of
transportation.--Campbell's Academy; the same, from a
gentleman of that name, who had the contrac

ACCOUNTS
- To cast up one's accounts; to vomit.

ACE OF
SPADES - A widow.

ACORN -
You will ride a horse foaled by an acorn, i.e. the gallows,
called also the Wooden and Three-legged Mare. You will be
hanged.--See THREE-LEGGED MARE.

ACT OF
PARLIAMENT - A military term for small beer, five
pints of which, by an act of parliament, a landlord was
formerly obliged to give to each soldier gratis.

ACTEON -
A cuckold, from the horns planted on the head of Acteon by
Diana.

ACTIVE
CITIZEN - A louse.

ADAM
TILER - A pickpocket's associate, who receives the
stolen goods, and runs off with them. CANT.

ADAM'S
ALE - Water.

ADDLE
PATE - An inconsiderate foolish fellow.

ADDLE
PLOT - A spoil-sport, a mar-all.

ADMIRAL OF THE
BLUE - One who carries his flag on the main-mast. A
landlord or publican wearing a blue apron, as was formerly the
custom among gentlemen of that vocation.

ADMIRAL OF THE
NARROW SEAS - One who from drunkenness vomits into
the lap of the person sitting opposite to him. SEA
PHRASE.

ADRIFT -
Loose, turned adrift, discharged. SEA PHRASE.

AEGROTAT,
(CAMBRIDGE) - A certificate from the apothecary that
you are INDISPOSED, (i. e.) to go to chapel. He sports an
Aegrotat, he is sick, and unable to attend Chapel. or Hall. It
does not follow, however, but that he can STRUM A PIECE, or
sport a pair of oars.

AFFIDAVIT
MEN - Knights of the post, or false witnesses, said
to attend Westminster Hall, and other courts of justice, ready
to swear any thing for hire.

align=left>AFTER-CLAP - A demand after the
first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended
omissions; in short, any thing disagreeable happening after
all consequences of the cause have been thought at an
end.

AGAINST THE
GRAIN - Unwilling. It went much against the grain
with him, i.e. it was much against his inclination, or against
his pluck.

AGOG,
ALL-A-GOG - Anxious, eager, impatient: from the
Italian AGOGARE, to desire eagerly.

AGROUND -
Stuck fast, stopped, at a loss, ruined; like a boat or vessel
aground.

AIR AND
EXERCISE - He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has
been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally,
though more vulgarly, expressed, at the cart's arse.

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