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.
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 |
| 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 |
| 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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