TO WADDLE. To go like a duck. To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts, called his differences, on the Stock Exchange, and therefore absents himself from it.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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QUICK AND NIMBLE. More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or errand that requires dispatch.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BINGO. Brandy or other spirituous liquor. Cant.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BRIDGE. To make a bridge of any one's nose; to push the bottle past him, so as to deprive him of his turn of filling his glass; to pass one over. Also to play booty, or purposely to avoid winning.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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COMMONS. The house of commons; the necessary house.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BOUNG NIPPER. A cut purse. CANT.--Formerly purses were worn at the girdle, from whence they were cut.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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SQUEAKER. A bar-boy; also a bastard or any other child. To stifle the squeaker; to murder a bastard, or throw It into the necessary house.--Organ pipes are likewise called squeakers. The squeakers are meltable; the small pipes are silver. CANT.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Friday's papers: Ruined Moomins, Finland unprepared for future warfare, and where's the beef?
The saturation of Moomins in everyday Finnish life might be diluting Tove Jansson's original work, writes one Helsingin Sanomat columnist.
KNOCK ME DOWN. Strong ale or beer, stingo.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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LOUSE TRAP. A small toothed comb.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CHILD. To eat a child; to partake of a treat given to the parish officers, in part of commutation for a bastard child the common price was formerly ten pounds and a greasy chin. See GREASY CHIN.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BEAST. To drink like a beast, i.e. only when thirsty.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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TO DIDDLE. To cheat. To defraud. The cull diddled me out of my dearee; the fellow robbed me of my sweetheart. See Jeremy Diddler In Raising The Wind.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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HOPPER-ARSED. Having large projecting buttocks: from their resemblance to a small basket, called a hopper or hoppet, worn by husbandmen for containing seed corn, when they sow the land.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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MUMPERS HALL. An alehouse where beggars are harboured.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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