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TRUNK. A nose. How fares your old trunk? does your nose still stand fast? an allusion to the proboscis or trunk of an elephant. To shove a trunk: to introduce one's self unasked into any place or company. Trunk-maker like; more noise than work.

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

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): TRUNK. A nose. How fares your old trunk? does your nose still stand fast? an allusion to the proboscis or trunk of an elephant. To shove a trunk: to introduce one's self unasked into any place or company. Trunk-maker like; more noise than work. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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    LAND PIRATES. Highwaymen.

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

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    HULVER-HEADED. Having a hard impenetrable head; hulver, in the Norfolk dialect, signifying holly, a hard and solid wood.

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

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    COSTARD. The head. I'll smite your costard; I'll give you a knock on the head.

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

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    CRABBED. Sour, ill-tempered, difficult.

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

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    CHARACTERED, or LETTERED. Burnt in the hand. They have palmed the character upon him; they have burned him in the hand, CANT.--See LETTERED.

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

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    NEWMAN'S LIFT. The gallows.

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

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    DAB. An adept; a dab at any feat or exercise. Dab, quoth Dawkins, when he hit his wife on the arse with a pound of butter.

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    PIG. Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. Cold pig; a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes, and leaving them to pig or lie in the cold.

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

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    Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): PIG. Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. Cold pig; a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes, and leaving them to pig or lie in the cold. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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    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.

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

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    Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): 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. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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    BIBLE OATH. Supposed by the vulgar to be more binding than an oath taken on the Testament only, as being the bigger book, and generally containing both the Old and New Testament.

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

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    GYLES, or GILES. Hopping Giles; a nick name for a lame person: St. Giles was the tutelar saint of cripples.

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    GREENWICH BARBERS. Retailers of sand from the pits at and about Greenwich, in Kent: perhaps they are styled barbers, from their constant shaving the sandbanks.

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

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    RIBALDRY. Vulgar abusive language, such as was spoken by ribalds. Ribalds were originally mercenary soldiers who travelled about, serving any master far pay, but afterwards degenerated into a mere banditti.

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

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    CHAW BACON. A countryman. A stupid fellow.

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

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    CHURCH WORK. Said of any work that advances slowly.

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

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    MUZZLE. A beard.

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

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    CRISPIN'S LANCE. An awl.

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

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    CODS. The scrotum. Also a nick name for a curate: a rude fellow meeting a curate, mistook him for the rector, and accosted him with the vulgar appellation of Bol--ks the rector, No, Sir, answered he; only Cods the curate, at your service.

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    TROOPER. You will die the death of a trooper's horse, that is, with your shoes-on; a jocular method of telling any one he will be hanged.

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

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    MISS LAYCOCK. The monosyllable.

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

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    BRAN-FACED. Freckled. He was christened by a baker, he carries the bran in his face.

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

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    JACOBITES. Sham or collar shirts. Also partizans for the Stuart family: from the name of the abdicated king, i.e. James or Jacobus. It is said by the whigs, that God changed Jacob's name to Israel, lest the descendants of that patriarch should be called Jacobites.

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    DEMURE. As demure as an old whore at a christening.

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

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    DEATH'S HEAD UPON A MOP-STICK. A poor miserable, emaciated fellow; one quite an otomy. See OTOMY.--He looked as pleasant as the pains of death.

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

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