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IMPUDENT STEALING. Cutting out the backs of coaches, and robbing the seats.

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

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CAT CALL. A kind of whistle, chiefly used at theatres, to interrupt the actors, and damn a new piece. It derives its name from one of its sounds, which greatly resembles the modulation of an intriguing boar cat.

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

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CROSS. To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the conclusion.

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

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DRAGOONING IT. A man who occupies two branches of one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the soldier of that denomination, he serves in a double capacity. Such is a physician who furnishes the medicines, and compounds his own prescriptions.

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

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CLINKERS. A kind of small Dutch bricks; also irons worn by prisoners; a crafty fellow.

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

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GAGE, or FOGUS. A pipe of tobacco.

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

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VINCENT'S LAW. The art of cheating at cards, composed of the following associates: bankers, those who play booty; the gripe, he that betteth; and the person cheated, who is styled the vincent; the gains acquired, termage.

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

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CAPRICORNIFIED. Cuckolded, hornified.

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

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BANAGHAN. He beats Banaghan; an Irish saying of one who tells wonderful stories. Perhaps Banaghan was a minstrel famous for dealing in the marvellous.

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

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MONEY. A girl's private parts, commonly applied to little children: as, Take care, Miss, or you will shew your money.

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

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FRENCH DISEASE. The venereal disease, said to have been imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered by a blow over the snout with a French faggot-stick; i.e. he lost his nose by the pox.

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

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SAVE-ALL. A kind of candlestick used by our frugal forefathers, to burn snuffs and ends of candles. Figuratively, boys running about gentlemen's houses in Ireland, who are fed on broken meats that would otherwise be wasted, also a miser.

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

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WINDER. Transportation for life. The blowen has napped a winder for a lift; the wench is transported for life for stealing in a shop.

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

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LOCK. Character. He stood a queer lock; he bore but an indifferent character. A lock is also a buyer of stolen goods, as well as the receptacle for them.

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

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HUM BOX. A pulpit.

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

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WISE MEN OF GOTHAM. Gotham is a village in Nottinghamshire; its magistrates are said to have attempted to hedge in a cuckow; a bush, called the cuckow's bush, is still shewn in support of the tradition. A thousand other ridiculous stories are told of the men of Gotham.

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

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NIFFYNAFFY FELLOW. A trifler.

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

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GIB CAT. A northern name for a he cat, there commonly called Gilbert. As melancholy as a gib cat; as melancholy as a he cat who has been caterwauling, whence they always return scratched, hungry, and out of spirits.

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

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JUKRUM. A licence.

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

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FLEA BITE. A trifling injury. To send any one away with a flea in his ear; to give any one a hearty scolding.

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

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DRAG. To go on the drag; to follow a cart or waggon, in order to rob it. CANT.

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

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HUMPTY DUMPTY. A little humpty dumpty man or woman; a short clumsy person of either sex: also ale boiled with brandy.

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

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HARP. To harp upon; to dwell upon a subject. Have among you, my blind harpers; an expression used in throwing or shooting at random among the crowd.

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

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@1dalm @histodons
I see what you mean, but that's not what's happening here?

"HARP" is the headword. Two examples of the word "harp" or its derivatives, used in context, then follow.

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CALLE. A cloak or gown. CANT.

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

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LAMB'S WOOL. Apples roasted and put into strong ale.

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

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AMBASSADOR. A trick to duck some ignorant fellow or landsman, frequently played on board ships in the warm latitudes.

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

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TO BEAR THE BELL. To excel or surpass all competitors, to be the principal in a body or society; an allusion to the fore horse or leader of a team, whose harness is commonly ornamented with a bell or bells.

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

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GUNNER'S DAUGHTER. To kiss the gunner's daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishing boys on board a ship of war.

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

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GUT SCRAPER, or TORMENTOR of CATGUT. A fiddler.

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

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TUP RUNNING. A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greased, is turned out to the multitude; any one that can take him by the tail, and hold him fast, is to have him for his own.

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

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CHUNK. Among printers, a journeyman who refuses to work for legal wages; the same as the flint among taylors. See FLINT.

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

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TO COAX. To fondle, or wheedle. To coax a pair of stockings; to pull down the part soiled into the shoes, so as to give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones. Coaxing is also used, instead of darning, to hide the holes about the ancles.

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

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TITTER TATTER. One reeling, and ready to fall at the least touch; also the childish amusement of riding upon the two ends of a plank, poised upon the prop underneath its centre, called also see-saw. Perhaps tatter is a rustic pronunciation of totter.

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

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

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

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SPUNGE. A thirsty fellow, a great drinker. To spunge; to eat and drink at another's cost. Spunging-house: a bailiff's lock-up-house, or repository, to which persons arrested are taken, till they find bail, or have spent all their money:

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

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@GoblinQuester @histodons I think we still say that someone "sponges off" a rich person?

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DILDO. [From the Italian DILETTO, q. d. a woman's delight; or from our word DALLY, q. d. a thing to play withal.] Penis-succedaneus, called in Lombardy Passo Tempo. Bailey.

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

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PUFFING. Bidding at an auction, as above; also praising any thing above its merits, from interested motives. The art of puffing is at present greatly practised, and essentially necessary in all trades, professions, and callings. To puff and blow; to be out of breath.

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

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BOG LATIN. Barbarous Latin. Irish.--See DOG LATIN, and APOTHECARIES LATIN.

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

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LITTLE BARBARY. Wapping.

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

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TO FIGHT A CRIB. To make a sham fight. BEAR GARDEN TERM.

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

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COGUE. A dram of any spirituous liquor.

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TALE TELLERS. Persons said to have been formerly hired to tell wonderful stories of giants and fairies, to lull their hearers to sleep. Talesman; the author of a story or report: I'll tell you my tale, and my talesman. Tale bearers; mischief makers, incendiaries in families.

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

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BANKRUPT CART. A one-horse chaise, said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice, from their being so frequently used on Sunday jaunts by extravagant shop-keepers and tradesmen.

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

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DING BOY. A rogue, a hector, a bully, or sharper. CANT.

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SIR TIMOTHY. One who, from a desire of being the head of the company, pays the reckoning, or, as the term is, stands squire. See SQUIRE.

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

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RIDING SKIMMINGTON. A ludicrous cavalcade, in ridicule of a man beaten by his wife. It consists of a man riding behind a woman, with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman all the while beating him with a ladle.

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

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