1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Mutton-headed. Stupid.

Mutton monger.  A man addicted to wenching.

Mutton.  In her mutton, i.e. having carnal knowledge of a
  woman.

Muzzle.  A beard.

Muzzler.  A violent blow on the mouth.  The milling
  cove tipped the cull a muzzler; the boxer gave the fellow
  a blow on the mouth.

MYNT.  See mint.

MYRMIDONS.  The constable’s assistants, watchmen, &c.

Nab, or nab cheat.  A hat.  Penthouse nab; a large
  hat.

To nab.  To seize, or catch unawares.  To nab the teaze;
  to be privately whipped.  To nab the stoop; to stand in
  the pillory.  To nab the rust; a jockey term for a horse
  that becomes restive.  To nab the snow:  to steal linen
  left out to bleach or dry.  Cant.

To nab girder, or nob girder.  A bridle.

Nack.  To have a nack; to be ready at any thing, to have
  a turn-for it.

NACKY.  Ingenious.

Nailed. Secured, fixed.  He offered me a decus, and I
  nailed him; he offered me a crown, and I struck or fixed
  him.

Nanny house.  A brothel.

To nap.  To cheat at dice by securing one chance.  Also
  to catch the venereal disease.  You’ve napt it; you are
  infected.

Napping.  To take any one napping; i.e. to come upon
  him unexpectedly, to find him asleep:  as, He caught him
  napping, as Morse caught his mare.

Napper.  The head; also a cheat or thief.

Napper of naps.  A sheep stealer.  Cant.

Nappy ale.  Strong ale.

NASK, or naskin.  A prison or bridewell.  The new nask;
  Clerkenwell bridewell.  Tothil-fields nask; the bridewell
  at Tothil-fields.  Cant.

Nation.  An abbreviation of damnation:  a vulgar term used
  in Kent, Sussex, and the adjacent counties, for very. 
  Nation good; very good.  A nation long way; a very long
  way.

Natty lads.  Young thieves or pickpockets.  Cant.

Natural.  A mistress, a child; also an idiot.  A natural
  son or daughter; a love or merry-begotten child, a bastard.

Navy office.  The Fleet prison.  Commander of the
  Fleet; the warden of the Fleet prison.

Nay word.  A bye-word, proverb.

NAZAKENE foretop.  The foretop of a wig made in imi-
  tation of Christ’s head of hair, as represented by the
painters and sculptors.

Nazy.  Drunken.  Nazy cove or mort; a drunken rogue
  or harlot.  Nazy nabs; drunken coxcombs.

Neb, or nib.  The bill of a bird, and the slit of a pen. 
  Figuratively, the face and mouth of a woman; as, She holds
  up her neb:  she holds up her mouth to be kissed.

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