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.

Piss maker.  A great drinker, one much given to liquor.

Piss pot hall.  A house at Clapton, near Hackney, built
  by a potter chiefly out of the profits of chamber pots, in the
  bottom of which the portrait of Dr. Sacheverel was depicted.

Piss prophet.  A physician who judges of the diseases of
  his patients solely by the inspection of their urine.

Piss-proud.  Having a false erection.  That old fellow
  thought he had an erection, but his—­was only piss-
  proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife.

Pissing down any one’s back.  Flattering him.

Pissing pins and needles.  To have a gonorrhea.

Pit.  A watch fob.  He drew a rare thimble from the swell’s
  pit.  He took a handsome watch from the gentleman’s
  fob.

Pit.  To lay pit and boxes into one; an operation in midwifery
  or copulation, whereby the division between the
  anus and vagina is cut through, broken, and demolished: 
  a simile borrowed from the playhouse, when, for the benefit
  of some favourite player, the pit and boxes are laid together. 
  The pit is also the hole under the gallows, where
  poor rogues unable to pay the fees are buried.

PITT’S picture.  A window stopt up on the inside, to save
  the tax imposed in that gentleman’s administration.  Party wit

Pit-A-pat.  The palpitation of the heart:  as, my heart
  went pit-a-pat.  Pintledy-pantledy; the same.

Pitch-KETTLED. Stuck fast, confounded.

Pitcher.  The miraculous pitcher, that holds water with
  the mouth downwards:  a woman’s commodity.  She has
  crack’d her pitcher or pipkin; she has lost her maidenhead.

PIZZY club.  A society held, A. D, 1744, at the sign of
  the Tower, on Tower Hill:  president, Don Pizzaro.

Plaister of warm guts.  One warm belly’dapped to another;
  a receipt frequently prescribed for different disorders.

Plant.  The place in the house of the fence where stolen
  goods are secreted.  Any place where stolen goods are concealed.

To plant.  To lay, place, or hide.  Plant your wids and
  stow them; be careful what you say, or let slip.  Also to
  bury, as, he was planted by the parson.

Plate.  Money, silver, prize.  He is in for the plate; he
  has won the Keat, i.e. is infected with the venereal disorder: 
  a simile drawn from hofse-racing.  When the plate
  fleet comes in; when money comes to hand.

Platter-faced. Broad-faced.

Play.  To play booty; to play with an intention to lose.  To
  play the whole game; to cheat.  To play least in sight;
  to hide, or keep out of the way.  To play the devil; to be
  guilty of some great irregularity or mismanagement.

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