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.

Prattling box.  The pulpit.

Pray.  She prays with her knees upwards; said of a woman
  much given to gallantry and intrigue.  At her last prayers;
  saying of an old maid.

Preadamite QUACABITES.  This great and laudable society
  (as they termed themselves) held their grand chapter
  at the Coal-hole.

P—–­K.  The virile member.

Prick-eared. A prick-eared fellow; one whose ears are
  longer than his hair:  an appellation frequently given to
  puritans, who considered long hair as the mark of the
  whore of Babylon.

PRICKLOUSE.  A taylor.

Priest-craft.  The art of awing the laity, managing their
  consciences, and diving into their pockets.

Priest-linked. Married.

Priest-ridden.  Governed by a priest, or priests.

Prig.  A thief, a cheat:  also a conceited coxcomical
  fellow.

Prig napper.  A thief taker.

Priggers.  Thieves in general.  Priggers of prancers;
  horse stealers.  Priggers of cacklers:  robbers of hen-
  roosts.

PRIGGING.  Riding; also lying with a woman.

PRIGSTAR.  A rival in love.

Prime.  Bang up.  Quite the thing.  Excellent.  Well
  done.  She’s a prime piece; she is very skilful in the
  venereal act.  Prime post.  She’s a prime article.

PRIMINAKY.  I had like to be brought into a priminary;
  i.e. into trouble; from PREMUNIRE.

Prince prig.  A king of the gypsies; also the head thief
  or receiver general.

Princes.  When the majesty of the people was a favourite
  terra in the House of Commons, a celebrated wit, seeing
  chimney sweepers dancing on a May-day, styled them the
  young princes.

PRINCOD.  A pincushion.  Scotch—­Also a round plump
  man or woman.

Princox.  A pert, lively, forward fellow.

Princum Prancum.  Mrs. Princum Prancum; a nice,
  precise, formal madam.

PRINKING.  Dressing over nicely:  prinked up as if he
  came out of a bandbox, or fit to sit upon a cupboard’s
  head.

Print.  All in print, quite neat or exact, set, screwed up. 
  Quite in print; set in a formal manner.

Priscian.  To break Priscian’s head; to write or speak
  false grammar.  Priscian was a famous grammarian, who
  flourished at Constantinople in the year 525; and who
  was so devoted to his favourite study, that to speak false
  Latin in his company, was as disagreeable to him as to
  break his head.

PRITTLE prattle.  Insignificant talk:  generally applied
  to women and children.

Prog.  Provision.  Rum prog; choice provision.  To prog;
  to be on the hunt for provision:  called in the military
  term to forage.

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