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.

Props.  Crutches.

Property.  To make a property of any one; to make
  him a conveniency, tool, or cat’s paw; to use him as one’s
  own.

Proud.  Desirous of copulation.  A proud bitch; a bitch
  at heat, or desirous of a dog.

Provender.  He from whom any money is taken on the
  highway:  perhaps provider, or provider.  Cant.

Prophet.  The prophet; the Cock at Temple Bar:  so
  called, in 1788, by the bucks of the town of the inferior
  order.

Prunella.  Mr. Prunella; a parson:  parson’s gowns being
  frequently made of prunella.

To Pry.  To examine minutely into a matter or business. 
  A prying fellow; a man of impertinent curiosity, apt to
  peep and inquire into other men’s secrets.

Public man.  A bankrupt.

Public Ledger.  A prostitute:  because, like that paper,
  she is open to all parties.

Pucker.  All in a pucker; in a dishabille.  Also in a
  fright; as, she was in a terrible pucker.

Pucker water.  Water impregnated with alum, or other
  astringents, used by old experienced traders to
  counterfeit virginity.

Puddings.  The guts:  I’ll let out your puddings.

Pudding-headed fellow.  A stupid fellow, one whose
  brains are all in confusion.

Pudding sleeves.  A parson.

Pudding time.  In good time, or at the beginning of a
  meal:  pudding formerly making the first dish.  To give
  the crows a pudding; to die.  You must eat some cold
  pudding, to settle your love.

Puff, or Puffer.  One who bids at auctions, not with an
  intent to buy, but only to raise the price of the lot; for
  which purpose many are hired by the proprietor of the
  goods on sale.

Puff guts.  A fat man.

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.

Pug.  A Dutch pug; a kind of lap-dog, formerly much in
  vogue; also a general name for a monkey.

Pug CARPENTETER.  An inferior carpenter, one employed
  only in small jobs.

Pug drink.  Watered cyder.

PUGNOSED, or PUGIFIED. A person with a snub or turned
  up nose.

Pully hawly.  To have a game at pully hawly; to romp with women.

Pull.  To be pulled; to be arrested by a police officer. 
  To have a pull is to have an advantage; generally where
  a person has some superiority at a game of chance or
  skill.

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