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.

Snout.  A hogshead.  Cant.

Snowball.  A jeering appellation for a negro.

To snub.  To check, or rebuke.

Snub devil.  A parson.

Snub nose.  A short nose turned up at the end.

SNUDGE.  A thief who hides himself under a bed, in Order
  to rob the house.

Snuff.  To take snuff; to be offended.

To snuffle.  To speak through the nose.

SNUFFLES.  A cold in the head, attended with a running at
  the nose.

Snug.  All’s snug; all’s quiet.

To soak.  To drink.  An old soaker; a drunkard, one that
  moistens his clay to make it stick together.

Socket money.  A whore’s fee, or hire:  also money paid
  for a treat, by a married man caught in an intrigue.

SOLDIER’S bottle.  A large one.

SOLDIER’S MAWND.  A pretended soldier, begging with a
  counterfeit wound, which he pretends to have received at
  some famous siege or battle.

SOLDIER’S pomatum.  A piece of tallow candle.

Soldier.  A red herring.

SOLFA.  A parish clerk.

Solo player.  A miserable performer on any instrument,
  who always plays alone, because no one will stay in the
  room to hear him.

Solomon.  The mass.  Cant.

Son of PRATTLEMENT.  A lawyer.

Song.  He changed his song; he altered his account or
  evidence.  It was bought for an old song, i.e. very cheap. 
  His morning and his evening song do not agree; he tells a
  different story.

SOOTERKIN.  A joke upon the Dutch women, supposing
  that, by their constant use of stoves, which they place
  under their petticoats, they breed a kind of small animal in
  their bodies, called a sooterkin, of the size of a mouse,
  which when mature slips out.

Sop.  A bribe.  A sop for Cerberus; a bribe for a porter,
  turnkey, or gaoler.

SOPH. (Cambridge) An undergraduate in his second year.

Sorrel.  A yellowish red.  Sorrel pate; one having red
  hair.

Sorrow shall be his sops.  He shall repent this.  Sorrow
  go by me; a common expletive used by presbyterians
  in Ireland.

Sorry.  Vile, mean, worthless.  A sorry fellow, or hussy;
  a worthless man or woman.

Sot Weed. Tobacco.

Soul case.  The body.  He made a hole in his soul
  case; he wounded him.

Soul doctor, or driver.  A parson.

SOUNDERS.  A herd of swine.

Souse.  Not a souse; not a penny.  French.

Sow.  A fat woman.  He has got the wrong sow by the ear,
  he mistakes his man.  Drunk as David’s sow; see David’s
  sow.

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