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.

Cool NANTS.  Brandy.

Cool tankard.  Wine and water, with lemon, sugar, and
  burrage.

COLQUARRON.  A man’s neck.  His colquarron is just about
  to be twisted; he is just going to be hanged.  Cant.

Colt.  One who lets horses to highwaymen; also a boy newly
  initiated into roguery; a grand or petty juryman on his
  first assize.  Cant.

COLTAGE.  A fine or beverage paid by colts on their first
  entering into their offices.

Colt bowl.  Laid short of the jack by a colt bowler, i.e.
  a person raw or unexperienced in the art of bowling.

Colt’s tooth.  An old fellow who marries or keeps a young
  girl, is said to have a colt’s tooth in his head.

Colt veal.  Coarse red veal, more like the flesh of a colt
  than that of a calf.

Comb.  To comb one’s head; to clapperclaw, or scold any
  one:  a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb
  his head.  She combed his head with a joint stool; she
  threw a stool at him.

Come.  To come; to lend.  Has he come it; has he lent it? 
  To come over any one; to cheat or over reach him. 
  Coming wench; a forward wench, also a breeding woman.

ComingSo is christmas.  Said of a person who has long
  been called, and at length answers, Coming!

Comfortable importance.  A wife.

Commission.  A shirt.  Cant.

Commode.  A woman’s head dress.

Commodity.  A woman’s commodity; the private parts of
  a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute.

Commons. The house of commons; the necessary house.

Company.  To see company; to enter into a course of prostitution.

Compliment.  See christmas.

COMUS’S court.  A social meeting formerly held at the
  Half Moon tavern Cheapside.

Confect.  Counterfeited.

Conger.  To conger; the agreement of a set or knot of
  booksellers of London, that whosoever of them shall buy
  a good copy, the rest shall take off such a particular number,
  in quires, at a stated price; also booksellers joining to
  buy either a considerable or dangerous copy.

Congo.  Will you lap your congo with me? will you drink
  tea with me?

CONNY wabble.  Eggs and brandy beat up together.  Irish.

Conscience keeper.  A superior, who by his influence
  makes his dependants act as he pleases.

Content.  The cull’s content; the man is past complaining: 
  a saying of a person murdered for resisting the robbers.  Cant.

Content.  A thick liquor, in imitation of chocolate, made
  of milk and gingerbread.

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