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.

DEUSEA Ville.  The country.  Cant.

DEUSEA Ville Stampers.  Country carriers.  Cant.

Dew beaters.  Feet.  Cant.

Dews Wins, or DEUX Wins.  Two-pence.  Cant.

DEWITTED. Torn to pieces by a mob, as that great statesman
  John de Wit was in Holland, anno 1672.

Dial plate.  The face.  To alter his dial plate; to
  disfigure his face.

Dice.  The names of false dice: 
  A bale of bard cinque deuces
  A bale of flat cinque deuces
  A bale of flat sice aces
  A bale of bard cater traes
  A bale of flat cater traes
  A bale of fulhams
  A bale of light graniers
  A bale of langrets contrary to the ventage
  A bale of gordes, with as many highmen as lowmen,
   for passage
  A bale of demies
  A bale of long dice for even and odd
  A bale of bristles
  A bale of direct contraries.

Dick.  That happened in the reign of queen Dick, i. e.
  never:  said of any absurd old story.  I am as queer as
  Dick’s hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don’t know what
  ails me.

Dicky.  A woman’s under-petticoat.  It’s all Dicky with
  him; i.e. it’s all over with him.

DICKED in the nob.  Silly.  Crazed.

Dickey.  A sham shirt.

Dickey.  An ass.  Roll your dickey; drive your ass.  Also
  a seat for servants to sit behind a carriage, when their
  master drives.

To Diddle.  To cheat.  To defraud.  The cull diddled
  me out of my dearee; the fellow robbed me of my sweetheart. 
  See Jeremy Diddler In Raising The Wind.

DIDDEYS.  A woman’s breasts or bubbies.

Diddle.  Gin.

Diggers.  Spurs.  Cant.

DILBERRIES.  Small pieces of excrement adhering to the
  hairs near the fundament.

DILBERRY maker.  The fundament.

Dildo. [From the Italian DILETTO, q. d. a woman’s delight;
  or from our word Dally, q. d. a thing to play withal.]
  Penis-succedaneus, called in Lombardy Passo Tempo.  Bailey.

Diligent.  Double diligent, like the Devil’s apothecary;
  said of one affectedly diligent.

Dilly. (An abbreviation of the word diligence.) A public
  voiture or stage, commonly a post chaise, carrying
  three persons; the name is taken from the public stage
  vehicles in France and Flanders.  The dillies first began
  to run in England about the year 1779.

Dimber.  Pretty.  A dimber cove; a pretty fellow.  Dimber
  mort; a pretty wench.  Cant.

Dimber damber.  A top man, or prince, among the canting
  crew:  also the chief rogue of the gang, or the completest
  cheat.  Cant.

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