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.

Dog Latin.  Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used
  by the lawyers in their pleadings.

Dog’s portion.  A lick and a smell.  He comes in for only
  a dog’s portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer
  or dangler after women.  See dangler.

Dog’s rig.  To copulate till you are tired, and then turn
  tail to it.

Dog’s soup.  Rain water.

Dog vane.  A cockade.  Sea term.

Dogged. Surly.

DOGGESS, dog’s wife or lady, puppy’s mamma
  Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.

Doll.  Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman,
  like one of the children’s dolls at Bartholomew fair.  To
  mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house
  of correction.

Dolly.  A Yorkshire dolly; a contrivance for washing, by
  means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tub, which being turned
  about, agitates and cleanses the linen put into it, with
  soap and water.

Domine do little.  An impotent old fellow.

Domineer.  To reprove or command in an insolent or
  haughty manner.  Don’t think as how you shall domineer
  here.

DOMMERER.  A beggar pretending that his tongue has been
  cutout by the Algerines, or cruel and blood-thirsty Turks,
  or else that he yas born deaf and dumb.  Cant.

Done, or done over.  Robbed:  also, convicted or hanged. 
  Cant.—­See do.

Done up.  Ruined by gaming and extravagances.  Modern
  Term.

Donkey, donkey Dick.  A he, or jack ass:  called donkey,
  perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of
  that animal, intitled also the king of Spain’s trumpeter.

Doodle.  A silly fellow, or noodle:  see noodle.  Also a
  child’s penis.  Doodle doo, or Cock a doodle doo; a
  childish appellation for a cock, in imitation of its note
  when crowing.

Doodle sack.  A bagpipe.  Dutch.—­Also the private parts
  of a woman.

Dopey.  A beggar’s trull.

Dot and go one.  To waddle:  generally applied to persons
  who have one leg shorter than the other, and who, as the
  sea phrase is, go upon an uneven keel.  Also a jeering
  appellation for an inferior writing-master, or teacher of
  arithmetic.

Double.  To tip any one the double; to run away in his or
  her debt.

Double jugg.  A man’s backside.  Cotton’s Virgil.

Dove-tail.  A species of regular answer, which fits into
  the subject, like the contrivance whence it takes its name: 
  Ex.  Who owns this?  The dovetail is, Not you by your
  asking.

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