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.

Gooseberry-eyed. One with dull grey eyes, like boiled
  gooseberries.

Gooseberry wig.  A large frizzled wig:  perhaps from a
  supposed likeness to a gooseberry bush.

GOOSECAP.  A silly fellow or woman.

Gorger.  A gentleman.  A well dressed man.  Mung
  kiddey.  Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman.

Gospel shop.  A church.

Goree.  Money, chiefly gold:  perhaps from the traffic
  carried on at that place, which is chiefly for gold dust. 
  Cant.

GORMAGON.  A monster with six eyes, three mouths, four
  arms, eight legs, live on one side and three on the other,
  three arses, two tarses, and a *** upon its back; a man on
  horseback, with a woman behind him.

Gotch-gutted. Pot bellied:  a gotch in Norfolk signifying
  a pitcher, or large round jug.

To Gouge.  To squeeze out a man’s eye with the thumb: 
  a cruel practice used by the Bostonians in America.

To grabble.  To seize.  To grabble the bit; to seize any
  one’s money.  Cant.

Grafted. Cuckolded, i.e. having horns grafted on his
  head.

To Grab.  To seize a man.  The pigs grabbed the kiddey
  for a crack:  the officers, seized the youth for a burglary.

GRANNAM.  Corn.

GRANNUM’S gold.  Hoarded money:  supposed to have
  belonged to the grandmother of the possessor.

Granny.  An abbreviation of grandmother; also the name
  of an idiot, famous for licking, her eye, who died Nov. 14,
  1719.  Go teach your granny to suck eggs; said to such
  as would instruct any one in a matter he knows better than
  themselves.

Grapple the rails.  A cant name used in Ireland for
  whiskey.

Grappling irons.  Handcuffs.

Grave digger.  Like a grave digger; up to the a-se in
  business, and don’t know which way to turn.

Gravy-eyed. Blear-eyed, one whose eyes have a running
  humour.

To grease.  To bribe.  To grease a man in the fist; to
  bribe him.  To grease a fat sow in the a-se; to give to a
  rich man.  Greasy chin; a treat given to parish officers in
  part of commutation for a bastard:  called also, Eating a
  child.

Great intimate.  As great as shirt and shitten a-se.

Great Joseph.  A surtout.  Cant.

Greedy guts.  A covetous or voracious person.

Greek.  St. Giles’s Greek; the slang lingo, cant, or gibberish.

Green.  Doctor Green; i.e. grass:  a physician, or rather
  medicine, found very successful in curing most disorders
  to which horses are liable.  My horse is not well, I shall
  send him to Doctor Green.

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