Grog. Rum and water. Grog was first
introduced into the
navy about the year 1740, by Admiral Vernon,
to prevent
the sailors intoxicating themselves with
their allowance of
rum, or spirits. Groggy, or groggified;
drunk.
Grog-Blossom. A carbuncle, or pimple
in the face, caused
by drinking.
GROGGED. A grogged horse; a foundered horse.
GROGHAM. A horse. Cant.
GROPERS. Blind men; also midwives.
Ground Sweat. A grave.
Ground squirrel. A hog, or pig. Sea term.
Grub. Victuals. To grub; to dine.
Grub street. A street near Moorfields,
formerly the supposed
habitation of many persons who wrote for
the booksellers:
hence a Grub-street writer means a hackney
author,
who manufactures booss for the booksellers.
Grub street news. Lying intelligence.
To GRUBSHITE. To make foul or dirty.
Grumble. To grumble in the gizzard; to murmur
or repine.
He grumbled like a bear with a sore head.
GRUMBLETONIAN. A discontented person; one who
is always
railing at the times or ministry.
Grunter. A hog; to grunt; to groan, or complain of sickness.
Grunter’s gig. A smoaked hog’s face.
Grunting peck. Pork, bacon, or any kind of hog’s flesh.
GRUTS. Tea.
Gudgeon. One easily imposed on. To
gudgeon; to swallow
the bait, or fall into a trap: from
the fish of that name,
which is easily taken.
Gull. A simple credulous fellow, easily cheated.
Gulled. Deceived, cheated, imposed on.
GULLGROPERS. Usurers who lend money to the gamesters.
Gum. Abusive language. Come, let us
have no more of
your gum.
Gummy. Clumsy: particularly applied
to the ancles of
men or women, and the legs of horses.
Gumption, or rum gumption. Docility,
comprehension,
capacity.
Gun. He is in the gun; he is drunk:
perhaps from an allusion
to a vessel called a gun, used for ale
in the universities.
GUNDIGUTS. A fat, pursy fellow.
Gunner’s daughter. To kiss the
gunner’s daughter; to
be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors;
a mode of
punishing boys on board a ship of war.
Gunpowder. An old Woman. Cant.
Guts. My great guts are ready to eat my
little ones; my
guts begin to think my throat’s
cut; my guts curse my
teeth: all expressions signifying
the party is extremely
hungry.
Guts and garbage. A very fat man
or woman. More
guts than brains; a silly fellow.
He has plenty of guts, but
no bowels: said of a hard, merciless,
unfeeling person.


