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.

Blind Cupid.  The backside.

BLINDMAN’S holiday.  Night, darkness.

Block houses.  Prisons, houses of correction, &c.

Blocked at both ends.  Finished.  The game is blocked
  at both ends; the game is ended.

Blood.  A riotous disorderly fellow.

Blood for blood.  A term used by tradesmen for bartering
  the different commodities in which they deal.  Thus a
  hatter furnishing a hosier with a hat, and taking payment
  in stockings, is said to deal blood for blood.

Blood money.  The reward given by the legislature on the
  conviction of highwaymen, burglars, &c.

Bloody back.  A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding
  to his scarlet coat.

Bloody.  A favourite word used by the thieves in swearing,
  as bloody eyes, bloody rascal.

Bloss or blowen.  The pretended wife of a bully, or
  shoplifter.  Cant.

To blot the Skrip and Jar it.  To stand engaged or
  bound for any one.  Cant.

Blow.  He has bit the blow, i.e. he has stolen the goods. 
  Cant.

BLOWEN.  A mistress or whore of a gentleman of the
  scamp.  The blowen kidded the swell into a snoozing
  ken, and shook him of his dummee and thimble; the
  girl inveigled the gentleman into a brothel and robbed him
  of his pocket book and watch.

Blower.  A pipe.  How the swell funks his blower and
  lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman makes
  with his pipe, and drinks brandy.

To blow the GROUNSILS.  To lie with a woman on the
  floor.  Cant.

To blow the gab.  To confess, or impeach a confederate. 
  Cant.

Blow-up.  A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.

A BLOWSE, or BLOWSABELLA.  A woman whose hair is
  dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern.

Blubber.  The mouth.—­I have stopped the cull’s blubber;
  I have stopped the fellow’s mouth, meant either by gagging
  or murdering him.

To blubber.  To cry.

To sport blubber.  Said of a large coarse woman, who
  exposes her bosom.

Blubber cheeks.  Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like
  the fat or blubber of a whale.

Blue, To look blue; to be confounded, terrified, or disappointed. 
  Blue as a razor; perhaps, blue as azure.

Blue boar.  A venereal bubo.

Blue devils.  Low spirits.

Blue flag.  He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced
  publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to
  the blue aprons worn by publicans.  See Admiral of
  the blue.

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