PAW PAW TRICKS. Naughty tricks: an expression used by nurses, &c. to children.
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Francis Grose
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English antiquary, draughtsman and lexicographer.
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SNOW. Linen hung out to dry or bleach. Spice the snow; to steal the linen.
XANTIPPE. The name of Socrates's wife: now used to signify a shrew or scolding wife.
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money to spend in liquor. He who once a good name gets, May piss a bed, and say he sweats.
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PISS. He will piss when he can't whistle; he will be hanged. He shall not piss my money against the wall; he shall not have my (1/2)
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TALLYWAGS, or TARRYWAGS. A man's testicles.
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title of lansprisado, or lancepesato, a broken lance.
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pay of a corporal. Formerly a lancier, or horseman, who being dismounted by the death of his horse, served in the foot, by the (2/3)
LANSPRISADO. One who has only two-pence in his pocket. Also a lance, or deputy corporal; that is, one doing the duty without the (1/3)
BILL AT SIGHT. To pay a bill at sight; to be ready at all times for the venereal act.
SCANDAL PROOF. One who has eaten shame and drank after it, or would blush at being ashamed.
finger the Lord knows where. See Rabelais, and Prior's versification of the story.
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gave him a ring, which, so long as he had it on his finger, would prevent his being made a cuckold: waking he found he had got his (2/3)
CARVEL'S RING. The private parts of a woman. Ham Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed that the Devil (1/3)
apology for drinking a dram after either.
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home; a mark of being master of his own house: an allusion to a well known poem and story. Brandy is Latin for pig and goose; an (5/6)
without seeing. Pig's eyes; small eyes. Pigsnyes; the same: a vulgar term of endearment to a woman. He can have boiled pig at (4/6)
in pulling off all the bed clothes, and leaving them to pig or lie in the cold. To buy a pig in a poke; to purchase any thing (3/6)
a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it consists (2/6)
PIG. Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. To pig together; to lie or sleep together, two or more in a bed. Cold pig; (1/6)
BREAKING SHINS. Borrowing money; perhaps from the figurative operation being, like the real one, extremely disagreeable to the patient.
HIGH JINKS. A gambler at dice, who, having a strong head, drinks to intoxicate his adversary, or pigeon.
CROSS. To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the conclusion.
head. Knave noddy; the old-fashioned name for the knave of trumps.
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it is called, of a mile and half, and frequently a tumble down into the bargain: it is called a noddy from the nutation of its (3/4)
of a hackney coach: the fare is just half that of a coach, for the same distance; so that for sixpence one may have a set down, as (2/4)
NODDY. A simpleton or fool. Also a kind of low cart, with a seat before it for the driver, used in and about Dublin, in the manner (1/4)
GLOBE. Pewter. CANT.
WHITE SWELLING. A woman big with child is said to have a white swelling.
a cock, in imitation of its note when crowing.
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DOODLE. A silly fellow, or noodle: see NOODLE. Also a child's penis. Doodle doo, or Cock a doodle doo; a childish appellation for (1/2)
CRAG. The neck.
TO WIREDRAW. To lengthen out or extend any book, letter, or discourse.
BREAD BASKET. The stomach; a term used by boxers. I took him a punch in his bread basket; i.e. I gave him a blow in the stomach.
KNACK SHOP. A toy-shop, a nick-nack-atory.
a quail pipe, from the number of plaits; they were much worn in the reign of Charles II.
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QUAIL-PIPE. A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots; boots resembling (1/2)
MUNSTER HEIFER. An Irish woman. A woman with thick legs is said to be like a Munster heifer; i.e. beef to the heels.
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THICK. Intimate. They are as thick as two inkle-weavers.
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