Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected with the Addition of Numerous Slang Phrases Collected from Tried Authorities

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Pàgina lix - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pàgina ix - I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value.
Pàgina 2 - The pocket had in it certain counters, and was hung about with hawk's bells, and over the top did hang a little scaring bell ; the purse had silver in it, and he that could take out a counter without any noise was allowed to be a public...
Pàgina xxiii - Bear, to take a certain sum of stock at a future day, at a stated price: if at that day stock fetches more than the price agreed on, he receives the difference; if it falls or is cheaper, he either pays it, or becomes a lame duck, and waddles out of the Alley.
Pàgina 1 - FORK. A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket. — ' The newest and most dexterous way, which is, ' to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick, ' into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can
Pàgina 7 - In winter time the beer was placed on the hob to warm: and the cold beer was set on a small table, said to have been called the nob ; so that the question, Will yon have hob or nob? seems only to have meant, Will you have warm or cold beer? ie beer from the hob, or beer from the nob.
Pàgina ix - To cut with a knife, or To cut a piece of wood, is perfectly free from vulgarity, because it is perfectly common: but to cut an acquaintance is not quite unexceptionable, because it is not perfectly common or intelligible, and has hardly yet escaped out of the limits of slang phraseology. I should hardly therefore use the word in this sense without putting it in italics as a license of expression, to be received cum grano salis.
Pàgina ix - ... it is not the size or glossiness of the materials, but their being fitted each to its place, that gives strength to the arch ; or as the pegs and nails are as necessary to the support of the building as the larger timbers, and more so than the mere showy, unsubstantial ornaments.
Pàgina ix - In the one he received, and from the other paid ; and this too with a want of circumspection which may be readily supposed from- such a mode of book-keeping. His losses on this occasion roused his latent talents: with a good classical education he united a fine taste for drawing, which he now began again to cultivate; and encouraged by his -friends, he undertook the work from which he derived both profit and reputation : his Views of Antiquities in England and Wales, which he first began to publish...
Pàgina xxxiii - A woman, who was giving evidence in a cause wherein it was necessary to express those parts, made use of the term cauliflower; for which the judge on the bench, a peevish old fellow, reproved her, saying she might as well call it artichoke. Not so, my lord, replied she; for an artichoke has a bottom,but a * * * * and a cauliflower have none . CAUTIONS.

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