Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Cambridge adj.

Proper name in slang uses

In compounds

Cambridge fortune (n.) [punning on two staples of the Cambridgeshire countryside, the term is defined by Grose as ‘a wind mill and a water mill’, i.e. she can talk and urinate but that is all]

a woman who has no fortune of her own and must rely for attraction on her personal charms alone.

[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Cambridge fortune a Woman without any Substance.
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Cambridge fortune. a wind mill and a water mill; a woman without any but personal endowments.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
Cambridgeshire camel (n.) [the stilt-walkers once found in the fens]

a native or established resident of Cambridgeshire.

[UK]Fuller Worthies (1840) I 226: Cambridgeshire Camels.
[UK]Grose Provincial Gloss. (1811).
[UK]Luton Times 12 July 7/4: Cambridgeshire — ‘Cambridge Camels’.
[UK]Cornishman 25 May 4/2: Among country nicknames is [...] Cambridgeshire camel, Essex calf, Norfolk dumpling.
Cambridgeshire nightingale (n.) [the large numbers of croaking frogs found in the marshy fens]

a frog.

[Scot]Chambers’s Journal No. 581 107, col. 2: The male of the eatable frog is distinguished... by... a pouch... These pouches increase the volume of the croak, and render it so powerful that the possessors have, from the county in which they are particularly plentiful, received the nickname of Cambridgeshire nightingales [F&H].
[UK]Shields Dly Gaz. 27 Mar. 4/1: The edible frog [...] formerly pretty common in the fen districts, where his harmonious croaking [...] procured him the soubriquet of the ‘Cambridgeshire Nightingale’.
[UK]Cheltenham Chron. 23 May 8/6: The species [...] was found to be fairly abundant in Foulmire fen, in Cambridgeshire, where its curious croaking had gained for it the name of ‘Cambridgeshire Nightingale’.
Liverpool Post 18 Apr. 4/2: His new name is the Cambridgeshire nightingale.