Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a pensioner of Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital, founded in 1692 by Queen Mary.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.