Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Survey of London choose

Quotation Text

[UK] Stow Survey of London (2005) 195: There was a clattering of pewter-pots, harp, pipe, and swatrfy, yea by cock, nay by cock, for greater oaths were spared.
at cock, n.1
[UK] Stow Survey of London (2005) 72: This conduit was first built [...] to be a prison for night-walkers and other suspicious persons.
at night walker, n.
[UK] (ref. to 1421) Stow Survey of London (2005) 67: This year [i.e. 1421] was such a scarcity of white money.
at white money (n.) under white, adj.
no more results