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New World Words (4th edn) n.p.: Parnel [...] an Appellation, particularly applied to any kind of wanton Woman.at parnel, n.
New World Words (4th edn) n.p.: Parnel [...] an Appellation, particularly applied to any kind of wanton Woman. New World of Words (5th edn) n.p.: Cacafuego, a Spanish word signifying Shitefire; and it is used for a bragging, vapouring fellow .at cacafuego, n.
New World Words (5th edn) n.p.: Cow. The Emblem of [...] a Lazy, Dronish, beastly Woman, who is likened to a Cow.at cow, n.1
New World of Words (6th edn) n.p.: Spud, [...] a Short-arse, or little despicable Fellow.at short-arse, n.
New World of Words (6th edn) n.p.: Curtail, a Drab, or nasty Slut.at curtal, n.
New World of Words (6th edn) n.p. : Oranoco (i.e. bright and large), a Name given to the common sort of Tobacco in the Plantations of Virginia.at orinoko, n.1
New World of Words (6th edn) n.p.: To Perk up, or Perk up again, [...] to recover after Sickness.at perk up, v.
New World of Words (6th edn) n.p.: Punter, a Term us’d at the Game of Cards call’d Basset.at punter, n.
Eng. Words 65: Hot air becomes baked wind.at baked wind, n.
(con. WWI) Eng. Words 56: Hard oil for ‘butter’ [HDAS].at hard oil (n.) under hard, adj.
Eng. Words 62: The young man who does not take his girl about is a chair-warmer, a lounge lizard.at lounge lizard (n.) under lounge, n.
Eng. Words 61: Youthful impatience with anything or anybody that interferes with a good time is expressed by such names as kill-joy, frost, wet-blanket... To these may be added, from the language of girls, [...] cuckoo, old priss, old Jane. [Ibid.] 62: If she [i.e. a girl] is unpopular, she is [...] a priss, a tomato, a chunk of lead, a drag.at priss, n.
World Eng. 286: dik South African A stupid person, [...] from the Afrikaans dik, meaning dense.at dik, n.2
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