Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie choose

Quotation Text

[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 8: Loiterers I kept so meanie, Both Philip, Hob, and Cheanie.
at philip and cheyney, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 190: Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.
at blab, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 43: Out trudgeth Hew make shift, with hooke & with line: Whiles Gillet, his blouse is a milking thy cow, Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow.
at blowse, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 107: So Cisse that serues must marke this note, What fault deserves a brushed cote.
at brush someone’s coat (v.) under brush, v.3
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 134: As oft as ye bargaine, for better or wurse, to buie it the cheaper, haue chinkes in thy purse.
at chink, n.1
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 169: Let fizgig be taught to shut doore after taile, Too easie the wicket [mouth], Will still appease clicket. [...] With hir that wil clicket, make daunger to cope, least quickly hir wicket seeme easie to ope.
at clicket, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 169: Let fizgig be taught to shut doore after taile, Too easie the wicket, Will still appease clicket. [...] With hir that wil clicket, make daunger to cope, least quickly hir wicket seeme easie to ope.
at clicket, v.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 23: Put dicing among them, and docking the dell: and by and by after, of beggerie smell.
at dock, v.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 168: Breakfast doings. To breakfast that come, Giue erie one some.
at doings, n.1
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 25: Beware [...] Purloiners and filchers, that loueth to lurke.
at filcher, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 169: Make maide to be clenly, or make her crie creake, and teach hir to stirre, when hir mistresse doths speake. Let hollie wand threate, Let Fisgig be beate.
at fizgig, n.1
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 159: How husbandrie easeth, to huswiferie pleaseth, And manie purse greaseth with siluer and gold.
at grease, v.1
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 80: For feare of Hew prowler, get home with the rest, / When frost is at hardest, then carriage best.
at hugh prowler, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 22: Use (legem pone) to paie at thy daie, but vse not (Oremus) for often delaie.
at legem pone, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 17: To raise betimes the lubberlie, both snorting Hob and Margerie.
at lubberly, adj.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 20: Once placed for profit [...] beware of such michers as thease.
at mitcher, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 208: There was I faine my selfe to traine [...] For hope of pelfe, like wordly else, to moile and toile.
at pelf, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 107: A lesson for dairie maid Cisley, of ten topping gests.
at topping, adj.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 85: Sow pease (good trull).
at trull, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 214: Where cocking Dads make sawsie lads, / In youth so rage, to beg an age, / Or else to fetch a Tibourne stretch.
at Tyburn stretch (n.) under Tyburn, n.
[UK] T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 169: Let fizgig be taught to shut doore after taile, Too easie the wicket, Will still appease clicket [...] With hir that wil clicket, make daunger to cope, least quickly hir wicket seeme easie to ope.
at wicket, n.
no more results