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[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius V 33: He is so Cunning and Old Fox [...] the very Ninth part of a Man that put the jest upon the Shoe-maker.
at ninth part of a man, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius IV 26: A Hackney Boarding-School; where Mechanicks Daughters are Taught to forget their Parentage, and Young Giddy-Brain’d Citizens are so often Cheated with White-Chappel Fortunes.
at boarding school, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius I 7: Behold the Maritime Deportment of Captain Crampos [...] what a Bottle Nose.
at bottle-nose, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius III 19: A Set of Hoit-Boys [...] lead you on [...] as the Bag-pipes do the Bears, when they March in State to Hockley-in-the-hole, in order to engage their Bawwaw Adversaries.
at bow-wow, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius IV 36: She is an invidious Tattle-box, that Rattles People out of their Senses.
at prattle-box, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius III 23: A great Number of Flogging Instruments, for the Secret Flogellation [sic] of Superanuated Sodomites ty’d with Ribbons of all sorts of Colours [...] so that every Beast, from the Buff-Hided Leacher, to the Lamb-Skinn’d Cully understood, by the Colour, how to call for a Scourge that was most agreeable.
at buff, adj.1
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius IV 39: Buggerantus Buggerantissimus: Or, a Brief History of Modern Sodomy. To which is added, The Fundamental Amours of the late Reverend Doctor Oats. Written by a profound Admirer of the Devil’s Arse in the Peak; and Sold by Ezekiel Manlove at the Sign of the Rump, on the Back-side of the Royal-Exchange.
at buggeranto, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius I 23: The Cat that loves Butter herself, will never abandon her Kitten for taking a lick at the Cream-Pot.
at butter, n.1
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius V 26: She was fearful the dampness of the Floor would give her Modicum the Chin-cough.
at chincough, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius IV 38: As Tavern Bar-Bell’s always Ratling / So Gossip’s Clapper must be Tatling.
at clapper, n.1
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius I 3: High Eating at Noon, a Whore and a Bottle at Night [...] till empty Pockets and a flaming Codpiece force him to Tick with a Son of Æsculapius [...] upon a Heathenish Catalogue of Pills, Powders, and Bolusses.
at cod-piece (n.) under cod, n.3
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius V 27: The Coachman [...] can tell you which is furnish’d with the best Conveniency, the Dressing-Room or the Kitchen.
at convenient, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius III 31: Nothing would qualifie the vehemencie of his Passion but a Lascivious Dose of her Sinful Affections adminster’d at the lower-end.
at dose, n.1
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius II 15: Learn how to tread out your Toes, riggle your Bum, thrust out your Dumplins.
at dumpling, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius I 14: Pray observe that short Dutch Buttock’d Lady there.
at Dutch-buttocked (adj.) under Dutch, adj.1
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius III 6: Here comes a Swanking Widow for you, who [...] has as much Flesh upon her Back as a Fat Lincolnshire Bullock. Her Face, by Computation, is about the breadth of the Pewter-Platter.
at platter-faced, adj.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius I 6: [She] Quenches one Flame by being kind, But often leaves a worse behind.
at flame, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius V 25: She is running full Tilt to Beveridge’s Buttock-Ball to hop away Six-penny worth of Country Dances, and afterwards to join Jiblets with my Lord Swivelton’s Vallet.
at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius I 22: The Mistress of a Flogging-School, where a parcel of Old Fanatical Goats go to be Whip’d into their Leathery.
at goat, n.1
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius I 13: A Talkative Dogmatical piece of Snarling Philosopher, that will empty the fullest Coffee-House [...] in half the time that an Expert Gold-finder can a House of Office.
at gold-finder (n.) under gold, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius III 35: You Ladies of the Grinding-Faculty, tho’ you Flourish for a time [...] may be blown down from the Tott’ring Pinnacle, upon which you are now Elevated.
at grind, v.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius II 6: We shall leave the Lump of the Law to look about him for fear of a Serjeant.
at lump, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius IV 37: A Makebate, like a Witch, is always disquieting herself in doing other People Mischief.
at make-bate (n.) under make, v.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius II 20: That Airy Lass [was] brought from the Innocent Squeezing of Cows Dugs, to the Wicked Milking of Town Bulls.
at milk, v.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius IV 33: Mrs. Busiebody of a Prattlebox is such an unsufferable Plague to the Neighbourhood she Lives in.
at Miss, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius IV 24: [She] continually wears Drawers, that her Modicum may be kept warm with a Flannel Badge of her Old Authority.
at modicum, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius V 10: He behaves himself more like a Catamite, an Eunuch, or one of those Ridiculous Imitators of the Female Sex, call’d Mollies, than like a Son of Adam.
at molly, n.1
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius V 10: One Tom-doodle of a Son who is forc’d to lead her about Town, as a Blind-Mans Dog does his Mumping-Master.
at mumping, n.
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius II 22: The Profitable Practice of Old Nicking and Frothing.
at nick-pot (n.) under nick, n.2
[UK] N. Ward London Terraefilius V 11: She cannot take a Nod in her Wicker-Chair, but she Dreams that a Tile has tumbled off a House and Knock’d him on the Head.
at nod, n.1
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