Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Profanesse and Immorality of the Stage choose

Quotation Text

[UK] J. Collier Profanesse and Immorality of the Stage (1730) 143: This young Lady, swears, talks smut, and is upon the Matter just as rag-manner’d as Mary the Buxome.
at rag-mannered (adj.) under rag, n.1
[UK] J. Collier Profanesse and Immorality of the Stage (1730) 207: When he has larded his Scenes with Smut, and play’d his jests on Religion [...] what can a dry line or two of good Counsel signify?
at smut, n.
[UK] J. Collier Profanesse and Immorality of the Stage (1730) 4: Smuttinesse is a Fault in Behaviour as well.
at smutty, adj.
no more results