Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Shortest-Way with Whores and Rogues 8: This Project may be best accomplish’d by buzzing some Remarks in their hearing.at buzz, v.1
Shortest-Way with Whores and Rogues 41: I shall next speak of the Old Bawd, and then I have done with the Pocky Crew.at crew, n.
Shortest-Way with Whores and Rogues 37: The Keeping Lady is at a yearly Expence for a Man that she would have Constant; but she is scarce so herself; for Keeping Ladies are doubly Impudent.at keeping cully, n.
Shortest-Way with Whores and Rogues 37: I hear there are several Divisions amongst you, as the Keeping Lady, the Plyer to Bawdy Houses, the Common Night-walker and the Bawd. [Ibid.] 39: As for you that are Plyers at Bawdy Houses, and follow the ungodly course of Life for a Living, (as you call it) such as you often Dye like Jane Shore (Miss to a King) in a Ditch or Hospital.at plier, n.
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