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How the Ploughman learned his Paternoster in Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words (1881) II 608/1: Ever he patred on theyr names faste; Than he had them in ordre at the laste .at patter, v.
How the Ploughman learned his Paternoster in Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words (1881) II 608/1: Ever he patred on theyr names faste; Than he had them in ordre at the laste . Dict. cited in Halliwell Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 519/2: An harlot, a brothel, an hoore, a strompet, a light housewyfe .at light housewife (n.) under light, adj.
Union in Halliwell Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 635/2: And have wynked at the pollyng and extorcion of hys unmeasurable officiers .at poll, v.
Tumult (Rawlinson ms) in Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provincial Wds (1847) n.p.: I tell you Hodge, in sooth it was not cleane, it was as black as ever was Malkin’s queme.at quim, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words I 159/1: beggars-velvet. The light particles of down shaken from a feather-bed, and left by a sluttish housemaid to collect under it.at beggar’s velvet (n.) under beggar, n.
(ref. to 1600) Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words I 163/1: bel-shangles: A cant term used by Kemp, in his Nine Daies Wonder, 1600, where he mentions himself as ‘head-master of Morrice-dauncers, high head-borough of heighs, and onely tricker of your trill-lilles, and best bel-shangles betweene Sion and mount Surrey.’.at bel-shangle, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words I 188/1: Blouse... a woman with hair or head-dress loose and disordered, or decorated with vulgar finery.at blowse, n.
Archaic Words (1881) 202: box-harry. To dine with Duke Humphrey; to care after having been extravagant.at box Harry (v.) under box, v.2
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words I 213/1: Bromidgham. A corruption of Birmingham. A Bromidgham groat, a spurious fourpennypiece. A person neither Whig nor Tory, but between both, was called a Bromidgham.at Brummagem groats (n.) under Brummagem, adj.
Dict. of Archaic and Provincial Words I.at cockish, adj.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words I 261/1: cockloche. A simple fellow (Fr.).at cockloche, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 889/2: To come from Tripoly, a phrase meaning to do feats of activity; to vault, or tumble.at come from Tripoli (v.) under come, v.1
in Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 927/1: wheting-corne. The bel-chos [i.e. ‘Pudendum feminae’].at whetting corn, n.
Archaic and Provincial Words II.at mount-faulcon, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words.at gape for gudgeons (v.) under gudgeon, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 536/1: Madge (3). The pudendum muliebre. South.at Madge Howlet, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 484/2: Jiggamaree, a manœuvre. Var. dial.at jigamaree, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 485/2: Johnny (1) A jakes.at johnny, n.1
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 519/2: A light-housewife, a married woman of bad character.at light housewife (n.) under light, adj.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 568/1: MUTTON. A prostitute. Mutton-monger, a man addicted to muttons.at mutton-monger, n.1
Archaic and Provincial Words II 564/1: Mow [...] (3) Futuo North.at mow, v.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 585/2: obstropolous. Obstreperous. A very common vulgarism.at obstropolous, adj.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 816/1: strap-oil. A severe beating. It is a common joke on April 1st to send a lad for a pennyworth of strap-oil, which is generally administered to his own person.at strap-oil, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 592/2: OUT [...] 3. n excursion of pleasure.at out, n.
Dict. Archaic & Provincial Words II.at overseen, adj.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II .at overtaken, adj.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 601/2: Pancridge parson, a term of contempt.at pancridge parson, n.
Archaic and Provincial Words II.at parish lantern (n.) under parish, n.
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 605/1: Park [...] Slang term for a prison. York.at park, n.1
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 623/2: Piky, a gipsey. Kent.at pikey, n.
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