“francis grose”

Provincial or local words are of three kinds, the first, either Saxon or Danish, in general grown obsolete from disuse, and the introduction of more fashionable terms; and, consequently, only retained in countries remote from the capital, where modern refinements do not easily find their way and are... More

A dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence. Unabridged from the original 1811 edition.... More