captain grose quotes

PLATTER-FACED. Broad-faced.

PRINCOD. A pincushion. SCOTCH--Also a round plump
man or woman.

PILLALOO. The Irish cry or howl at funerals.

TROLLY LOLLY. Coarse lace once much in fashion.

PURL. Ale in which wormwood has been infused, or ale
and bitters drunk warm.

TRUMPERY. An old whore, or goods of no value; rubbish.

VIXEN. A termagant; also a she fox, who, when she has
cubs, is remarkably fierce.

VARMENT. (Whip and Cambridge.) Natty, dashing. He is
quite varment, he is quite the go. He sports a varment
hat, coat, &c.; he is dressed like a gentleman Jehu.

TAPE. Red tape; brandy. Blue or white tape; gin.

TO TOWER. To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.

ABBESS, or LADY ABBESS, A bawd, the mistress of a
brothel.

TRAP STICKS. Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with
which boys play at trap-ball.

PICKLE. An arch waggish fellow. In pickle, or in the
pickling tub; in a salivation. There are rods in brine, or
pickle, for him; a punishment awaits him, or is prepared
for him. Pickle herring; the zany or merry andrew
of a mountebank. See JACK PUDDING.

POUND. A prison. See LOB'S POUND. Pounded; imprisoned.
Shut up in the parson's pound; married. POWDER

PLAY. To play booty; to play with an intention to lose. To
play the whole game; to cheat. To play least in sight;
to hide, or keep out of the way. To play the devil; to be
guilty of some great irregularity or mismanagement.

BUCKET. To kick the bucket; to die.

PETER GUNNER, will kill all the birds that died last summer.
A piece of wit commonly thrown out at a person
walking through a street or village near London, with a
gun in his hand.

VINCENT'S LAW. The art of cheating at cards, composed of
the following associates: bankers, those who play booty;
the gripe, he that betteth; and the person cheated, who
is styled the vincent; the gains acquired, termage.

TAFFY, i.e. Davy. A general name for a Welchman, St.
David being the tutelar saint of Wales. Taffy's day; the
first of March, St. David's day.

BAWBELS, or BAWBLES. Trinkets; a man's testicles.