A tedious, troublesome man or woman, one who bores the ears of his hearers with an uninteresting tale; a term much in fashion about the years 1780 and 1781.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Bordello * Born under a Threepenny Halfpenny Planet, never to be worth a GroatNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes