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Bottle-headed (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Bottle-headed

Void of wit.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Botherams * Bottom

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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About

Francis Grose was independently wealthy, having inherited money from his father, a jeweller. Finding himself overspending, he published a number of books; his Provincial Glossary seems to have been the starting-point for the Vulgar Tongue reproduced here.

Booty
Bo-peep
Borachio
Borde
Bordello
Bore
Born under a Threepenny Halfpenny Planet, never to be worth a Groat
Botch
Bothered
Botherams
Bottle-headed
Bottom
Bottomless Pit
Boughs
Boughs-1
To Bounce
Bouncer
Bouncing Cheat
Boung
Boung Nipper
Boose