Brains (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Brains

If you had as much brains as guts, what a clever fellow you would be! a saying to a stupid fat fellow. To have some guts in his brains; to know something.

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

Braggadocia * Bran-faced

Nearby

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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