Bread Basket (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Bread Basket

The stomach; a term used by boxers. I took him a punch in his bread basket; i.e. I gave him a blow in the stomach.

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

Bread * Breast Fleet

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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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