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Butt (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Butt

A dependant, poor relation, or simpleton, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off; and who serves as a butt for all the shafts of wit and ridicule.

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

Butcher’s Horse * Butter Box

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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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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.

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Butt
Butter Box
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Buttock Broker
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Buttock and File
Buttock and Twang
Buttock and Tongue
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