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Cat harping Fashion (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Cat harping Fashion

Drinking cross-ways, and not, as usual, over the left thumb. SEA TERM.

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

Cat Call * Cat in Pan

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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.

Case Vrow
Cash
Caster
Castor
Casting up one’s Accounts
Cat
Cat-Heads
To Cat
Cat and Bagpipean Society
Cat Call
Cat harping Fashion
Cat in Pan
Cat’s Foot
Cat Lap
Cat Match
Cat of nine Tails
Cat’s Paw
Cat’s Sleep
Cat Sticks
Cat whipping
Catamaran