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Chop Churches (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Chop Churches

Simoniacal dealers in livings, or other ecclesiastical preferments.

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

To Chop and Change * Chopping

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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.

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Chivey
Chiving Lay
Choak
Choak Pear
Choaking Pye
Chocolate
Choice Spirit
Chop
To Chop and Change
Chop Churches
Chopping
Chops
Chop-stick
Chouder
To Chouse
Christ-cross Row
Christening
Christian Poney
Christian
Christmas Compliments