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Clouting Lay (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Clouting Lay

Picking pockets of handkerchiefs.

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

Clouted Shoon * Clover

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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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.

Close
Close-fisted
Closh
Cloth Market
Cloud
Cloven
Cloven Foot
To Chuck
Clout
Clouted Shoon
Clouting Lay
Clover
Clowes
Cloy
Cloyes
Club
Club Law
Clump
Clunch
To Clutch the Fist
Clutches