Cow (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Cow

To sleep like a cow, with a **** at one’s a-se; said of a married man; married men being supposed to sleep with their backs towards their wives, according to the following proclamation:

All you that in your beds do lie,

Turn to your wives, and occupy:

And when that you have done your best,

Turn a-se to a-se, and take your rest.

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

Court of Assistants * Cow Juice

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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.