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Divide (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Divide

To divide the house with one’s wife; to give her the outside, and to keep all the inside to one’s self, i.e. to turn her into the street.

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

Diver * Do

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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.

Disgruntled
Dished up
Dishclout
Dismal Ditty
Dispatches
Ditto
Dispatchers
Distracted Division
Dive
Diver
Divide
Do
To do over
Doash
Dobin Rig
To Dock
Doctor
Doctors
Dodsey
Dog Buffers
Dog in a doublet