Dog Buffers (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Dog Buffers

Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs with their flesh.

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

Dodsey * Dog in a doublet

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