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Doggess (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Doggess

DOG’S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY’S MAMMA. Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.

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

Dogged * Doll

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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.

Dodsey
Dog Buffers
Dog in a doublet
Dog
Dog Latin
Dog’s Portion
Dog’s Rig
Dog’s Soup
Dog Vane
Dogged
Doggess
Doll
Dolly
Domine Do little
Domineer
Dommerer
Done
Done Up
Donkey
Doodle
Doodle Sack