Dog’s Portion (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Dog’s Portion

A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog’s portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer or dangler after women. See Dangler.

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

Dog Latin * Dog’s Rig

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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