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Kit-cat Club (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Kit-cat Club

A society of gentlemen, eminent for wit and learning, who in the reign of queen Anne and George I. met at a house kept by one Christopher Cat. The portraits of most of the members of this society were painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, of one size; thence still called the kit-cat size.

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

Kit * Kitchen Physic

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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.

King’s Bad Bargain
King’s Head Inn
King John’s Men
King of the Gypsies
King’s Pictures
Kingdom Come
Kip
Kiss Mine A-se
Kissing Crust
Kit
Kit-cat Club
Kitchen Physic
Kittle Pitchering
Kittys
Knack Shop
Knappers Poll
Knave In Grain
Knight of the Blade
Knight of the Post
Knight of the Rainbow
Knight of the Road