Looking As If One Could Not Help It (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Looking As If One Could Not Help It

Looking like a simpleton, or as if one could not say boh! to a goose.

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

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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