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Organ (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Organ

A pipe. Will you cock your organ? will you smoke your pipe?

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

Optime * Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy

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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.

Old Toast
Old Doss
Oliver’s Scull
Olli Compolli
Omnium Gatherum
One In Ten
One of Us
Onion
Open Arse
Optime
Organ
Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
Oschives
Ostler
Ottomy
Ottomised
Oven
Overseer
Out At Heels
Outrun the Constable
Outs