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Pear Making (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Pear Making

Taking bounties from several regiments and immediately deserting. The cove was fined in the steel for pear making; the fellow was imprisoned in the house of correction for taking bounties from different regiments.

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

Peal * Peccavi

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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.

To Patter
Paviour’s Workshop
To Paum
Paunch
Paw
Paw Paw Tricks
To Pay
To Peach
Peak
Peal
Pear Making
Peccavi
Peck
Peckish
Peculiar
Ped
Pedlar’s French
To Peel
Peeper
Peepers
Peeping Tom