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Peeper (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Peeper

A spying glass; also a looking-glass. Track up the dancers, and pike with the peeper; whip up stairs, and run off with the looking-glass. Cant.

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

To Peel * Peepers

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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.

Peak
Peal
Pear Making
Peccavi
Peck
Peckish
Peculiar
Ped
Pedlar’s French
To Peel
Peeper
Peepers
Peeping Tom
Peepy
To Peer
Peery
Peg
Peg Trantum’s
Pego
Pell-mell
Pelt