Pomp (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Pomp

To save one’s pomp at whist, is to score five before the adversaries are up, or win the game: originally derived from pimp, which is Welsh for five; and should be, I have saved my pimp.

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

To Pommel * Pompaginis

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