Queer Birds (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Queer Birds

Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade.

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

Queer Bail * Queer Bit-makers

Nearby

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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Quartered
To Quash
Quean
Queen Dick
Queen Street
Queer
Queer As Dick’s Hatband
To Queer
Queer Wedges
Queer Bail
Queer Birds
Queer Bit-makers
Queer Bitch
Queer Bluffer
Queer Bung
Queer Checkers
Queer Cole Fencer
Queer Cole Maker
Queer Cove
Queer Cuffin
Queer Degen