Rot Gut (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Rot Gut

Small beer; called beer-a-bumble—will burst one’s guts before it will make one tumble.

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

See also the definition in Nathan Bailey's 1736 dictionary of canting and thieving slang.

Rotan * Rovers

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