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Small Clothes (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Small Clothes

Breeches: a gird at the affected delicacy of the present age; a suit being called coat, waistcoat, and articles, or small clothes.

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

Smacking Cove * Smart

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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.

Slug-a-bed
Sluice Your Gob
Slur
Slush
Slush Bucket
Sly Boots
Smabbled
To Smack
Smacksmooth
Smacking Cove
Small Clothes
Smart
Smart Money
Smasher
Smash
To Smash
Smear
Smear Gelt
Smeller
Smelling Cheat
Smelts