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Squint-a-pipes (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Squint-a-pipes

A squinting man or woman; said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunday; or born in a hackney coach, and looking out of both windows; fit for a cook, one eye in the pot, and the other up the chimney; looking nine ways at once.

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

Squib * Squire of Alsatia

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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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.

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Squelch
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Squint-a-pipes
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To Stag
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