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Sunny Bank (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Sunny Bank

A good fire in winter.

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.

Sunday Man * Sunshine

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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.

Suck
To Suck
Sucking Chicken
Suds
Sugar Stick
Sugar Sops
Sulky
Sun
Sunburnt
Sunday Man
Sunny Bank
Sunshine
Supernacolum
Supouch
Surveyor of the Highways
Surveyor of the Pavement
Sus Per Coll
Suspence
Sutrer
Swabbers
Swad