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Teize (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Teize

To-nap the teize; to receive a whipping. Cant.

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

Teddy My Godson * Temple Pickling

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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.

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Tawed
Tayle
Tayle Drawers
Taylor
Taylors Goose
Tea Voider
Tea Gueland
Tears of the Tankard
Teddy My Godson
Teize
Temple Pickling
Ten Toes
Ten In the Hundred
Tenant At Will
Tenant For Life
Tender Parnell
Termagant
Terra Firma
Tester
Tetbury Portion