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Tenant At Will (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Tenant At Will

One whose wife usually fetches him from the alehouse.

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

Ten In the Hundred * Tenant For Life

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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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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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Ten Toes
Ten In the Hundred
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