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To Pay (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

To Pay

To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, and no pitch hot or ready. SEA TERM.—Also to beat: as, I will pay you as Paul paid the Ephesians, over the face and eyes, and all your d—d jaws. To pay away; to fight manfully, also to eat voraciously. To pay through the nose: to pay an extravagant price.

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

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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.

Pat
Pate
Patrico
Pattering
To Patter
Paviour’s Workshop
To Paum
Paunch
Paw
Paw Paw Tricks
To Pay
To Peach
Peak
Peal
Pear Making
Peccavi
Peck
Peckish
Peculiar
Ped
Pedlar’s French