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Wild Squirt (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Wild Squirt

A looseness.

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

Wild Rogues * Wild-goose Chase

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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.

Whow Ball
Wibble
Wibling’s Witch
Wicket
Widow’s Weeds
Wife
Wife In Water Colours
Wigannowns
Wigsby
Wild Rogues
Wild Squirt
Wild-goose Chase
Willing Tit
Willow
Win
To Win
Wind
Winder
Wind-mill
Windfall
Windmills In the Head