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Wrapt Up In Warm Flannel (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Wrapt Up In Warm Flannel

Drunk with spirituous liquors. He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother’s smock; saying of any one remarkable for his success with the ladies. To be wrapt up in any one: to have a good opinion of him, or to be under his influence.

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

Wrap Rascal * Wrinkle

Nearby

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.

Woolbird
Wool Gathering
Woolley Crown
Word Grubbers
Word Pecker
Word of Mouth
World
Worm
Wranglers
Wrap Rascal
Wrapt Up In Warm Flannel
Wrinkle
Wry Mouth and a Pissen Pair of Breeches
Wry Neck Day
Wyn