Yarmouth Pye (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Yarmouth Pye

A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to the king.

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

See also the definition in Nathan Bailey's 1736 dictionary of canting and thieving slang.

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