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CURSITORS,

reduced Lawyers, assuming to themselves the Knowledge of the Quirks and Quiddities of the Law, and are perpetually fomenting litigious Brawls, and insignificant Contentions, among the Scum of the Vulgar.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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CULLY
CUNNING-Shaver
CUP-SHOT
CUP of the Creature
CURLE
CURSITORS
CURTAILS
CURTAIL'D
CURTAIN-Lecture
CURTEZAN
CUT

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Cursitors in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).