Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day Sixty-Six

The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the Coronavirus crisis is giving too much time to read books, I thought I’d pick a daily word from it until I got bored…..

With the move to a new server, I’ve got a little behind with these daily words, so there might be a little splurge of them to catch up.

Cautions

This is defined in the form of a short poem:

“The Four Cautions

1 – Beware of a woman before

2 – Beware of a horse behind

3 – Beware of a cart side-ways

4 – Beware of a priest every way”

200 years on, some people might perhaps say that this advice isn’t entirely out of place.