Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 302, 303 and 304
Scull Thatcher One of the slightly more jovial definitions in Grose’s book, this means “a peruke maker”, with a peruke
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 299, 300 and 301
Scald Miserables Grose’s dictionary refers to this as “a set of mock masons, who in 1744 made a ludicrous procession
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 296, 297 and 298
During lockdown, I started on my riveting (ahem) series of posts from the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. I was
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 293, 294 and 295
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 290, 291 and 292
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 287, 288 and 289
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 284, 285 and 286
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 281, 282 and 283
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 278, 279 and 280
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 275, 276 and 277
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the
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