1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar TongueGrose, Francis
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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Grose, Francis
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TO DOCK. To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell
all the darkmans; the fellow laid with the wench all night.
Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation
of his penis from a venereal complaint. He must
go into dock; a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken
of must undergo a salivation. Docking is also a punishment
inflicted by sailors on the prostitutes who have
infected them with the venereal disease; it consists in cutting
off all their clothes, petticoats, shift and all, close to
their stays, and then turning them into the street.
DOCTOR. Milk and water, with a little rum, and some nutmeg;
also the name of a composition used by distillers,
to make spirits appear stronger than they really are, or,
in their phrase, better proof.
DOCTORS. Loaded dice, that will run but two or three
chances. They put the doctors upon him; they cheated
him with loaded dice.
DODSEY. A woman: perhaps a corruption of Doxey. CANT.
DOG BUFFERS. Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not
advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs
with their flesh.
DOG IN A DOUBLET. A daring, resolute fellow. In
Germany and Flanders the boldest dogs used to hunt the boar,
having a kind of buff doublet buttoned on their bodies,
Rubens has represented several so equipped, so has Sneyders.
DOG. An old dog at it; expert or accustomed to any thing.
Dog in a manger; one who would prevent another from
enjoying what he himself does not want: an allusion to
the well-known fable. The dogs have not dined; a
common saying to any one whose shirt hangs out behind. To
dog, or dodge; to follow at a distance. To blush like a
blue dog, i.e. not at all. To walk the black dog on any
one; a punishment inflicted in the night on a fresh prisoner,
by his comrades, in case of his refusal to pay the usual
footing or garnish.
DOG LATIN. Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used
by the lawyers in their pleadings.
DOG'S PORTION. A lick and a smell. He comes in for only
a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer
or dangler after women. See DANGLER.
DOG'S RIG. To copulate till you are tired, and then turn
tail to it.
DOG'S SOUP. Rain water.
DOG VANE. A cockade. SEA TERM.
DOGGED. Surly.
DOGGESS, DOG'S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA.
Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
DOLL. Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman,
like one of the children's dolls at Bartholomew fair. To
mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house
of correction.
DOLLY. A Yorkshire dolly; a contrivance for washing, by
means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tub, which being turned
about, agitates and cleanses the linen put into it, with
soap and water.
DOMINE DO LITTLE. An impotent old fellow.
DOMINEER. To reprove or command in an insolent or
haughty manner. Don't think as how you shall domineer
here.
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