Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.Henley, William Ernest
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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
Henley, William Ernest
English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Slang -- Dictionaries
To have, or do, or perform, the act of androgynation (Urquhart); a
ballocking; a bit; a lassie’s by-job (Burns); a bedward bit (Durfey); a
beanfeast in bed; a belly-warmer; a blindfold bit; a bottom-wetter (of
women); a bout; a brush with the cue; a dive in the dark; a drop-in; a
double fight; an ejectment in Love-lane; a four-legged frolic; a fuck;
a futter; a game in the cock-loft; a goose-and-duck (rhyming); the
culbatizing exercise (Urquhart); a grind; a hoist-in; a jottle; a
jumble-giblets; a jumble-up; an inside worry; a leap; a leap up the
ladder; a little of one with t’other (Durfey); a mount; a mow (David
Lyndsay, Burns, etc.); a nibble; a plaster of warm guts (Grose); a
poke; a put; a put-in; a random push (Burns); a rasp; a ride; a roger;
a rootle; a rush up the straight; a shot at the bull’s eye; a slide up
the board; a squirt-and-a squeeze; a touch-off; a touch-up; a
tumble-in; a wet-’un; a wipe at the place; a wollop-in.
Specific.—To have, or do, a back-scuttle, (q.v.); a buttered bun
(q.v.); a dog’s marriage (q.v.); a knee-trembler, perpendicular, or
upright (q.v.); a matrimonial (q.v.); spoon-fashion (q.v.); a st.
george (q.v.).
To play at, All-fours; Adam-and-Eve; belly-to-belly (Urquhart);
brangle-buttock (Urquhart); buttock-and-leave-her; cherry-pit
(Herrick); couple-your-navels; cuddle-my-cuddie (Durfey); Hey Gammer
Cook (C. Johnson); fathers-and-mothers; the first-game-ever-played;
Handie-Dandie; Hooper’s Hide (q.v.); grapple-my-belly (Urquhart);
horses-and-mares (schoolboys’); the close-buttock-game (Urquhart);
cock-in-cover; houghmagandie (Burns); in-and-in; in-and-out;
Irish-whist (where-the-jack (q.v.)-takes-the ace [see Monosyllable.]);
the-loose-coat-game (Urquhart); Molly’s hole (schoolboys’);
pickle-me-tickle-me (Urquhart); mumble-peg; prick-the-garter;
pully-hauly (Grose); put-in-all; the-same-old-game; squeezem-close;
stable-my-naggie; thread-the-needle; tops-and-bottoms; two-handed-put
(Grose); up-tails-all.
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