GOD PERMIT, a stage coach, from that affectation of piety, frequently to be met with in advertisements of stage coaches or wagons, where most of their undertakings are promised with if God permit, or God willing. GODFATHERS, a jury to take the opinion of one’s god-fathers, to be tried before or by a jury. Goggle eyes, large prominent eyes to goggle, to flare. GOG, all-a-gog, impatient, anxious, or desirous of a thing. GO BY THE GROUND, a little short person, man or woman. GOING UPON THE DUB, going out to break open or pick the locks of houses. GOB, the mouth, also a bit or morsel, whence gobbets gift of the gob, wide mouthed, or one who speaks fluently, or sings well. GOALER’S COACH, a hurdle, traytors being usually conveyed from the goal to the place of execution, on a hurdle or fledge. GOAT, a lascivious person goats gigg, making the beast with two backs. This page includes definitions for the words goggles (meaning eyes), and gold finder (one who cleans toilets).
And he includes many nicknames for food and drink - words for gin (an enormously popular drink at the time) include: blue ruin, cobblers punch, crank, diddle, frog's wine, heart's ease, lightening and drain. He records many rude words, such as bum fodder (for toilet paper), or double jugg (for a man's bottom). So while 'The Vulgar Tongue' includes many of the words found in earlier 'scoundrels'' dictionaries (such as Head's 'Canting Academy'), it also lists a whole range of mundane slang words such as sheepish (for bashful), carrots (for red hair), or sweet (for expert, dexterous, clever).
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Grose was one of the first lexicographers to collect slang words from all corners of society, not just from the professional underworld of pickpockets and bandits. Francis Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue' was first published in 1785, and is a dictionary of slang words.
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