bleeding cully | Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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Bleeding
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Bleed>>. II. Bleeding ·adj Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, ·etc....

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Cully
·noun To trick, cheat, or impose on; to <<Deceive>>. II. Cully ·noun A person easily deceived, tric...

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cully
A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bleeding new
A metaphor borrowed from fish, which will not bleed when stale. ...

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bleeding-heart
n. another name for the kennedya (q.v.). 1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53: «The trailing sc...

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dark cully
A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery. ...

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flogging cully
A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one. ...

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keeping cully
One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public. ...

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Bleeding Heart Yard
In Fetter Lane (Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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bleeding the monkey
The monkey is a tall pyramidal kid or bucket, which conveys the grog from the grog-tub to the mess s...

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head cully of the pass
The top tilter of that gang throughout the whole army, who demands and receives contribution from al...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose