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Bitch
·noun An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.
II. Bitch ·noun The female of the c...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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bitch
A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even mo...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Queer
·noun Counterfeit money.
II. Queer ·add. ·adj To <<Puzzle>>.
III. Queer ·adj Mysterious; suspiciou...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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queer
or quire
Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless. How queerly the cull touts; how roguishly the fel...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to bitch
To yield, or give up an attempt through fear. To stand bitch; to make tea, or do the honours of the ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bitch booby
A country wench. Military term.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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grew-bitch
a greyhound bitch. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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queer wedges
Large buckles.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer bail
Insolvent sharpers, who make a profession of bailing persons arrested: they are generally styled Jew...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer birds
Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer bluffer
The master of a public-house the resort of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn or alehouse keeper....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer bung
An empty purse.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer checkers
Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of peo...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer cove
A rogue. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer cuffin
A justice of the peace; also a churl.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer degen
An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer ken
A prison. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer kicks
A bad pair of breeches.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer mort
A diseased strumpet. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer nab
A felt hat, or other bad hat.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer plungers
Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices,...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer prancer
A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer rooster
An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer street
Wrong. Improper. Contrary to one's wish. It is queer street, a cant phrase, to signify that it is wr...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer fish
An odd or eccentric person is often called a queer fish, an odd stick.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dog-bitch-thimble
An excellent contrivance by which the topsail-sheet-block is prevented making the half cant or turn ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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queer bit-makers
Coiners. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer cole fencer
A putter off, or utterer, of bad money.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer cole maker
A maker of bad money.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer as dick's hatband
Out of order, without knowing one's disease.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose