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HARRY. A country fellow. CANT.--Old Harry; the Devil.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CONFECT. Counterfeited.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CREW. A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words:
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BITER. A wench whose **** is ready to bite her arse; a lascivious, rampant wench.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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TOAD. Toad in a hole; meat baked or boiled in pye-crust. He or she sits like a toad on a chopping-block; a saying of any who sits ill on horseback. As much need of it as a toad of a side-pocket; said of a person who desires any thing for which he has no real occasion.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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PUMP. A thin shoe. To pump; to endeavour to draw a secret from any one without his perceiving it. Your pump is good, but your sucker is dry; said by one to a person who is attempting to pump him.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CROOK YOUR ELBOW. To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--according to the casuists of Bow-street and St. Giles's, adds great weight and efficacy to an oath.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CHITTERLINS. The bowels. There is a rumpus among my bowels, i.e. I have the colic. The frill of a shirt.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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FREEZE. A thin, small, hard cider, much used by vintners and coopers in parting their wines, to lower the price of them, and to advance their gain. A freezing vintner; a vintner who balderdashes his wine.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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STAYTAPE. A taylor; from that article, and its coadjutor buckram, which make no small figure in the bills of those knights of the needle.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.
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TRIP. A short voyage or journey, a false step or stumble, an error in the tongue, a bastard. She has made a trip; she has had a bastard.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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DICK. That happened in the reign of queen Dick, i. e. never: said of any absurd old story. I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me.
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What happens when you break down 'Progress' with with MEOW GPT –where Mediated Encounter Ontology meets Language Insufficiency Hypothesis?
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INDORSER. A sodomite. To indorse with a cudgel; to drub or beat a man over the back with a stick, to lay CANE upon Abel.
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QUEER CHECKERS. Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of people in the house.
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What is the hard problem of consciousness, and why is it so intractable?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4lewdpPt4tMbVZEkJ5skS5?si=LjlFTj0yQq6odr9OUjFaiw
An early Spotify summary on NotebookLM discusses a solution that will be posted on Philosophics Blog in a few hours. Have a listen.
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BILBOA. A sword. Bilboa in Spain was once famous for well-tempered blades: these are quoted by Falstaff, where he describes the manner in which he lay in the buck-basket. Bilboes, the stock; prison. Cant.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CIVIL RECEPTION. A house of civil reception; a bawdy-house, or nanny-house. See NANNY-HOUSE.
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COLTAGE. A fine or beverage paid by colts on their first entering into their offices.
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CORK-BRAINED. Light-headed, foolish.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Strap in folks, my Demystifying #Hangul video clocks in at 59:43 and requires as much academic objectivity as you can muster.
It premiers on 1 Jan. 2026.
MUMCHANCE. An ancient game like hazard, played with dice: probably so named from the silence observed in playing at it.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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HOT POT. Ale and brandy made hot.
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IRON. Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison windows, or, as the Irishman expresses them, the iron glass windows. Iron doublet; a prison. See STONE DOUBLET.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BANDOG. A bailiff or his follower; also a very fierce mastiff: likewise, a bandbox. CANT.
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First in a series of 5 articles.
Perspectival Realism is my attempt to build an ontology without the usual apologetic asterisk. Reality exists; we never meet it directly; mediation is inescapable; progress is still possible. No kings, no foundations, no Enlightenment bravado. Just the sober business of navigating constraint through perspective.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/20/perspectival-realism-the-first-ontology-without-an-asterisk//?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #epistemology #ontology #postmodernism #perspective #reality #constraints #cognition #language #psychology
CATER COUSINS. Good friends. He and I are not cater cousins, i.e. we are not even cousins in the fourth degree, or four times removed; that is, we have not the least friendly connexion.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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HEARING CHEATS. Ears. CANT.
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BLACK BOX. A lawyer. Cant.
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HOCKEY. Drunk with strong stale beer, called old hock. See HICKEY.
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Some LLMs have people wondering whether they are sentient. Semantics aside, they are programmed with prosociality in mind. Some project humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlcRP945LI8
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DOBIN RIG. Stealing ribbands from haberdashers early in the morning or late at night; generally practised by women in the disguise of maid servants.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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What does AI really mean when it calls your ideas “thoughtful” or “fascinating”?
This video takes a transcript from Claude & Gemini and reveals their internal tags and reasoning while arguing about Platonism, constructivism, and pattern-seeking.
A bit philosophical, a bit technical, very fun.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/18/video-inside-the-machine-what-llms-really-think-about-your-thoughtful-questions/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
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BOOTY. To play booty; cheating play, where the player purposely avoids winning.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?
Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.
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APE LEADER. An old maid; their punishment after death, for neglecting increase and multiply, will be, it is said, leading apes in hell.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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HASTY PUDDING. Oatmeal and milk boiled to a moderate thickness, and eaten with sugar and butter. Figuratively, a wet, muddy road: as, The way through Wandsworth is quite a hasty pudding. To eat hot hasty pudding for a laced hat is a common feat at wakes and fairs.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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GIGG. A nose. Snitchel his gigg; fillip his nose. Grunter's gigg; a hog's snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise, and a woman's privities. To gigg a Smithfield hank; to hamstring an over-drove ox, vulgarly called a mad bullock.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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ARTICLE. A wench. A prime article. A handsome girl. She's a prime article (WHIP SLANG), she's a devilish good piece, a hell of a GOER.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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HEAD CULLY OF THE PASS, or PASSAGE BANK. The top tilter of that gang throughout the whole army, who demands and receives contribution from all the pass banks in the camp.
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COB. A Spanish dollar.
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Sperm #whales use vowels like humans, new study finds
Scientists decoding whale clicks found patterns that echo the building blocks of human speech
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BULL. A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henery VII. by a bull is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Je máccuse. I confess to using AI. Now what?
https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/13/confession-i-use-ai/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=blog
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