BANKS'S HORSE. A horse famous for playing tricks, the property of one Banks. It is mentioned in Sir Walter Raleigh's Hist. of the World, p. 178; also by Sir Kenelm Digby and Ben Jonson.

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KID LAY. Rogues who make it their business to defraud young apprentices, or errand-boys, of goods committed to their charge, by prevailing on them to execute some trifling message, pretending to take care of their parcels till they come back.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): KID LAY. Rogues who make it their business to defraud young apprentices, or errand-boys, of goods committed to their charge, by prevailing on them to execute some trifling message, pretending to take care of their parcels till they come back. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

ORTHODOXY AND HETERODOXY. Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second a person who made use of the doxy of another man.

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BIT. Money. He grappled the cull's bit; he seized the man's money. A bit is also the smallest coin in Jamaica, equal to about sixpence sterling.

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FRESH MILK. Cambridge new comers to the university.

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VARMENT. (Whip and Cambridge.) Natty, dashing. He is quite varment, he is quite the go. He sports a varment hat, coat, &c.; he is dressed like a gentleman Jehu.

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UPPER STORY, or GARRET. Figuratively used to signify the head. His upper story or garrets are unfurnished; i.e. he is an empty or foolish fellow.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): UPPER STORY, or GARRET. Figuratively used to signify the head. His upper story or garrets are unfurnished; i.e. he is an empty or foolish fellow. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

HUCKLE MY BUFF. Beer, egg, and brandy, made hot.

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DUKE, or RUM DUKE. A queer unaccountable fellow.

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NUB. The neck; also coition.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): NUB. The neck; also coition. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

GOLLUMPUS. A large, clumsy fellow.

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FORK. A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket. 'The newest and most dexterous way, which is, to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick, into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.'

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DOWDY. A coarse, vulgar-looking woman.

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TO HOP THE TWIG. To run away. CANT.

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GROUND SWEAT. A grave.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HOCKING, or HOUGHING. A piece of cruelty practised by the butchers of Dublin, on soldiers, by cutting the tendon of Achilles; this has been by law made felony.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HOCKING, or HOUGHING. A piece of cruelty practised by the butchers of Dublin, on soldiers, by cutting the tendon of Achilles; this has been by law made felony. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

With the Guppe groups gone I applied and was approved to get a new poetry group going with fedigroups.social

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See original Fedi Tips post about Guppe groups being gone here: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115164282623836102

All those interested please feel free to tag and follow the fedigroups poetry group

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Started with one verse of 6 lines. Really wanted it to be a short poem, but I will admit I did hear a voice in the back of my head saying it was not finished. Now I am at 4 verses of 6 lines each, and well, it doesn't seem any closer to being completed. Whether this turns out any good or not, it's going to take a lot of work.

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Deleted poem I just posted from social and my website. Something was telling me it was incomplete and I just needed some time away from it and then to read it again to realize it didn't work as a short poem, but is just the beginning of a longer poem.

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NICKNACKS. Toys, baubles, or curiosities.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BRISTOL MAN. The son of an Irish thief and a Welch whore.

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TWISS. (IRISH) A Jordan, or pot de chambre. A Mr. Richard Twiss having in his "Travels" given a very unfavourable description of the Irish character, the inhabitants of Dublin, byway of revenge, thought proper to christen this utensil by his name.

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): TWISS. (IRISH) A Jordan, or pot de chambre. A Mr. Richard Twiss having in his "Travels" given a very unfavourable description of the Irish character, the inhabitants of Dublin, byway of revenge, thought proper to christen this utensil by his name. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

FART CATCHER. A valet or footman from his walking behind his master or mistress.

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A constellation of the retired house you’re in

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GAMON. To humbug. To deceive, To tell lies. What rum gamon the old file pitched to the flat; how finely the knowing old fellow humbugged the fool.

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BITCH. A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may he gathered from the regular Billinsgate or St. Giles's answer--"I may be a whore, but can't be a bitch."

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BITCH. A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may he gathered from the regular Billinsgate or St. Giles's answer--"I may be a whore, but can't be a bitch." A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

The Symphony of Tired Soot in Restraining Trembles

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Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

Remembering the Work of “The Crisis” Editor and Harlem Renaissance Writer

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Harlem Renaissance at PG:
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From The New York Public Library: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Jessie Redmon Fauset." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1923. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70706be0-c6dc-012f-dd26-58d385a7bc34 Fauset is posed in a straightforward, composed manner, facing slightly toward the camera. She wears refined clothing typical of the early 20th century. Her dress is modest yet elegant, with soft fabric at the collar. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70706be0-c6dc-012f-dd26-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

Letica Saints Wade in the Water

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CALIBOGUS. Rum and spruce beer, American beverage.

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If I am being completely honest, "squared market concrete-loving marches" was the natural next step of seeing marches on the streets and this poem, which is very old, significantly father back than the posted date. I never got positive feedback from it in all those years, but I knew it had meaning.

Trimester Commission on Marked Inlay Puddles
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I made up another word, farthling, (poor doggo)

squared market concrete-loving marches

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Another Dorothea "poem" - she is so spiteful, she just keeps repeating the word "temple", but she is referring to the internal temples inside us.

In which Dorothea sits behind me flipping the pages of my life
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What is basically a blues poem, this very short poem came to me in something like a vision last evening.

Thus Spoke the Unnamed, Unknown God
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LAYSTALL. A dunghill about London, on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied; or, in more technical terms, where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom t--d man, is stored.

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flashback to the beginning of the year:

New Lies of Patrimony Gloves
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The Accrued Mornings
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Alterpiece Coins in Loving Doubt and Regret
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BAWDY BASKET. The twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads, and obscene books to sell, but live mostly by stealing. Cant.

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Two of four books of poetry available freely on Internet Archive.

In The Winds Of The August Maladroit Parvenu
https://archive.org/details/in-the-winds-of-the-august-maladroit-parvenu-by-richard-j-tilley

Carnival Rations And Other Poems
https://archive.org/details/carnival-rations-and-other-poems-by-richard-j-tilley_202506

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https://www.richard.tilley.directory/

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Friends: Is there a name for stories built around a character turning up at multiple historical events, like "Forrest Gump" and "Little Big Man"? It's a form of roman á clef, but more specific. #literature #film

MAULED. Extremely drunk, or soundly beaten.

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GOLOSHES, i.e. Goliah's shoes. Large leathern clogs, worn by invalids over their ordinary shoes.

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TO BOUNCE. To brag or hector; also to tell an improbable story. To bully a man out of any thing. The kiddey bounced the swell of the blowen; the lad bullied the gentleman out of the girl.

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(reposting from this morning)

Dorothea’s Participatory Lyric
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Of the Temple Doormask and Retreat for Keymakers
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LINE OF THE OLD AUTHOR. A dram of brandy.

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CUNNY-THUMBED. To double one's fist with the thumb inwards, like a woman.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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