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Anarchist, activist, abolitionist, angelenoLOLogist, unschooler, anti-zionist Jew, mathematician. Formerly at https://michaelkohlhaas.org and https://sunshinecoalition.net, now at https://chez-risk.in. https://justmytoots.com/@[email protected]

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MISS LAYCOCK. The monosyllable.

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

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AdrianRiskin ,
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@TheVulgarTongue @histodons I mean I suppose it's obvious but I had to look it up in the OED anyway...

The female genitals; (hence) a woman offering sexual services; a prostitute.

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DEATH'S HEAD UPON A MOP-STICK. A poor miserable, emaciated fellow; one quite an otomy. See OTOMY.--He looked as pleasant as the pains of death.

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

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An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick...

-- W. B. Yeats

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@TheVulgarTongue @histodons https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/ek3a45y

Screenshot of linked page. Text: ottomy n. also otomy[SE anatomy; otamy n.] a skeleton; a very thin person. 1738Swift Polite Conversation 41: Why, my Lord, she was handsome in her Time; but, she can’t eat her Cake and have her Cake. I hear she grown a mere Otomy.1785, 1788, 1796Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.1811Lex. Balatronicum.1823Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.1834(con. 1737–9) W.H. Ainsworth Rookwood (1857) 143: That dried up old ottomy, who ought to grin in a glass case.1859, 1860Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.1873Sl. Dict.1895C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 55: Ottomy, a skeleton; a thin man.
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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons also spelled atomy!

    Screenshot from OED. Text: atomy Meaning & use 1. 1597– A skeleton. Cf. anatomy n. I.4, notomy n. Now rare. 1597 With deadlie visage paill and wan, mair like ane attomie nor man, I widderit cleine away. A. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae sig. B 2 1728 He is among the Otamys at Surgeon's Hall. J. Gay, Beggar's Opera ii. i. 19 1755 My bones..will be taken up smooth, and white, and bare as an atomy. T. Smollett, translation of M. de Cervantes, Don Quixote vol. II. iv. iii. 347 1823 His sides..looked just like an atomy, ribs and all. J. F. Cooper, Pioneers xiii. 146
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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons This is fascinating. I recently read Marcus Rediker on pirates and he mentions that the skeleton on many jolly Roger flags was called "an anatomy" but doesn't go into detail.

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    HEDGE WHORE. An itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios and bawdy-houses, by disposing of her favours on the wayside, under a hedge; a low beggarly prostitute.

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

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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons It's fascinating that they described this pure subsistence labor as "bilking" the capitalist enclosers of the means of production. This definition is written purely from the ruling class POV.

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    CAT CALL. A kind of whistle, chiefly used at theatres, to interrupt the actors, and damn a new piece. It derives its name from one of its sounds, which greatly resembles the modulation of an intriguing boar cat.

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

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    @TheVulgarTongue @JoBlakely @histodons Yep, that's it!

    Screenshot from online OED definition of boar-cat. Text: † boar-cat noun Obsolete. A male cat, a tom-cat. 1607–1767 A male cat, a tom-cat. 1607 The males will kill the young ones, if they come at them like as the Bore-cats. E. Topsell, Historie of Foure-footed Beastes 111 1767 Scratch, and bite, and tear, and kick, Like two boar-cats hung 'cross a stick. T. Bridges, Homer Travestie (ed. 2) vol. II. 172
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    • TheVulgarTongue Bot , to histodons group
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    AMBASSADOR. A trick to duck some ignorant fellow or landsman, frequently played on board ships in the warm latitudes.

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

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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons I need details!

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