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Pluck. To pluck a rose; an expression said to be used by women for going to the necessary house, which in the country usually stands in the garden.

Pope's Nose. The rump of a turkey.

Punch. A girl that is ripe for a man, is called a punchable wench.

Rantallion. One whose scrotum is so relaxed as to be longer than his penis, i.e. whose shot pouch is longer than the barrel of his piece.

Mischief. A man loaded with mischief, i.e. a woman on one shoulder, and a monkey on t'other.

Muff. The private parts of a woman. To the well wearing of your muff, mort; to the happy consummation of your marriage.

Pigeon. To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead off a church.

Plaister of Warm Guts. One warm belly clapped to another: a receipt frequently prescribed for different disorders.

Lobcock. A large relaxed penis; also a dull inanimate fellow.

Lobster. I will not make a lobster kettle of my cunt; a reply frequently made by the nymphs of the Point of Portsmouth, when requested by a soldier to grant him a favor.

Medlar. A fruit, vulgarly called an open arse; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that unless it is as rotten as a turd, it is not worth a fart.

Kiss Mine Arse. An offer, as Fielding observes, very frequently made, but never, as he could learn, literally accepted.

Knot. A crew, gang, or fraternity. He has tied a knot with his tongue, that he cannot untie with his teeth; he is married.

Lazybones. An instrument like a pair of tongs, for old or very fat people to take any thing from the ground without stooping.

Hop-o-my-thumb. A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a hop-o-my-thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shoulder, might pick a pea out of her arse.

Irish Legs. Thick legs ... It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispensation from the Pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards.

Kettle Drums. Cupid's kettle drums; a woman's breasts, called by sailors chest and bedding.

Giblets. To join giblets; said of a man and woman who cohabit as husband and wife, without being married; also to copulate.

Giles's, or St. Giles's, Breed. Fat, ragged, and saucy.

Gold Finder. One whose employment is to empty necessary houses; called also a tom turd man, and night man.

Green Gown. To give a girl a green gown; to tumble her on the grass.

Fart. He has let a brewer's fart, grains and all; said of one who has bewrayed his breeches.

Feague. To feague a horse; to put ginger up a horse's fundament, and formerly, as it is said, a live eel, to make him lively and carry his tail well.

Fice, or Foyse. A small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap dogs.

Dog's Portion. A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer or dangler after women.

Duke of Limbs. A tall, awkward, ill-made fellow.

Dye Hard, or Game. To dye hard, is to shew no signs of fear or contrition at the gallows; not to whiddle or squeak.

Eve's Custom-house. Where Adam made his first entry. The monosyllable.

Chitterlins. The bowels. There is a rumpus among my chitterlins; i.e. I have the cholick.

Coffee House. A necessary house. To make a coffee house of a woman's cunt; to go in and out and spend nothing.

Cold Meat. A dead wife is the best cold meat in a man's house.

To Dock. Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis, from a venereal complaint.

Charren. His eyes water from the smoke of Charren; a man of that place coming out of his house weeping, because his wife had beat him, told his neighbors that the smoke had made his eyes water.

Chelsea. A village near London, famous for the military hospital ... "Dead Chelsea, by God!" an exclamation uttered by a grenadier at Fontenoy, on having his leg carried away by a cannonball.

To Cascade. To vomit.

Cauliflower. A large white wig, such as is commonly worn by the dignified clergy ... Also the private parts of a woman ... A woman, who was giving evidence ... made use of the term cauliflower; for which the judge ... reproved her, saying she might as well call it artichoke. Not so, my Lord, replied she; for an artichoke has a bottom, but a cunt and a cauliflower have none.

Butcher's Dog. To be like a butcher's dog, i.e. lie by the beef without touching it; a simile often applicable to married men.

Cackling Farts. Eggs.

Carvel's Ring. The private parts of a woman. Hans Carvel ... dreamed that the devil gave him a ring, which, so long as he had it on his finger, would prevent his being made a cuckold: waking, he found he had got his finger the Lord knows where.

Biter. A wench whose cunt is ready to bite her arse; a lascivious, rampant wench.

Book-keeper. One who never returns borrowed books. Out of one's books; out of one's favour.

Bread and Butter Fashion. One slice upon the other. John and his maid were caught lying bread-and-butter fashion.

Bachelor's Fare. Bread and cheese and kisses.

Beard Splitter. A man much given to wenching.

Beggars Bullets. Stones. The beggars bullets begin to fly, i.e. they began to throw stones.

Bidet, commonly pronounced Biddy. A kind of tub, contrived for ladies to wash themselves, for which purpose they bestride it like a little French poney, or post-horse.

Bargain. To sell a bargain; a species of wit, much in vogue about the latter end of the reign of Queen Anne ... the maids of honour often amused themselves with it ... A lady would come into a room full of company, apparently in a fright, crying out, "It is white, and follows me!" On any of the company asking, "What?" she sold him the bargain, by saying, "Mine arse".

Back Gammon Player, Back Door (Usher or Gentlemen of the). A sodomite.

Bag of Nails. He squints like a bag of nails; i.e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails. The old Bag of Nails at Pimlico; originally the Bacchanals.

Barber's Chair. She is as common as a barber's chair, in which a whole parish sit to be trimmed; said of a prostitute.

Ankle. A girl who is got with child, is said to have sprained her ankle.

Apple Dumplin' Shop. A woman's bosom.

Ars Musica. A bum-fiddle.

Backed. Dead. He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed: he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carrying to the grave.

Acorn. You will ride a horse foaled by an acorn; i.e. the gallows ... You will be hanged.

Admiral of the Narrow Seas. One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him.

All Holiday. It is all holiday at Peckham, or it is all holiday with him; a saying signifying that it is all over with the business or person spoken of or alluded to.

Word: "He used to say the service was full of fallals. Of course, we all liked Church much better than Chapel, and he never interfered with our going."


1. (colloquial, dated) ornaments; trinkets; frippery

Wiki: "It was recorded in the abyssopelagic zone."

Abyssopelagic zone > Hadopelagic zone

05. The Comforts of Home, 4 stars. Mother takes on charity case bad girl, judgemental son disapproves.
06. The Lame Shall Enter First, 3 stars. Narcissist do-gooder wants to save a clever boy.
07. Revelation, 2 stars. Snob has an eventful waiting room experience.
08. Parker's Back, 3 stars. Tattooed man feels trapped by marriage.
09. Judgement Day, 2 stars. Unpleasant old man wants to be buried back home.

01. Everything That Rises Must Converge, 3 stars. Ungrateful son takes every opportunity to cut his ignorant mother down.
02. Greenleaf, 4 stars. Nasty boss lady lashes out about stray animal on property.
03. A View of the Woods, 4 stars. Patriarch sells off land his family uses out of spite.
04. The Enduring Chill, 4 stars. Drama queen son returns home to die.

Wiki: "...though she joined in the general Lobgesang, she was tempted to inquire whether the ice had not been brought from the South Pole by some Antarctic expedition."

Wiki: "...they actually were the shoulder bones of domestic animals that had been used for prophecy. Scapulimancy is very ancient, and the abbot had told me that the oracle bones of An-yang are the only solid proof that the semi-mythological Shang Dynasty had actually existed."

Wiki: "For example, exposure to dust storms on Mars would be very harmful, as would inhalation of the fine regolith covering the surface of the Moon..."

Wiki: "The Russians plan to launch a laboratory called Nauka, along with a European robotic arm, later this decade."

Wiki: "Sleep deprivation, lack of food for a few days and a good dose of strenuous effort usually do the trick, whether you are in the Brecon Beacons or the Sardinian mountains."

Wiki: "Prior to her recruitment as a cosmonaut in 1962, Tereshkova worked in a textile factory and was an amateur skydiver."

06. Rodney Has a Relapse, 2 stars. Former poet takes it back up.
07. Tangled Hearts, 2 stars. Golfers romantic lives, again.
08. Birth of a Salesman, 3 stars. Old money tries to be useful.
09. How's That, Umpire?, 3 stars. Love based on mutual dislike of cricket.
10. Success Story, 4 stars. A fail-proof plan proves tricky to pull off.

01. The Shadow Passes, 3 stars. Old nanny causes marital strife for scamp husband.
02. Bramley Is So Bracing, 3 stars. Mistaken identity antics.
03. Up from the Depths, 3 stars. Golf vs. tennis.
04. Feet of Clay, 3 stars. Golf and engagements.
05. Excelsior, 3 stars. Golfer woos family. Everything is golf.