Aground
“Stuck fast, stopped, at a loss, ruined; like a boat or vessel aground.”
Category: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Regency Word Wednesday
Long Tongued
“Loquacious, not able to keep a secret.”
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Moll Thompson’s Mark
“M. T. i.e. empty: as, Take away this bottle, it has Moll Thompson’s mark upon it.”
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Waits
“Musicians of the lower order, who in most towns play under the windows of the chief inhabitants at midnight, a short time before Christmas, for which they collect a christmas-box from house to house. They are said to derive their name of waits from being always in waiting to celebrate weddings and other joyous happening within their district.”
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Twelver
“A shilling.”
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Ferrara
“Andrea Ferrara; the name of a famous sword-cutler: most of the Highland broad-swords are marked with his name; whence and Andrea Ferrara has become the common name for a glaymore or Highland broad-sword.”
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Surveyor of the Pavement
“One standing in the pillory.”
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Dutch Comfort
“Thank God it is no worse.”
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Suds
“In the suds; in trouble, in a disagreeable situation, or involved in some difficulty.”
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Marriage Music
“The squalling and crying of children.”
Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author 