1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here: [ ]. Section X,Y AND Z LINK TO TABLE OF LINK Section X,Y AND Z XANTIPPE. The name of Socrates's wife: now used to signify a shrew or scolding wife. YAFFLING. Eating. CANT. TO YAM. To eat or stuff heartily. YANKEY, or YANKEY DOODLE. A booby, or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. A general appellation for an American. YARMOUTH CAPON. A red herring: Yarmouth is a famous place for curing herrings. YARMOUTH COACH. A kind of low two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse, not much unlike an Irish car. YARMOUTH PYE. A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to the king. YARUM. Milk. CANT. YEA AND NAY MAN. A quaker, a simple fellow, one who can only answer yes, or no. YELLOW. To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and finding me with his wife, he began to look confounded blue, and was, I thought, a little yellow. YELLOW BELLY. A native of the Fens of Lincolnshire; an allusion to the eels caught there. YELLOW BOYS. Guineas. TO YELP. To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions. YEST. A contraction of yesterday. YOKED. Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour performed at one spell by husbandmen, the day's work being divided in summer into three yokes. Kentish term. YORKSHIRE TYKE. A Yorkshire clown. To come Yorkshire over any one; to cheat him. YOUNG ONE. A familiar expression of contempt for another's ignorance, as "ah! I see you're a young one." How d'ye do, young one? TO YOWL. To cry aloud, or howl. ZAD. Crooked like the letter Z. He is a mere zad, or perhaps zed; a description of a very crooked or deformed person. ZANY. The jester, jack pudding, or merry andrew, to a mountebank. ZEDLAND. Great part of the west country, where the letter Z is substituted for S; as zee for see, zun for sun, About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved April 2022 from Grose, Francis. 2004. 1881 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at , located at . www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html
