首页 › A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. › 第 204 题 PUMP SHIP, to evacuate urine.—_Sea._ PURE FINDERS, street collectors of dogs’ dung.
PURL, hunting term for a fall, synonymous with FOALED, or SPILT; “he’ll
get PURLED at the rails.”
PURL, a mixture of hot ale and sugar, with wormwood infused in it, a
favourite morning drink to produce an appetite; sometimes with gin and
spice added:—
“Two penn’orth o’ PURL—
Good ‘early PURL,’
’Gin all the world
To put your hair into a curl,
When you feel yourself queer of a mornin’.”
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