GRAVE DIGGER. Like a grave digger; up to the a-se in
business, and don't know which way to turn.
GRAVY-EYED. Blear-eyed, one whose eyes have a running
humour.
TO GREASE. To bribe. To grease a man in the fist; to bribe him. To grease a fat sow in the a-se; to give to a rich man. Greasy chin; a treat given to parish officers in part of commutation for a bastard: called also, Eating a child.
GREAT INTIMATE. As great as shirt and shitten a-se.
GREAT JOSEPH. A surtout. CANT.
GREEDY GUTS. A covetous or voracious person.
GREEK. St. Giles's Greek; the slang lingo, cant, or gibberish.
GREEN. Doctor Green; i.e. grass: a physician, or rather medicine, found very successful in curing most disorders to which horses are liable. My horse is not well, I shall send him to Doctor Green.
GREEN. Young, inexperienced, unacquainted; ignorant. How
green the cull was not to stag how the old file planted the
books. How ignorant the booby was not to perceive
how the old sharper placed the cards in such a manner
as to insure the game.
GREEN BAG. An attorney: those gentlemen carry their
clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they
have no deeds to carry, frequently fill them with an old
pair of breeches, or any other trumpery, to give themselves
the appearance of business.