The Times, September 5, 1785.

Angel. The name of a woman, commonly of a very bad one.
Author. A laughing stock. It means likewise a poor fellow, and in general an object of contempt.
Bear. A country gentleman; or, indeed, any animal upon two legs that doth not make a handsome bow.
Beauty. The qualification with wich women generally go into keeping.
Beau. With the article A before it, means a great favourite of all women.
Brute. A word implying plain dealing and sincerity; but more especially applied to a philosopher.
Creature. A quality expression, of low contempt, properly confined only to the mouths of ladies who are right honourable.
Critic. Like homo, a name common to all human race.
Coxcomb. A word of reproach, and yet at the same time, signifying all that is most commendable.
Damnation. A term appropriated to plays; though sometimes more largely applied to all works of invention.
Death. The final end of man; as well of the thinking part of the body, as of all the other parts.
Dress. The principal accomplishment of men and women.
Dullness. A word applied by all writers to the wit and humour of others.
Eating. A science.
Fine. An adjective of a very peculiar kind, destroying, or an least lessening, the force of the substantive to wich it is joined: as fine gentleman, fine lady, fine house, fine cloaths, fine taste: - in all which fine is to be understood in a sense somewhat synonimous with useless.
Fool. A complex idea, compounded of poverty, honesty, piety, and simplicity.
Gallantry. Fornication and adultery.
Great. Applied to a thing, signifies bigness; when to a man often littleness, or meanness.
Good. A word of many different senses, or as the Latin Ago; for which reason it is but little used by the polite.
Happiness. Grandeur.
Honour. Duelling.
Humour. Scandalous lies, dancing and frolicking.
Judge. Justice. An old woman.
Knave. The name of four cards in every pack.
Knowledge. In general, means knowledge of the town; as this is indeed the only kind of knowledge ever spoken of in the polite world.
Learning. Pedantry.
Life. Dissipation.
Love. A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favourite objects, of all our appetites.
Marriage. A kind of traffic carried on between the two sexes, in which both are constantly endeavouring to cheat each other and both are commonly losers in the end.
Modesty. Aukwardness, rusticity.
Nobody. All the people in the world, except about 1000.
Nonsense. Philosophy, especially the philosophical writings of the ancients, and more especially of Aristote. Opportunity. The reason of cuckledom.
Patriot. A candidate for a place at court.
Politics. The art of getting such a place.
Promise. Nothing.
Religion. A word of no meaning; but which serves us a bugbear to frighten children with.
Riches. The only thing upon earth that is really valuable, or desirable.
Rogue, Rascal. A man of different party from yourself.
Sermone. A sleepy dose.
Sunday. The best time for amusement.
Shocking. An epithet which fine ladies apply to almost every thing. It is indeed an interjection (if I may so call it) of delicacy.
Temperence. Want of spirit.
Taste. The present whim of the town, whatever it be.
Teazing. Advice; chiefly that of a husband.
Virtue, Vice. Subjects of discourse.
Wit. Prophaneness, incecency, immorality, scurrility, mimickry, buffoonery, abuse of all good men, especially of the clergy.
Worth. Power. Rank. Wealth.
Wisdom. The art of acquiring all three.
World. Your own acquaintance.
Youth. Paleness of face - painting - varnish an emaciated person - false teeth, false hair; false eye-brows, false calves, and false rumps.
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