purfled
adjective
Short-winded, especially in consequence of being too lusty.
adjective
Short-winded, especially in consequence of being too lusty.
noun
A grower of roses. [related to rosary, originally meaning a rose garden]
noun
The deep emotional bond between people, especially those separated by distance or death. [from Hebrew]
verb
To enjoy a woman in a hasty manner, with her clothes on, or without going to bed. Also, to take a flyer.
adjective
Feeling happy due to being honest and wholesome.
noun
The shivers, creeps, nervousness; colloquial from Southeastern U.S.
noun
The use, or choice, of words and phrases.
noun
A cook. From ‘box up the dough‘, to cook – American slang
verb
The practice of wrapping one person in a bed accompanied by another.
Bundling used to be a widely diffused Welsh custom before marriage. The betrothed or engaged pair went to bed, or more frequently lay together, in their clothes . . . Even among families of good position it is tacitly recognized and tolerated, and it was at the outset the product of a clothed state, where touch had to play the part of sight in the unclothed.
– W. C. Hazlitt’s Faith and Folklore of the British Isles, 1870
Practiced in America on a scarcity of beds where, on such an occasion, husbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters.
– Capt. Francis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796