bed-maker (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

bed-maker

Women employed at Cambridge to attend on the Students, sweep his room, &c. They will put their hands to any thing, and are generally blest with a pretty family of daughters: who unmake the beds, as fast as they are made by their mothers.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

bedizened * beef

Nearby

Nathan Bailey's 1721 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

beast
beast with two backs
beater cases
beau-nasty
beau trap
becalmed
beck
bed
bedfordshire
bedizened
bed-maker
beef
beef eater
beetle-browed
beetle-headed
beggar maker
beggar’s bullets
beilby’s ball
belch
belcher
bell