Kidney (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Kidney

Disposition, principles, humour. Of a strange kidney; of an odd or unaccountable humour. A man of a different kidney; a man of different principles.

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

Kidnapper * Kilkenny

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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