Blue Skin (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Blue Skin

A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross of the black breed, or, as it is termed, a lick of the tar brush.

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

Blue Plumb * Blue Tape

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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

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