A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man’s tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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