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 Countries or Les Pays bas); pan; papo; periquito; perra (= bitch); piadosa (= Miss Primsy); posada general (= common inn); pozo nupcial (= nuptial well); propriedad; raja (= slit); regalona (= pet); Señora López (cf. Miss Brown); semana santa (= holy week); sierra (= mountain: cf. Mount Pleasant and le mont fendu); superiora (= abbess); tienda (= shop); tranvía (= tram-car); tronera (= loop-*hole); vaina (= scabbard); vasija morena (= brown jug).

Portuguese synonyms. Abbadessa (= abbess); aranha caranguegeira; as (= ace); asbeiras; assoadouro do caralho; boceta (classical); cabra (= goat); cadinho (= melting-pot or crucible); lagea; lanha; mata dos chatos (= crab-walk: also = motte); papudo (of a stout woman); passarinho; pinto; poço sem fundo (= Bottomless pit); registro de bacalháo (cf. Fishmarket).

Various. Kut (Dutch); gatte (Walloon).

1714. Lucas, Gamesters, 186.. They [girls] all at once set up a laughing occasion'd by some silly naughty word they have got by the end; perhaps a bawdy monosyllable, such as boys write upon walls.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

1786. Pinkerton, Ancient Scottish Poems, 384. Addison, the best instructor of the small morals who ever lived, yet thought nothing, in papers designed for the breakfast table, and the ladies, as he says himself, to tell us that a monosyllable was his delight.

1788. G. A. Stevens, Songs Comic & Satyrical, p. 88. But why from this round-about phrase must be guessed, What in one single syllable's better expressed; That syllable then I my sentiment call, So here's to that word, which is one word for all.

1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Monosyllable. A woman's commodity.

1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Monosyllable—(the); feminine only, and described by Nat Bailey as pudenda muliebris. Of all the thousand monosyllables in our language, this one only is designated by the definite article—the monosyllable; therefore do some men call it 'the article,' 'my article,' and 'her article,' as the case may be.

Mons, subs. (Winchester College).—A crowd. Also as verb: e.g., 'Square round there, don't mons.'—Notions.

Mons Meg, subs. (venery).—1. The female pudendum. For synonyms see Monosyllable.

Monstrous, adv. (colloquial).—A general intensitive. See Awful, Bloody, Large etc.

1619. Fletcher, Wild-Goose Chase, ii. 2. She is monstrous proud, then?

1635. Glapthorne, Hollander, ii. 1. The very scraping of our Galley-pots performes more monstrous wonders.

1693. Congreve, Old Batchelor, iv. 4. O monstrous filthy fellow.

1843. Maj. Jones Courtship, viii. That makes mother monstrous jealous.

Mons Veneris, subs. phr. (venery).—See quot. Cf. Mount Pleasant.

1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict. (1778), s.v. Mons veneris is that plump part of the female privities which covers the os pubis.

Montem, subs. (Eton College).—An Eton custom up to 1847, which consisted in the scholars going in procession on the Whit-Tuesday of every third year to a mound (Lat. ad montem), near the Bath Road, and exacting a gratuity from persons present or passing by. The collection was