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English
Verb
couch a hogshead (third-person singular simple present couches a hogshead, present participle couching a hogshead, simple past and past participle couched a hogshead)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To lie down to sleep.
1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, T. Bensley, published 1814, page 66:I couched a hogshead in a Skypper this darkemans.
1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
1992, Cynthia Morgan, Court of Shadows:Mayhap we have been in the same bousing ken or stalling ken at some time. Mayhap we have couched a hogshead at the same house in Southwark.
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- (1788) “Couch a hogshead”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- Albert Barrère and Charles G Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “Couch a hogshead, to”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 274.
- John S Farmer; W E Henley, compilers (1893) “couch a hogshead”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. ">…], volume III, ">…] Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, page 329.