Vulgar words in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 (Page 1)
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Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness.
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Professor Camper is an ass, of course; but when are we to expect any thing better from the illustrissimi of the land of sour-krout?