subs. (old).—See quot. 1785. Hence LULLY-prigger = a filcher of wet or drying linen. Fr. défleurir la picouse = LULLY-PRIGGING.
1754. POULTER, The Discoveries of John Poulter, p. 40. They are great priggers of LULLY.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. LULLEYS, wet linen.
1789. G. PARKER, Life’s Painter, p. 120. Upon the old slang, and sometimes a little LULLY-prigging.
