Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Staines
AT STAINES, adv. phr. (old).—See quot.
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1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. STAINES, a man who is in pecuniary distress is said to be AT STAINES, or at the Bush, alluding to the Bush Inn at that town.
