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cuckold the parson
Definition
Dated British expression, synonymous with today's jump the gun , meaning to have sexual intercourse with one's betrothed before marriage. Defined by Captain Francis Grose in Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811): ' To bed with one's wife before she has been churched.'
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