1598. SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry IV., ii. 4. These villains will make the word captain as odious as the word OCCUPY.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Negotiare … to OCCUPIE a woman. Ibid. … a good wench, one that OCCUPIES freely.
1620–50. Percy Folio MS., 104. I bluntlye asket pro to OCCUPYE her; but first shee wold know wherfore that was good.
1640. JONSON, Epigrams, 117.
| Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand | |
| For ’s whore: Groyne still doth OCCUPY his land. |
1648. JONSON, Discoveries, VII. 119. Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as OCCUPY, nature, and the like.
1656. R. FLETCHER, Martiall, xi. 98.
| I can swive four times in a night: But thee | |
| Once in four years I cannot OCCUPIE. |
d. 1680. ROCHESTER, B’s Answer.
| The only bawd that ever I, | |
| For want of whore, could OCCUPY. |
1719. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, v. 139. For she will be OCCUPIED when others they lay still.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. OCCUPY. To occupy a woman, to have carnal knowledge of her.
| Ibid. | |
| Now all good men upon your lives, | |
| Turn round and OCCUPY your wives, | |
| And when that you have done your best, | |
| Turn arse to arse and take your rest. |
2. (American thieves’).—To wear.—MATSELL (1859).
