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cuckold the parson:

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 .'
See Also: beat the gun, buck face, buck's face, capricornus, cokewold, cuckoldry, cuckoo, horn mad, horn work, horned, jump the gun, woman's heraldry

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