A silly fellow. A dupe. To stand mouth; i.e. to be duped.
A noisy fellow. Mouth half cocked; one gaping and staring at every thing he sees. To make any one laugh on the wrong, or t’other side of his mouth; to make him cry or grieve.
One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. “Misers are muckworms.” –Pope.
A miser.
In The Earl of Her Dreams a reference is made to the tale of Joshua McShaver and Caroline Travis. An intrepid young soul decided to tell his tale try his hand at the tale. Enjoy! And feel free to post comments to Joshua at the end. He said he will answer. 
Here is a sample:
He had just started carving the latest notch in a leg of his wood frame bed, each notch representing one of the countless ladies that he had… entertained. Countless that is until he started carving the bed to keep track. A fine plan, he thought, until today when the leg finally gave way from one too many notches.
The parson’s mousetrap; the state of matrimony.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
