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ABEL-WACKETS		Blows given on the palm of the hand with a twisted handkerchief, instead of a ferula; a jocular punishment among seamen, who sometimes play at cards for wackets, the loser suffering as many strokes as he has lost games.
ABRAM COVE		A cant word among thieves, signifying a naked or poor man; also a lusty, strong rogue.
ACADEMY, or PUSHING SCHOOL		A brothel. The Floating Academy; the lighters on board of which those persons are confined, who by a late regulation are condemned to hard labour, instead of transportation. Campbell's Academy; the same, from a gentleman of that name, who had the contract for victualling the hulks or lighters.
AFTER-CLAP		A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end.
ALDERMAN		A roasted turkey garnished with sausages; the latter are supposed to represent the gold chain worn by those magistrates.
ALLS		The five alls is a country sign, representing five human figures, each having a motto under him. The first is a king in his regalia; his motto, I govern all: the second, a bishop in pontificals; motto, I pray for all: third, a lawyer in his gown; motto, I plead for all: fourth: a soldier in his regimentals, fully accoutred; motto, I fight for all: fifth, a poor countryman with his scythe and rake; motto, I pay for all.
ALTITUDES		The man is in his altitudes, i.e. he is drunk.
AMBASSADOR		A trick to duck some ignorant fellow or landsman, frequently played on board ships in the warm latitudes. It is thus managed: A large tub is filled with water, and two stools placed on each side of it. Over the whole is thrown a tarpaulin, or old sail: this is kept tight by two persons, who are to represent the king and queen of a foreign country, and are seated on the stools. The person intended to be ducked plays the Ambassador, and after repeating a ridiculous speech dictated to him, is led in great form up to the throne, and seated between the king and queen, who rising suddenly as soon as he is seated, he falls backwards into the tub of water.
APOSTLES		To manoeuvre the apostles, i.e. rob Peter to pay Paul; that is, to borrow money of one man to pay another.
APPLE DUMPLIN SHOP		A woman's bosom.
APRON STRING HOLD		An estate held by a man during his wife's life.
ARBOR VITAE		A man's penis.
ARCH ROGUE, DIMBER DAMBER UPRIGHT MAN		The chief of a gang of thieves or gypsies.
ARTHUR, KING ARTHUR		A game used at sea, when near the line, or in a hot latitude. It is performed thus: A man who is to represent king Arthur, ridiculously dressed, having a large wig made out of oakum, or some old swabs, is seated on the side, or over a large vessel of water. Every person in his turn is to be ceremoniously introduced to him, and to pour a bucket of water over him, crying, hail, king Arthur! if during this ceremony the person introduced laughs or smiles (to which his majesty endeavours to excite him, by all sorts of ridiculous gesticulations), he changes place with, and then becomes, king Arthur, till relieved by some brother tar, who has as little command over his muscles as himself.
ATHANASIAN WENCH, or QUICUNQUE VULT		A forward girl, ready to oblige every man that shall ask her.
AUTEM MORT		A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
BACK BITER		One who slanders another behind his back, i.e. in his absence. His bosom friends are become his back biters, said of a lousy man.
BACK DOOR (USHER, or GENTLEMAN OF THE)		A sodomite.
BACK UP		His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, when angry, always raising its back. An allusion also sometimes used to jeer a crooked man; as, So, Sir, I see somebody has offended you, for your back is up.
BAG OF NAILS		He squints like a bag of nails; ie: his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails. The old BAG OF NAILS at Pimlico; originally the BACCHANALS.
BAGGAGE		Heavy baggage; women and children. Also a familiar epithet for a woman; as, cunning baggage, wanton baggage, etc.
BALLOCKS		The testicles of a man or beast; also a vulgar nick name for a parson. His brains are in his ballocks, a cant saying to designate a fool.
BANG UP		Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up cove; a dashing fellow who spends his money freely. To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style: as the swell's rattler and prads are bang up prime; the gentleman sports an elegant carriage and fine horses.
BARKER		The shopman of a bow-wow shop, or dealer in second hand clothes, particularly about Monmouth-Street, who walks before his master's door, and deafens every passenger with his cries of - Clothes, coats, or gowns - what d'ye want, gemmen? - what d'ye buy? See BOW-WOW SHOP.
BARROW MAN		A man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt.
BARTHOLOMEW BABY		A person dressed up in a tawdry manner, like the dolls or babies sold at Bartholomew fair.
BASTARD		The child of an unmarried woman.
BAWBELS, or BAWBLES		Trinkets; a man's testicles.
BAWDY-HOUSE BOTTLE		A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, to gain what they call an honest livelihood: indeed this is one of the least reprehensible; the less they give a man of their infernal beverages for his money, the kinder they behave to him.
BAYARD OF TEN TOES		To ride bayard of ten toes, is to walk on foot. Bayard was a horse famous in old romances, BEAK. A justice of-peace, or magistrate. Also a judge or chairman who presides in court. I clapp'd my peepers full of tears, and so the old beak set me free; I began to weep, and the judge set me free.
BEAR		One who contracts to deliver a certain quantity of sum of stock in the public funds, on a future day, and at stated price; or, in other words, sells what he has not got, like the huntsman in the fable, who sold the bear's skin before the bear was killed. As the bear sells the stock he is not possessed of, so the bull purchases what he has not money to pay for; but in case of any alteration in the price agreed on, either party pays or receives the difference. Exchange Alley.
BEARD SPLITTER		A man much given to wenching.
BEAST WITH TWO BACKS		A man and woman in the act of copulation. Shakespeare in Othello.
BECK		A beadle. See HERMANBECK.
BED		Put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a spade; said of one that is dead and buried. You will go up a ladder to bed, i.e. you will be hanged. In many country places, persons hanged are made to mount up a ladder, which is afterwards turned round or taken away, whence the term, "Turned off."
BEEF		To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef on us. - To be in a man's beef; to wound him with a sword. To be in a woman's beef; to have carnal knowledge of her. Say you bought your beef of me, a jocular request from a butcher to a fat man. implying that he credits the butcher who serves him.
BEEF EATER		A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry VII. Their office was to stand near the bouffet, or cupboard, thence called Bouffetiers, since corrupted to Beef Eaters. Others suppose they obtained this name from the size of their persons, and the easiness of their duty, as having scarce more to do than to eat the king's beef.
BELLYFULL		A hearty beating, sufficient to make a man yield or give out. A woman with child is also said to have got her belly full.
BENE DARKMANS		Goodnight.
BEVERAGE		Garnish money, or money for drink, demanded of any one having a new suit of clothes.
BILBOA		A sword. Bilboa in Spain was once famous for well-tempered blades: these are quoted by Falstaff, where he describes the manner in which he lay in the buck-basket. Bilboes, the stock; prison.
BILLINGSGATE LANGUAGE		Foul language, or abuse. Billingsgate is the market where the fishwomen assemble to purchase fish; and where, in their dealings and disputes, they are somewhat apt to leave decency and good manners a little on the left hand.
BING		To go. Bing avast; get you gone. Binged avast in a darkmans; stole away in the night. Bing we to Rumeville: shall we go to London?
BIT		Money. He grappled the cull's bit; he seized the man's money. A bit is also the smallest coin in Jamaica, equal to about sixpence sterling.
BITCH		A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may he gathered from the regular Billinsgate or St. Giles's answer - "I may be a whore, but can't be a bitch."
BITE		A cheat; also a woman's privities. The cull wapt the mort's bite; the fellow enjoyed the wench heartily.
BLARNEY		He has licked the blarney stone; he deals in the wonderful, or tips us the traveller. The blarney stone is a triangular stone on the very top of an ancient castle of that name in the county of Cork in Ireland, extremely difficult of access; so that to have ascended to it, was considered as a proof of perseverance, courage, and agility, whereof many are supposed to claim the honour, who never atchieved the adventure: and to tip the blarney, is figuratively used telling a marvellous story, or falsity; and also sometimes to express flattery. Irish.
BLINDMAN'S BUFF		A play used by children, where one being blinded by a handkerchief bound over his eyes, attempts to seize any one of the company, who all endeavour to avoid him; the person caught, must be blinded in his stead.
BLINDMAN'S HOLIDAY		Night, darkness.
BLOW THE GROUNSILS		To lie with a woman on the floor.
BLOWEN		A mistress or whore of a gentleman of the scamp. The blowen kidded the swell into a snoozing ken, and shook him of his dummee and thimble; the girl inveigled the gentleman into a brothel and robbed him of his pocket book and watch.
BLOWER		A pipe. How the swell funks his blower and lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman makes with his pipe, and drinks brandy.
BLOWSE, or BLOWSABELLA		A woman whose hair is dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern.
BLUE SKIN		A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross of the black breed, or, as it is termed, a lick of the tar brush.
BOB STAY		A rope which holds the bowsprit to the stem or cutwater. Figuratively, the frenum of a man's yard.
BOB TAIL		A lewd woman, or one that plays with her tail; also an impotent man, or an eunuch. Tag, rag, and bobtail; a mob of all sorts of low people. To shift one's bob; to move off, or go away. To bear a bob; to join in chorus with any singers. Also a term used by the sellers of game, for a partridge.
BOG LANDER		An Irishman.
BOG TROTTER		An Irishman; Ireland being famous for its large bogs, which furnish the chief fuel in many parts of that kingdom.
BOH		Said to be the name of a Danish general, who so terrified his opponent Foh, that he caused him to bewray himself. Whence, when we smell a stink, it is custom to exclaim, Foh! i.e. I smell general Foh. He cannot say Boh to a goose; i.e. he is a cowardly or sheepish fellow. There is a story related of the celebrated Ben Jonson, who always dressed very plain; that being introduced to the presence of a nobleman, the peer, struck by his homely appearance and awkward manner, exclaimed, as if in doubt, "you Ben Johnson! why you look as if you could not say Boh to a goose!" "Boh!" replied the wit.
BONE PICKER		A footman.
BOOKS		Cards to play with. To plant the books; to place the cards in the pack in an unfair manner.
BORE		A tedious, troublesome man or woman, one who bores the ears of his hearers with an uninteresting tale; a term much in fashion about the years 1780 and 1781.
BOUNCER		A large man or woman; also a great lie.
BOW-WOW		The childish name for a dog; also a jeering appellation for a man born at Boston in America.
BOW-WOW SHOP		A salesman's shop in Monmouth-street; so called because the servant barks, and the master bites. See BARKER.
BOWSPRIT		The nose, from its being the most projecting part of the human face, as the bowsprit is of a ship.
BREAST FLEET		He or she belongs to the breast fleet; i.e. is a Roman catholic; an appellation derived from their custom of beating their breasts in the confession of their sins.
BREECHED		Money in the pocket: the swell is well breeched, let's draw him; the gentleman has plenty of money in his pocket, let us rob him.
BREECHES		To wear the breeches; a woman who governs her husband is said to wear the breeches.
BRIM		(Abbreviation of Brimstone.) An abandoned woman; perhaps originally only a passionate or irascible woman, compared to brimstone for its inflammability.
BRISKET BEATER		A Roman catholic. SEE BREAST FLEET, and CRAW THUMPER.
BRISTOL MAN		The son of an Irish thief and a Welch whore.
BROTHER STARLING		One who lies with the same woman, that is, builds in the same nest.
BRUISER		A boxer; one skilled in the ar of boxing also an inferior workman among chasers.
BUCKINGER'S BOOT		The monosyllable. Matthew Buckinger was born without hands and legs; notwithstanding which he drew coats of arms very neatly, and could write the Lord's Prayer within the compass of a shilling; he was married to a tall handsome woman, and traversed the country, shewing himself for money.
BUFFER		A man who takes an oath: generally applied to Jew bail.
BULL		A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henery VII. by a bull is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull beef; to look fierce or surly. Town bull, a great whore-master.
BULLY TRAP		A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in.
BUM		To arrest a debtor. The gill bummed the swell for a thimble; the tradesman arrested the gentleman for a watch.
BUM BOAT		A boat attending ships to retail greens, drams, etc. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating chandler's shop.
BUMBO		Brandy, water, and sugar; also the negro name for the private parts of a woman.
BUNDLING		A man and woman sleeping in the same bed, he with his small clothes, and she with her petticoats on; an expedient practised in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such an occasion, husbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters. This custom is now abolished. See Duke of Rochefoucalt's Travels in America.
BURNER		A clap. The blowen tipped the swell a burner; the girl gave the gentleman a clap.
BURNER		He is no burner of navigable rivers; i.e. he is no conjuror, or man of extraordinary abilities; or rather, he is, but a simple fellow. See THAMES.
BURNING SHAME		A lighted candle stuck into the parts of a woman, certainly not intended by nature for a candlestick.
BUS-NAPPER'S KENCHIN		A watchman.
BUSHEL BUBBY		A full breasted woman.
BUTTER AND EGGS TROT		A kind of short jogg trot, such as is used by women going to market, with butter and eggs. - he looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth, yet I warrant you cheese would not choak her; a saying of a demure looking woman, of suspected character. Don't make butter dear; a gird at the patient angler.
BUTTER BOX		A Dutchman, from the great quantity of butter eaten by the people of that country.
BUTTERED BUN		One lying with a woman that has just lain with another man, is said to have a buttered bun.
BUZMAN		A pickpocket.
BUZZARD		A simple fellow. A blind buzzard: a pur-blind man or woman.
CAB		A brothel. Mother: how many tails have you in your cab? how many girls have you in your bawdy house?
CAG		To be cagged. To be sulky or out of humour. The cove carries the cag; the man is vexed or sullen.
CALVES		His calves are gone to grass; a saying of a man with slender legs without calves. Veal will be cheap, calves fall; said of a man whose calves fall away.
CAMBRIDGE FORTUNE		A wind-mill and a water-mill, used to signify a woman without any but personal endowments.
CAP ACQUAINTANCE		Persons slightly acquainted, or only so far as mutually to salute with the hat on meeting. A woman who endeavours to attract the notice of any particular man, is said to set her cap at him.
CAPTAIN		Led captain; an humble dependant in a great family, who for a precarious subsistence, and distant hopes of preferment, suffers every kind of indignity, and is the butt of every species of joke or ill-humour. The small provision made for officers of the army and navy in time of peace, obliges many in both services to occupy this wretched station. The idea of the appellation is taken from a led horse, many of which for magnificence appear in the retinues of great personages on solemn occasions, such as processions, etc.
CARVEL'S RING		The private parts of a woman. Ham Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed that the Devil gave him a ring, which, so long as he had it on his finger, would prevent his being made a cuckold: waking he found he had got his finger the Lord knows where. See Rabelais, and Prior's versification of the story.
CAT		A common prostitute. An old cat; a cross old woman.
CAT'S FOOT		To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife hen-pecked. To live like dog and cat; spoken of married persons who live unhappily together. As many lives as a cat; cats, according to vulgar naturalists, have nine lives, that is one less than a woman. No more chance than a cat in hell without claws; said of one who enters into a dispute or quarrel with one greatly above his match.CAT LAP. Tea, called also scandal broth. See SCANDAL BROTH.
CAT-HEADS		A Woman's breasts. SEA PHRASE.
CATAMARAN		An old scraggy woman; from a kind of float made of spars and yards lashed together, for saving ship-wrecked persons.
CATCHING HARVEST		A dangerous time for a robbery, when many persons are on the road, on account of a horse-race, fair, or some other public meeting.
CAULIFLOWER		A large white wig, such as is commonly worn by the dignified clergy, and was formerly by physicians. Also the private parts of a woman; the reason for which appellation is given in the following story: A woman, who was giving evidence in a cause wherein it was necessary to express those parts, made use of the term cauliflower; for which the judge on the bench, a peevish old fellow, reproved her, saying she might as well call it artichoke. Not so, my lord, replied she; for an artichoke has a bottom, but a cunt and a cauliflower have none.
CAUTIONS		The four cautions: I. Beware of a woman before. - II. Beware of a horse behind. - III. Beware of a cart side-ways. - IV. Beware of a priest every way.
CHAPERON		The cicisbeo, or gentleman usher to a lady; from the French.
CHARREN		The smoke of Charren. - His eyes water from the smoke of Charren; a man of that place coming out of his house weeping, because his wife had beat him, told his neighbours the smoke had made his eyes water.
CHATTER BOX		One whose tongue runs twelve score to the dozen, a chattering man or woman.
CHAW BACON		A countryman. A stupid fellow.
CHICKEN-BREASTED		Said of a woman with scarce any breasts.
CHIVING LAY		Cutting the braces of coaches behind, on which the coachman quitting the box, an accomplice robs the boot; also, formerly, cutting the back of the coach to steal the fine large wigs then worn.
CHRIST-CROSS ROW		The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ's cross PREFIXED before and AFTER the twenty-four letters.
CHRISTIAN		A tradesman who has faith, i.e. will give credit.
CHRISTIAN PONEY		A chairman.
CHUNK		Among printers, a journeyman who refuses to work for legal wages; the same as the flint among taylors. See FLINT.
CHURL		Originally, a labourer or husbandman: figuratively a rude, surly, boorish fellow. To put a churl upon a gentleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drunk wine.
CLAN		A family's tribe or brotherhood; a word much used in Scotland. The head of the clan; the chief: an allusion to a story of a Scotchman, who, when a very large louse crept down his arm, put him back again, saying he was the head of the clan, and that, if injured, all the rest would resent it.
CLAPPER		The tongue of a bell, and figuratively of a man or woman.
CLEAVER		One that will cleave; used of a forward or wanton woman.
CLICKER		A salesman's servant; also, one who proportions out the different shares of the booty among thieves.
CLICKET		Copulation of foxes; and thence used, in a canting sense, for that of men and women: as, The cull and the mort are at clicket in the dyke; the man and woman are copulating in the ditch.
CLINCH		A pun or quibble. To clinch, or to clinch the nail; to confirm an improbable story by another: as, A man swore he drove a tenpenny nail through the moon; a bystander said it was true, for he was on the other side and clinched it.
CLOD HOPPER		A country farmer, or ploughman.
CLOVEN, CLEAVE, or CLEFT		A term used for a woman who passes for a maid, but is not one.
CLUB		A meeting or association, where each man is to spend an equal and stated sum, called his club.
COBBLE		To mend, or patch; likewise to do a thing in a bungling manner.
COCK ALLEY or COCK LANE		The private parts of a woman.
COCK OF THE COMPANY		A weak man, who from the desire of being the head of the company associates with low people, and pays all the reckoning.
COCK, or CHIEF COCK OF THE WALK		The leading man in any society or body; the best boxer in a village or district.
COCKNEY		A nick name given to the citizens of London, or persons born within the sound of Bow bell, derived from the following story: A citizen of London, being in the country, and hearing a horse neigh, exclaimed, Lord! how that horse laughs! A by-stander telling him that noise was called NEIGHING, the next morning, when the cock crowed, the citizen to shew he had not forgot what was told him, cried out, Do you hear how the COCK NEIGHS? The king of the cockneys is mentioned among the regulations for the sports and shows formerly held in the Middle Temple on Childermas Day, where he had his officers, a marshal, constable, butler, etc. See DUGDALE'S ORIGINES JURIDICIALES, p. 247. - Ray says, the interpretation of the word Cockney, is, a young person coaxed or conquered, made wanton; or a nestle cock, delicately bred and brought up, so as, when arrived a man's estate, to be unable to bear the least hardship. Whatever may be the origin of this appellation, we learn from the following verses, attributed to Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, that it was in use. in the time of king Henry II. Was I in my castle at Bungay, Fast by the river Waveney, I would not care for the king of Cockney; ie: the king of London.
COD PIECE		The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar? - a jocular attack on a patient angler by watermen, etc.
COFFEE HOUSE		A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's cunt; to go in and out and spend nothing.
COLD BURNING		A punishment inflicted by private soldiers on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of their mess laws; it is administered in the following manner: The prisoner is set against the wall, with the arm which is to be burned tied as high above his head as possible. The executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent, patting him, and leading the water gently down his body, till it runs out at his breeches knees: this is repeated to the other arm, if he is sentenced to be burned in both.
COLD MEAT		A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man's house.
COLLECTOR		A highwayman.
COLLEGE COVE		The College cove has numbered him, and if he is knocked down he'll be twisted; the turnkey of Newgate has told the judge how many times the prisoner has been tried before and therefore if he is found guilty, he certainly will be hanged. It is said to be the custom of the Old Bailey for one of the turnkeys of Newgate to give information to the judge how many times an old offender has been tried, by holding up as many fingers as the number of times the prisoner has been before arraigned at that bar.
COLQUARRON		A man's neck. His colquarron is just about to be twisted; he is just going to be hanged.
COLT		One who lets horses to highwaymen; also a boy newly initiated into roguery; a grand or petty juryman on his first assize.
COMB		To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him.
COME		To come; to lend. Has he come it; has he lent it? To come over any one; to cheat or over reach him. Coming wench; a forward wench, also a breeding woman.
COMMODE		A woman's head dress.
COMMODITY		A woman's commodity; the private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute.
CONTENT		The cull's content; the man is past complaining: a saying of a person murdered for resisting the robbers.
COOLER		A woman.
COOLER		The backside. Kiss my cooler. Kiss my arse. It is principally used to signify a woman's posteriors.
COT, or QUOT		A man who meddles with women's household business, particularly in the kitchen. The punishment commonly inflicted on a quot, is pinning a greasy dishclout to the skirts of his coat.
COURT HOLY WATER, COURT PROMISES		Fair speeches and promises, without performance.
COVE		A man, a fellow, a rogue. The cove was bit; the rogue was outwitted. The cove has bit the cole; the rogue has got the money.
COVENT, or CONVENT GARDEN, vulgarly called COMMON		Anciently, the garden belonging to a dissolved monastery; now famous for being the chief market in London for fruit, flowers, and herbs. The theatres are situated near it. In its environs are many brothels, and not long ago, the lodgings of the second order of ladies of easy virtue were either there, or in the purlieus of Drury Lane.
COW		To sleep like a cow, with a cunt at one's arse; said of a married man; married men being supposed to sleep with their backs towards their wives, according to the following proclamation: All you that in your beds do lie, Turn to your wives, and occupy: And when that you have done your best, Turn arse to arse, and take your rest.
CRAB LOUSE		A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen.
CRACKMANS		Hedges. The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw; the man thought to have escaped by breaking through the hedge, but we brought him back by a great blow on the head, which laid him speechless.
CRACKSMAN		A house-breaker. The kiddy is a clever cracksman; the young fellow is a very expert house-breaker.
CRAW THUMPERS		Roman catholics, so called from their beating their breasts in the confession of their sins. See BRISKET BEATER, and BREAST FLEET.
CREW		A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words: MEN. 1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams. WOMEN. 1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes
CRIMP		A broker or factor, as a coal crimp, who disposes of the cargoes of the Newcastle coal ships; also persons employed to trapan or kidnap recruits for the East Indian and African companies. To crimp, or play crimp; to play foul or booty: also a cruel manner of cutting up fish alive, practised by the London fishmongers, in order to make it eat firm; cod, and other crimped fish, being a favourite dish among voluptuaries and epicures.
CRINKUM CRANKUM		A woman's commodity. See SPECTATOR.
CRISPIN		A shoemaker: from a romance, wherein a prince of that name is said to have exercised the art and mystery of a shoemaker, thence called the gentle craft: or rather from the saints Crispinus and Crispianus, who according to the legend, were brethren born at Rome, from whence they travelled to Soissons in France, about the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion; but, because they would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance, they exercised the trade of shoemakers: the governor of the town discovering them to be Christians, ordered them to be beheaded, about the year 303; from which time they have been the tutelar saints of the shoemakers.
CROOK SHANKS		A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-legged Walk; his legs grew in the night, therefore could not see to grow straight; jeering sayings of men with crooked legs.
CROSS BITE		One who combines with a sharper to draw in a friend; also, to counteract or disappoint. - This is peculiarly used to signify entrapping a man so as to obtain CRIM. COM. money, in which the wife, real or supposed, conspires with the husband.
CROSS DISHONEST		A cross cove; any person who lives by stealing or in a dishonest manner.
CROSS PATCH		A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
CROWN OFFICE		The head. I fired into her keel upwards; my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I fucked a woman with her arse upwards, she was so drunk, that her head lay on the ground.
CRUMMY		Fat, fleshy. A fine crummy dame; a fat woman. He has picked up his crumbs finely of late; he has grown very fat, or rich, of late.
CRUMP		One who helps solicitors to affidavit men, or false witnesses. - 'I wish you had, Mrs. Crump;' a Gloucestershire saying, in answer to a wish for any thing; implying, you must not expect any assistance from the speaker. It is said to have originated from the following incident: One Mrs. Crump, the wife of a substantial farmer, dining with the old Lady Coventry, who was extremely deaf, said to one of the footmen, waiting at table, 'I wish I had a draught of small beer,' her modesty not permitting her to desire so fine a gentleman to bring it: the fellow, conscious that his mistress could not hear either the request or answer, replied, without moving, 'I wish you had, Mrs. Crump.' These wishes being again repeated by both parties, Mrs. Crump got up from the table to fetch it herself; and being asked by my lady where she was going, related what had passed. The story being told abroad, the expression became proverbial.
CUB		An unlicked cub; an unformed, ill-educated young man, a young nobleman or gentleman on his travels: an allusion to the story of the bear, said to bring its cub into form by licking. Also, a new gamester.
CUCKOLD		The husband of an incontinent wife: cuckolds, however, are Christians, as we learn by the following story: An old woman hearing a man call his dog Cuckold, reproved him sharply, saying, 'Sirrah, are not you ashamed to call a dog by a Christian's name ?' To cuckold the parson; to bed with one's wife before she has been churched.
CUFF		An old cuff; an old man. To cuff Jonas; said of one who is knock-kneed, or who beats his sides to keep himself warm in frosty weather; called also Beating the booby.
CUFFIN		A man.
CULL		A man, honest or otherwise. A bob cull; a good- natured, quiet fellow.
CUNNING MAN		A cheat, who pretends by his skill in astrology to assist persons in recovering stolen goods: and also to tell them their fortunes, and when, how often, and to whom they shall be married; likewise answers all lawful questions, both by sea and land. This profession is frequently occupied by ladies.
CUNNY-THUMBED		To double one's fist with the thumb inwards, like a woman.
CUPID, BLIND CUPID		A jeering name for an ugly blind man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted blind. See BLIND CUPID.
CUR		A cut or curtailed dog. According to the forest laws, a man who had no right to the privilege of the chase, was obliged to cut or law his dog: among other modes of disabling him from disturbing the game, one was by depriving him of his tail: a dog so cut was called a cut or curtailed dog, and by contraction a cur. A cur is figuratively used to signify a surly fellow.
CURSE OF SCOTLAND		The nine of diamonds; diamonds, it is said, imply royalty, being ornaments to the imperial crown; and every ninth king of Scotland has been observed for many ages, to be a tyrant and a curse to that country. Others say it is from its similarity to the arms of Argyle; the Duke of Argyle having been very instrumental in bringing about the union, which, by some Scotch patriots, has been considered as detrimental to their country.
CURTAIN LECTURE		A woman who scolds her husband when in bed, is said to read him a curtain lecture.
CUSHION THUMPER, or DUSTER		A parson; many of whom in the fury of their eloquence, heartily belabour their cushions.
DADDY		Father. Old daddy; a familiar address to an old man. To beat daddy mammy; the first rudiments of drum beating, being the elements of the roll.
DAIRY		A woman's breasts, particularly one that gives suck. She sported her dairy; she pulled out her breast.
DANGLE		To follow a woman without asking the question. Also, to be hanged: I shall see you dangle in the sheriff's picture frame; I shall see you hanging on the gallows.
DAPPER FELLOW		A smart, well-made, little man.
DARK CULLY		A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery.
DARKMAN'S BUDGE		One that slides into a house in the dark of the evening, and hides himself, in order to let some of the gang in at night to rob it.
DARKMANS		The night.
DAVID'S SOW		As drunk as David's sow; a common saying, which took its rise from the following circumstance: One David Lloyd, a Welchman, who kept an alehouse at Hereford, had a living sow with six legs, which was greatly resorted to by the curious; he had also a wife much addicted to drunkenness, for which he used sometimes to give her due correction. One day David's wife having taken a cup too much, and being fearful of the consequences, turned out the sow, and lay down to sleep herself sober in the stye. A company coming in to see the sow, David ushered them into the stye, exclaiming, there is a sow for you! did any of you ever see such another? all the while supposing the sow had really been there; to which some of the company, seeing the state the woman was in, replied, it was the drunkenest sow they had ever beheld; whence the woman was ever after called David's sow.
DAY LIGHTS		Eyes. To darken his day lights, or sow up his sees; to close up a man's eyes in boxing.
DEFT FELLOW		A neat little man.
DELLS		Young buxom wenches, ripe and prone to venery, but who have not lost their virginity, which the UPRIGHT MAN claims by virtue of his prerogative; after which they become free for any of the fraternity. Also a common strumpet.
DEMY-REP		An abbreviation of demy-reputation; a woman of doubtful character.
DERRICK		The name of the finisher of the law, or hangman about the year 1608. - 'For he rides his circuit with the Devil, and Derrick must be his host, and Tiburne the inne at which he will lighte.' Vide Bellman of London, in art. PRIGGIN LAW. - 'At the gallows, where I leave them, as to the haven at which they must all cast anchor, if Derrick's cables do but hold.'
DEVIL		A printer's errand-boy. Also a small thread in the king's ropes and cables, whereby they may be distinguished from all others. The Devil himself; a small streak of blue thread in the king's sails. The Devil may dance in his pocket; i.e. he has no money: the cross on our ancient coins being jocularly supposed to prevent him from visiting that place, for fear, as it is said, of breaking his shins against it. To hold a candle to the Devil; to be civil to any one out of fear: in allusion to the story of the old woman, who set a wax taper before the image of St. Michael, and another before the Devil, whom that saint is commonly represented as trampling under his feet: being reproved for paying such honour to Satan, she answered, as it was uncertain which place she should go to, heaven or hell, she chose to secure a friend in both places. That will be when the Devil is blind, and he has not got sore eyes yet; said of any thing unlikely to happen. It rains whilst the sun shines, the Devil is beating his wife with a shoulder of mutton: this phenomenon is also said to denote that cuckolds are going to heaven; on being informed of this, a loving wife cried out with great vehemence, 'Run, husband, run!'The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he.a proverb signifying that we are apt to forget promises made in time of distress. To pull the Devil by the tail, to be reduced to one's shifts. The Devil go with you and sixpence, and then you will have both money and company.
DEWITTED		Torn to pieces by a mob, as that great statesman John de Wit was in Holland, anno 1672.
DICE		The names of false dice: A bale of bard cinque deuces A bale of flat cinque deuces A bale of flat sice aces A bale of bard cater traes A bale of flat cater traes A bale of fulhams A bale of light graniers A bale of langrets contrary to the ventage A bale of gordes, with as many highmen as lowmen, for passage A bale of demies A bale of long dice for even and odd A bale of bristles A bale of direct contraries.
DICKY		A woman's under-petticoat. It's all Dicky with him; i.e. it's all over with him.
DIDDEYS		A woman's breasts or bubbies.
DILDO		From the Italian DILETTO, a woman's delight; or from our word DALLY, a thing to play withal. Penis-succedaneus, called in Lombardy Passo Tempo. Bailey.
DIMBER DAMBER		A top man, or prince, among the canting crew: also the chief rogue of the gang, or the completest cheat.
DING		To knock down. To ding it in one's ears; to reproach or tell one something one is not desirous of hearing. Also to throw away or hide: thus a highwayman who throws away or hides any thing with which he robbed, to prevent being known or detected, is, in the canting lingo, styled a Dinger.
DING DONG		Helter skelter, in a hasty disorderly manner.
DIP		A cook's shop, under Furnival's Inn, where many attornies clerks, and other inferior limbs of the law, take out the wrinkles from their bellies. DIP is also a punning name for a tallow-chandler.
DISHCLOUT		A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place.
DOCK		To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell all the darkmans; the fellow laid with the wench all night. Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis from a venereal complaint. He must go into dock; a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken of must undergo a salivation. Docking is also a punishment inflicted by sailors on the prostitutes who have infected them with the venereal disease; it consists in cutting off all their clothes, petticoats, shift and all, close to their stays, and then turning them into the street.
DODSEY		A woman: perhaps a corruption of Doxey.
DOG		An old dog at it; expert or accustomed to any thing. Dog in a manger; one who would prevent another from enjoying what he himself does not want: an allusion to the well-known fable. The dogs have not dined; a common saying to any one whose shirt hangs out behind. To dog, or dodge; to follow at a distance. To blush like a blue dog, i.e. not at all. To walk the black dog on any one; a punishment inflicted in the night on a fresh prisoner, by his comrades, in case of his refusal to pay the usual footing or garnish.
DOG IN A DOUBLET		A daring, resolute fellow. In Germany and Flanders the boldest dogs used to hunt the boar, having a kind of buff doublet buttoned on their bodies, Rubens has represented several so equipped, so has Sneyders.
DOGGESS, DOG'S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA		Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
DOLL		Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman, like one of the children's dolls at Bartholomew fair. To mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house of correction.
DOMINEER		To reprove or command in an insolent or haughty manner. Don't think as how you shall domineer here.
DOODLE SACK		A bagpipe. Dutch. - Also the private parts of a woman.
DOUBLE JUGG		A man's backside. Cotton's Virgil.
DOWDY		A coarse, vulgar-looking woman.
DRAGOONING IT		A man who occupies two branches of one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the soldier of that denomination, he serves in a double capacity. Such is a physician who furnishes the medicines, and compounds his own prescriptions.
DRAW		To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.
DROPPING MEMBER		A man's yard with a gonorrhoea.
DRUMMER		A jockey term for a horse that throws about his fore legs irregularly: the idea is taken from a kettle drummer, who in beating makes many flourishes with his drumsticks.
DRURY LANE VESTAL		A woman of the town, or prostitute; Drury-lane and its environs were formerly the residence of many of those ladies.
DUCK FUCKER		The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war.
DUCKS AND DRAKES		To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or flattish stones, which being skimmed along the surface of a pond, or still river, rebound many times. To make ducks and drakes of one's money; to throw it idly away.
DUDDERS, or WHISPERING DUDDERS		Cheats who travel the country, pretending to sell smuggled goods: they accost their intended dupes in a whisper. The goods they have for sale are old shop-keepers, or damaged; purchased by them of large manufactories. See DUFFER.
DUGS		A woman's breasts,
DUMB GLUTTON		A woman's privities.
DUMPLIN		A short thick man or woman. Norfolk dumplin; a jeering appellation of a Norfolk man, dumplins being a favourite kind of food in that county.
DUN		An importunate creditor. Dunny, in the provincial dialect of several counties, signifies DEAF; to dun, then, perhaps may mean to deafen with importunate demands: some derive it from the word DONNEZ, which signifies GIVE. But the true original meaning of the word, owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active, and so dexterous in his business, that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay, Why do not you DUN him? that is, Why do not you set Dun to attest him? Hence it became a cant word, and is now as old as since the days of Henry VII. Dun was also the general name for the hangman, before that of Jack Ketch. And presently a halter got, Made of the best strong hempen teer, And ere a cat could lick her ear, Had tied it up with as much art, As DUN himself could do for's heart. Cotton's Virgil Trav. book iv.
DUNGHILL		A coward: a cockpit phrase, all but gamecocks being styled dunghills. To die dunghill; to repent, or shew any signs of contrition at the gallows. Moving dunghill; a dirty, filthy man or woman. Dung, an abbreviation of dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors' wages, therefore deemed by the flints a coward. See FLINTS.
DURHAM MAN		Knocker kneed, he grinds mustard with his knees: Durham is famous for its mustard.
DUSTMAN		A dead man: your father is a dustman.
DUTCHESS		A woman enjoyed with her pattens on, or by a man-in boots, is said to be made a dutchess.
EAT		To eat like a beggar man, and wag his under jaw; a jocular reproach to a proud man. To eat one's words; to retract what one has said.
EIGHT EYES		I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that society, having eight eyes; viz. two seeing eyes, two bub-eyes, a bell-eye, two pope's eyes, and a cock-eye. He has fallen down and trod upon his eye; said of one who has a black eye.
ELF		A fairy or hobgoblin, a little man or woman.
ENSIGN BEARER		A drunken man, who looks red in the face, or hoists his colours in his drink.
EQUIPT		Rich; also, having new clothes. Well equipt; full of money, or well dressed. The cull equipped me with a brace of meggs; the gentleman furnished me with. a couple of guineas.
EWE		A white ewe; a beautiful woman. An old ewe, drest lamb fashion; an old woman, drest like a young girl.
FAGGOT		A man hired at a muster to appear as a soldier. To faggot in the canting sense, means to bind: an allusion to the faggots made up by the woodmen, which are all bound. Faggot the culls; bind the men.
FAMILY MAN		A thief or receiver of stolen goods.
FANCY MAN		A man kept by a lady for secret services.
FART CATCHER		A valet or footman from his walking behind his master or mistress.
FELLOW COMMONER		An empty bottle: so called at the university of Cambridge, where fellow commoners are not in general considered as over full of learning. At Oxford an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner for the same reason. They pay at Cambridge 250 l. a year for the privilege of wearing a gold or silver tassel to their caps. The younger branches of the nobility have the privilege of wearing a hat, and from thence are denominated HAT FELLOW COMMONERS.
FERRET		A tradesman who sells goods to youug unthrift heirs, at excessive rates, and then continually duns them for the debt. To ferret; to search out or expel any one from his hiding-place, as a ferret drives out rabbits; also to cheat. Ferret-eyed; red-eyed: ferrets have red eyes.
FIERI FACIAS		A red-faced man is said to have been served with a writ of fieri facias.
FILCH, or FILEL		A beggar's staff, with an iron hook at the end, to pluck clothes from an hedge, or any thing out of a casement. Filcher; the same as angler. Filching cove; a man thief. Filching mort; a woman thief.
FIN		An arm. A one finned fellow; a man who has lost an arm. SEA PHRASE.
FINE		A man imprisoned for any offence. A fine of eighty- four months; a transportation for seven years.
FINGER IN EYE		To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly applied to women. The more you cry the less you'll p-ss; a consolatory speech used by sailors to their doxies. It is as great a pity to see a woman cry, as to see a goose walk barefoot; another of the same kind.
FIRING A GUN		Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the company, Hark! did you not hear a gun? - but now we are talking of a gun, I will tell you the story of one.
FISH		A seaman. A scaly fish; a rough, blunt tar. To have other fish to fry; to have other matters to mind, something else to do.
FLAG		A groat. - The flag of defiance, or bloody flag is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alluding to the redness of his face. SEA PHRASE.
FLASH		Knowing. Understanding another's meaning. The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle. The gentleman saw what I was about, and therefore I could not pick his pocket of his silk handkerchief. To patter flash, to speak the slang language. See PATTER.
FLASH MAN		A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.
FLICKERING		Grinning or laughing in a man's face.
FLICKING		Cutting. Flick me some panam and caffan; cut me some bread and cheese. Flick the peter; cut off the cloak-bag, or portmanteau.
FLOURISH		To take a flourish; to enjoy a woman in a hasty manner, to take a flyer. See FLYER.
FLY		Knowing. Acquainted with another's meaning or proceeding. The rattling cove is fly; the coachman knows what we are about.
FLY-BY-NIGHT		You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch, and alluding to the nocturnal excursions attributed to witches, who were supposed to fly abroad to their meetings, mounted on brooms.
FLYER		To take a flyer; to enjoy a woman with her clothes on, or without going to bed.
FLYING PORTERS		Cheats who obtain money by pretending to persons who have been lately robbed, that they may come from a place or party where, and from whom, they may receive information respecting the goods stolen from them, and demand payment as porters.
FOOLISH		An expression among impures, signifying the cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man. Is he foolish or flash?
FOOTMAN'S MAWND		An artificial sore made with unslaked lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, on the back of a beggar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horse.
FOREMAN OF THE JURY		One who engrosses all the talk to himself, or speaks for the rest of the company.
FORK		A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket. - 'The newest and most dexterous way, which is, to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick, into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.' N.B. This was taken from a book written many years ago: doubtless the art of picking pockets, like all others, must have been much improved since that time.
FORTUNE HUNTERS		Indigent men, seeking to enrich themselves by marrying a woman of fortune.
FORTUNE TELLER, or CUNNING MAN		A judge, who tells every prisoner his fortune, lot or doom. To go before the fortune teller, lambskin men, or conjuror; to be tried at an assize. See LAMBSKIN MEN.
FOUL		To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him.
FREEMAN'S QUAY		Free of expence. To lush at Freeman's Quay; to drink at another's cost.
FRESHMAN		One just entered a member of the university.
FROE, or VROE		A woman, wife, or mistress. Brush to your froe, or bloss, and wheedle for crop; run to your mistress, and sooth and coax her out of some money. DUTCH.
FROGLANDER		A Dutchman.
FRUITFUL VINE		A woman's private parts, i.e. that has FLOWERS every month, and bears fruit in nine months.
FUMBLER		An old or impotent man. To fumble, also means to go awkwardly about any work, or manual operation.
FUSSOCK		A lazy fat woman. An old fussock; a frowsy old woman.
FUSTY LUGGS		A beastly, sluttish woman.
GAFF		A fair. The drop coves maced the joskins at the gaff; the ring-droppers cheated the countryman at the fair.
GALL		His gall is not yet broken; a saying used in prisons of a man just brought in, who appears dejected.
GALLEY		Building the galley; a game formerly used at sea, in order to put a trick upon a landsman, or fresh- water sailor. It being agreed to play at that game, one sailor personates the builder, and another the merchant or contractor: the builder first begins by laying the keel, which consists of a number of men laid all along on their backs, one after another, that is, head to foot; he next puts in the ribs or knees, by making a number of men sit feet to feet, at right angles to, and on each side of, the keel: he now fixing on the person intended to be the object of the joke, observes he is a fierce-looking fellow, and fit for the lion; he accordingly places him at the head, his arms being held or locked in by the two persons next to him, representing the ribs. After several other dispositions, the builder delivers over the galley to the contractor as complete: but he, among other faults and objections, observes the lion is not gilt, on which the builder or one of his assistants, runs to the head, and dipping a mop in the excrement, thrusts it into the face of the lion.
GALLOPER		A blood horse. A hunter. The toby gill clapped his bleeders to his galloper and tipped the straps the double. The highwayman spurred his horse and got away from the officers.
GANDER MONTH		That month in which a man's wife-lies in: wherefore, during that time, husbands plead a sort of indulgence in matters of gallantry.
GARNISH		An entrance fee demanded by the old prisoners of one just committed to gaol.
GARRET ELECTION		A ludicrous ceremony, practised every new parliament: it consists of a mock election of two members to represent the borough of Garret (a few straggling cottages near Wandsworth in Surry); the qualification of a voter is, having enjoyed a woman in the open air within that district: the candidates are commonly fellows of low humour, who dress themselves up in a ridiculous manner. As this brings a prodigious concourse of people to Wandsworth, the publicans of that place jointly contribute to the expence, which is sometimes considerable.
GAWKEY		A tall, thin, awkward young man or woman.
GELT		Money, GERMAN. - Also, castrated.
GENTLEMAN COMMONER		An empty bottle; an university joke, gentlemen commoners not being deemed over full of learning.
GENTLEMAN OF THREE INS		In debt, in gaol, and in danger of remaining there for life: or, in gaol, indicted, and in danger of being hanged in chains.
GENTLEMAN OF THREE OUTS		That is, without money, without wit, and without manners: some add another out, i.e. without credit.
GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION		A louse.
GENTLEMAN'S MASTER		A highway robber, because he makes a gentleman obey his commands, i.e. stand and deliver.
GENTRY COVE		A gentleman.
GENTRY COVE KEN		A gentleman's house.
GENTRY MORT		A gentlewoman.
GERMAN DUCK		Haifa sheep's head boiled with onions.
GIBLETS		To join giblets; said of a man and woman who cohabit as husband and wife, without being married; also to copulate.
GIFTS		Small white specks under the finger nails, said to portend gifts or presents. A stingy man is said to be as full of gifts as a brazen horse of his farts.
GIGG		A nose. Snitchel his gigg; fillip his nose. Grunter's gigg; a hog's snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise, and a woman's privities. To gigg a Smithfield hank; to hamstring an over-drove ox, vulgarly called a mad bullock.
GILFLURT		A proud minks, a vain capricious woman,
GILL		The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively used for woman. Every jack has his gill; i.e. every jack has his gillian, or female mate.
GILT, or RUM DUBBER		A thief who picks locks, so called from the gilt or picklock key: many of them are so expert, that, from the lock of a church door to that of the smallest cabinet, they will find means to open it; these go into reputable public houses, where, pretending business, they contrive to get into private rooms, up stairs, where they open any bureaus or trunks they happen to find there.
GIMBLET-EYED		Squinting, either in man or woman.
GINGAMBOBS		Toys, bawbles; also a man's privities. See THINGAMBOBS.
GLAZIER		One who breaks windows and shew-glasses, to steal goods exposed for sale. Glaziers; eyes. - Is your father a glazier; a question asked of a lad or young man, who stands between the speaker and the candle, or fire. If it is answered in the negative, the rejoinder is - I wish he was, that he might make a window through your body, to enable us to see the fire or light.
GLOVES		To give any one a pair of gloves; to make them a present or bribe. To win a pair of gloves; to kiss a man whilst he sleeps: for this a pair of gloves is due to any lady who will thus earn them.
GLUTTON		A term used by bruisers to signify a man who will bear a great deal of beating.
GO BY THE GROUND		A little short person, man or woman.
GOLD FINDER		One whose employment is to empty necessary houses; called also a tom-turd-man, and night-man: the latter, from that business being always performed in the night.
GOOD MAN		A word of various imports, according to the place where it is spoken: in the city it means a rich man; at Hockley in the Hole, or St. Giles's, an expert boxer; at a bagnio in Covent Garden, a vigorous fornicator; at an alehouse or tavern, one who loves his pot or bottle; and sometimes, though but rarely, a virtuous man
GOOD WOMAN		A nondescript, represented on a famous sign in St. Giles's, in the form of a common woman. but without a head.
GOOSECAP		A silly fellow or woman.
GORGER		A gentleman. A well dressed man. Mung kiddey. Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman.
GORMAGON		A monster with six eyes, three mouths, four arms, eight legs, five live on one side and three on the other, three arses, two arses, and a cunt upon its back; a man on horseback, with a woman behind him.
GOUGE		To squeeze out a man's eye with the thumb: a cruel practice used by the Bostonians in America.
GRAB		To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burglary.
GREASE		To bribe. To grease a man in the fist; to bribe him. To grease a fat sow in the arse; to give to a rich man. Greasy chin; a treat given to parish officers in part of commutation for a bastard: called also, Eating a child.
GREEN		Young, inexperienced, unacquainted; ignorant. How green the cull was not to stag how the old file planted the books. How ignorant the booby was not to perceive how the old sharper placed the cards in such a manner as to insure the game.
GREENHEAD		An inexperienced young man.
GREY BEARD		Earthen jugs formerly used in public house for drawing ale: they had the figure of a man with a large beard stamped on them; whence probably they took the name: see BEN JONSON'S PLAYS, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, etc. etc. Dutch earthen jugs, used for smuggling gin on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk, are at this time called grey beards.
GREY MARE		The grey mare is the better horse; said of a woman who governs her husband.
GRIN		To grin in a glass case; to be anatomized for murder: the skeletons of many criminals are preserved in glass cases, at Surgeons' hall.
GRIND		To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
GRUB STREET		A street near Moorfields, formerly the supposed habitation of many persons who wrote for the booksellers: hence a Grub-street writer means a hackney author, who manufactures booss for the booksellers.
GUNPOWDER		An old Woman.
GUTS AND GARBAGE		A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels: said of a hard, merciless, unfeeling person.
HAIR SPLITTER		A man's yard.
HAND BASKET PORTION		A woman whose husband receives frequent presents from her father, or family, is said to have a hand-basket portion.
HANDSOME		He is a handsome-bodied man in the face; a jeering commendation of an ugly fellow. Handsome is that handsome does: a proverb frequently cited by ugly women.
HANGMAN'S WAGES		Thirteen pence halfpenny; which, according to the vulgar tradition, was thus allotted: one shilling for the executioner, and three halfpence for the rope, - N. B. This refers to former times; the hangmen of the present day having, like other artificers, raised their prices. The true state of this matter is, that a Scottish mark was the fee allowed for an execution, and the value of that piece was settled by a proclamation of James I. at thirteen pence halfpenny.
HARMAN		A constable.
HARMAN BECK		A beadle.
HARMANS		The stocks.
HARP		To harp upon; to dwell upon a subject. Have among you, my blind harpers; an expression used in throwing or shooting at random among the crowd. Harp is also the Irish expression for woman, or tail, used in tossing up in Ireland: from Hibernia, being represented with a harp on the reverse of the copper coins of that country; for which it is, in hoisting the copper, i.e. tossing up, sometimes likewise called music.
HARRIDAN		A hagged old woman; a miserable, scraggy, worn-out harlot, fit to take her bawd's degree: derived from the French word HARIDELLE, a worn-out jade of a horse or mare.
HAT		Old hat; a woman's privities: because frequently felt.
HEAD CULLY OF THE PASS, or PASSAGE BANK		The top tilter of that gang throughout the whole army, who demands and receives contribution from all the pass banks in the camp.
HEATHEN PHILOSOPHER		One whose breech may be seen through his pocket-hole: this saying arose from the old philosophers, many of whom depised the vanity of dress to such a point, as often to fall into the opposite extreme.
HELL CAT		A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman. See TERMAGANT and VIXEN.
HEMPEN FEVER		A man who was hanged is said to have died of a hempen fever; and, in Dorsetshire, to have been stabbed with a Bridport dagger; Bridport being a place famous for manufacturing hemp into cords.
HEN		A woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women.
HEN HOUSE		A house where the woman rules; called also a SHE HOUSE, and HEN FRIGATE: the latter a sea phrase, originally applied to a ship, the captain of which had his wife on board, supposed to command him.
HICKENBOTHOM		Mr. Hickenbothom; a ludicrous name for an unknown person, similar to that of Mr. Thingambob. Hickenbothom, i.e. a corruption of the German word ickenbaum, i.e. oak tree.
HIGH PAD		A highwayman.
HIGHGATE		Sworn at Highgate - a ridiculous custom formerly prevailed at the public-houses in Highgate, to administer a ludicrous oath to all travellers of the middling rank who stopped there. The party was sworn on a pair of horns, fastened on a stick: the substance of the oath was, never to kiss the maid when he could kiss the mistress, never to drink small beer when he could get strong, with many other injunctions of the like kind; to all which was added the saving cause of "unless you like it best." The person administering the oath was always to be called father by the juror; and he, in return, was to style him son, under the penalty of a bottle.
HOBBERDEHOY		Half a man and half a boy, a lad between both.
HOBBY HORSE		A man's favourite amusement, or study, is called his hobby horse. It also means a particular kind of small Irish horse: and also a wooden one, such as is given to children.
HOBBY HORSICAL		A man who is a great keeper or rider of hobby horses; one that is apt to be strongly attached to his systems of amusement.
HOBSON'S CHOICE		That or none; from old Hobson, a famous carrier of Cambridge, who used to let horses to the students; but never permitted them to chuse, always allotting each man the horse he thought properest for his manner of riding and treatment.
HOCKS		vulgar appellation for the feet. You have left the marks of your dirty hocks on my clean stairs; a frequent complaint from a mop squeezer to a footman.
HODMANDODS		Snails in their shells.
HOG		A shilling. To drive one's hogs; to snore: the noise made by some persons in snoring, being not much unlike the notes of that animal. He has brought his hogs to a fine market; a saying of any one who has been remarkably successful in his affairs, and is spoken ironically to signify the contrary. A hog in armour; an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed, is said to look like a hog in armour. To hog a horse's mane; to cut it short, so that the ends of the hair stick up like hog's bristles. Jonian hogs; an appellation given to the members of St. John's College, Cambridge.
HOGGISH		Rude, unmannerly, filthy.
HOISTING		A ludicrous ceremony formerly performed on every soldier, the first time he appeared in the field after being married; it was thus managed: As soon as the regiment, or company, had grounded their arms to rest a while, three or four men of the same company to which the bridegroom belonged, seized upon him, and putting a couple of bayonets out of the two corners of his hat, to represent horns, it was placed on his head, the back part foremost. He was then hoisted on the shoulders of two strong fellows, and carried round the arms, a drum and fife beating and playing the pioneers call, named Round Heads and Cuckolds, but on this occasion styled the Cuckold's March; in passing the colours, he was to take off his hat: this, in some regiments, was practised by the officers on their brethren, Hoisting, among pickpockets, is, setting a man on his head, that his money, watch, etc. may fall out of his pockets; these they pick up, and hold to be no robbery. See REVERSED.
HOLIDAY		A holiday bowler; a bad bowler. Blind man's holiday; darkness, night. A holiday is any part of a ship's bottom, left uncovered in paying it. SEA TERM. It is all holiday; See ALL HOLIDAY.
HOLY WATER		He loves him as the Devil loves holy water, i.e. hates him mortally. Holy water, according to the Roman Catholics, having the virtue to chase away the Devil and his imps.
HONEST MAN		A term frequently used by superiors to inferiors. As honest a man as any in the cards when all the kings are out; i.e. a knave. I dare not call thee rogue for fear of the law, said a quaker to an attorney; but I wil give thee five pounds, if thou canst find any creditable person who wilt say thou art an honest man.
HONEST WOMAN		To marry a woman with whom one has cohabitated as a mistress, is termed, making an honest woman of her.
HOOK AND SNIVEY, WITH NIX THE BUFFER		This rig consists in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and is carried on thus: Three men, one of who pretends to be sick and unable to eat, go to a public house: the two well men make a bargain with the landlord for their dinner, and when he is out of sight, feed their pretended sick companion and dog gratis.
HOP-O-MY-THUMB		A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a-hop-o-my thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shoulder, might pick a pea out of her arse.
HOPKINS		Mr. Hopkins; a ludicrous address to a lame or limping man, being a pun on the word hop.
HOPPING GILES		A jeering appellation given to any person who limps, or is lame; St. Giles was the patron of cripples, lepers, etc. Churches dedicated to that saint commonly stand out of town, many of them having been chapels to hospitals. See GYLES.
HORSE GODMOTHER		A large masculine woman, a gentlemanlike kind of a lady.
HOUSE, or TENEMENT, TO LET		A widow's weeds; also an atchievement marking the death of a husband, set up on the outside of a mansion: both supposed to indicate that the dolorous widow wants a male comforter.
HUBBLE-BUBBLE		Confusion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle. Also an instrument used for smoaking through water in the East Indies, called likewise a caloon, and hooker.
HUMBUGS		The brethren of the venerable society of humbugs was held at brother Hallam's, in Goodman's Fields.
HUMPTY DUMPTY		A little humpty dumpty man or woman; a short clumsy person of either sex: also ale boiled with brandy.
HUNT'S DOG		He is like Hunt's dog, will neither go to church nor stay at home. One Hunt, a labouring man at a small town in Shropshire, kept a mastiff, who on being shut up on Sundays, whilst his master went to church, howled so terribly as to disturb the whole village; wherefore his master resolved to take him to church with him: but when he came to the church door, the dog having perhaps formerly been whipped out by the sexton, refused to enter; whereupon Hunt exclaimed loudly against his dog's obstinacy, who would neither go to church nor stay at home. This shortly became a bye-word for discontented and whimsical persons.
HUNTING THE SQUIRREL		An amusement practised by postboys and stage-coachmen, which consists in following a one-horse chaise, anddriving it before them, passing close to it, so as to brush the wheel, and by other means terrifying any woman or person that may be in it. A man whose turn comes for him to drink, before he has emptied his former glass, is said to be hunted.
HYP, or HIP		A mode of calling to one passing by. Hip, Michael, your head's on fire; a piece of vulgar wit to a red haired man.
INDORSER		A sodomite. To indorse with a cudgel; to drub or beat a man over the back with a stick, to lay CANE upon Abel.
INNOCENTS		One of the innocents; a weak or simple person, man or woman.
IRISH APRICOTS		Potatoes. It is a common joke against the Irish vessels, to say they are loaded with fruit and timber, that is, potatoes and broomsticks. Irish assurance; a bold forward behaviour: as being dipt in the river Styx was formerly supposed to render persons invulnerable, so it is said that a dipping in the river Shannon totally annihilates bashfulness; whence arises the saying of an impudent Irishman, that he has been dipt in the Shannon.
IRISH BEAUTY		A woman with two black eyes.
IRON		Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison windows, or, as the Irishman expresses them, the iron glass windows. Iron doublet; a prison. See STONE DOUBLET.
IVORIES		Teeth. How the swell flashed his ivories; how the gentleman shewed his teeth.
IVY BUSH		Like an owl in an ivy bush; a simile for a meagre or weasel-faced man, with a large wig, or very bushy hair.
JACK KETCH		The hangman; vide DERRICK and KETCH.
JACK OF LEGS		A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfordshire, where there are two stones fourteen feet distant, said to be the head and feet stones of his grave. This giant, says Salmon, as fame goes, lived in a wood here, and was a great robber, but a generous one; for he plundered the rich to feed the poor: he frequently took bread for this purpose from the Baldock bakers, who catching him at an advantage, put out his eyes, and afterwards hanged him upon a knoll in Baldock field.
JACK ROBINSON		Before one could say Jack Robinson; a saying to express a very short time, originating from a very volatile gentleman of that appellation, who would call on his neighbours, and be gone before his name could be announced.
JACK WEIGHT		A fat man.
JAPANNED		Ordained. To be japanned; to enter into holy orders, to become a clergyman, to put on the black cloth: from the colour of the japan ware, which is black.
JARVIS		A hackney coachman.
JERRY SNEAK		A henpecked husband: from a celebrated character in one of Mr. Foote's plays, representing a man governed by his wife.
JEW		A tradesman who has no faith, i.e. will not give credit.
JILT		A tricking woman, who encourages the addresses of a man whom she means to deceive and abandon.
JILTED		Rejected by a woman who has encouraged one's advances.
JOCK, or CROWDY-HEADED JOCK		A jeering appellation for a north country seaman, particularly a collier; Jock being a common name, and crowdy the chief food, of the lower order of the people in Northumberland.
JOCK, or JOCKUM CLOY		To enjoy a woman.
JOSEPH		A woman's great coat. Also, a sheepish bashful young fellow: an allusion to Joseph who fled from Potiphar's wife. You are Josephus rex; you are jo-king, ie: joking.
JOSKIN		A countryman. The dropcove maced the Joskin of twenty quid; The ring dropper cheated the countryman of twenty guineas.
KEMP'S SHOES		Would I had Kemp's shoes to throw after you. BEN JONSON. Perhaps Kemp was a man remarkable for his good luck or fortune; throwing an old shoe, or shoes, after any one going on an important business, being by the vulgar deemed lucky.
KEN		A house. A bob ken, or a bowman ken; a well-furnished house, also a house that harbours thieves. Biting the ken; robbing the house.
KETCH		Jack Ketch; a general name for the finishers of the law, or hangmen, ever since the year 1682, when the office was filled by a famous practitioner of that name, of whom his wife said, that any bungler might put a man to death, but only her husband knew how to make a gentleman die sweetly.
KETTLEDRUMS		Cupid's kettle drums; a woman's breasts, called by sailors chest and bedding.
KIDNEY		Disposition, principles, humour. Of a strange kidney; of an odd or unaccountable humour. A man of a different kidney; a man of different principles.
KINCHIN		A little child. Kinchin coes; orphan beggar boys, educated in thieving. Kinchin morts; young girls under the like circumstances and training. Kinchin morts, or coes in slates; beggars' children carried at their mother's backs in sheets. Kinchin cove; a little man.
KING JOHN'S MEN		He is one of king John's men, eight score to the hundred: a saying of a little undersized man.
KING OF THE GYPSIES		The captain, chief, or ringleader of the gang of misrule: in the cant language called also the upright man.
KNIGHT AND BARROW PIG		More hog than gentleman. A saying of any low pretender to precedency.
KNIGHT OF THE RAINBOW		A footman: from the variety of colours in the liveries and trimming of gentlemen of that cloth.
KNIGHT OF THE ROAD		A highwayman.
KNIGHT OF THE WHIP		A coachman.
KNOCK		To knock a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. To knock off; to conclude: phrase borrowed from the blacksmith. To knock under; to submit.
LADY		A crooked or hump-backed woman.
LADY OF EASY VIRTUE		A woman of the town, an impure, a prostitute.
LAG		A man transported. The cove was lagged for a drag. The man was transported for stealing something out of a waggon.
LAMP		An eye. The cove has a queer lamp. The man has a blind or squinting eye.
LAND		How lies the land? How stands the reckoning? Who has any land in Appleby? a question asked the man at whose door the glass stands long, or who does not ciculate it in due time.
LANK SLEEVE		The empty sleeve of a one armed man. A fellow with a lank sleeve; a man who has lost an arm.
LANSPRISADO		One who has only two-pence in his pocket. Also a lance, or deputy corporal; that is, one doing the duty without the pay of a corporal. Formerly a lancier, or horseman, who being dismounted by the death of his horse, served in the foot, by the title of lansprisado, or lancepesato, a broken lance.
LAUNCH		The delivery, or labour, of a pregnant woman; a crying out or groaning.
LAYSTALL		A dunghill about London, on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied; or, in more technical terms, where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom t - d man, is stored.
LAZY		As lazy as Ludman's dog, who leaned against the wall to bark. As lazy as the tinker, who laid down his budget to f - t.
LAZY MAN'S LOAD		Lazy people frequently take up more than they can safely carry, to save the trouble of coming a second time.
LEFT-HANDED WIFE		A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his concubine, or a woman greatly his inferior, he gave her his left hand.
LEG		To make a leg; to bow. To give leg-bail and land security; to run away. To fight at the leg; to take unfair advantages: it being held unfair by back-sword players to strike at the leg. To break a leg; a woman who has had a bastard, is said to have broken a leg.
LIGHT HOUSE		A man with a red fiery nose.
LIGHTMANS		The day.
LILIPUTIAN		A diminutive man or woman: from Gulliver's Travels, written by Dean Swift, where an imaginary kingdom of dwarfs of that name is described.
LINE		To get a man into a line, i.e. to divert his attention by a ridiculous or absurd story. To humbug.
LIQUOR		To liquor one's boots; to drink before a journey: among Roman Catholics, to administer the extreme unction.
LITTLE CLERGYMAN		A young chimney-sweeper.
LITTLE SNAKESMAN		A little boy who gets into a house through the sink-hole, and then opens the door for his accomplices: he is so called, from writhing and twisting like a snake, in order to work himself through the narrow passage.
LOB		A till in a tradesman's shop. To frisk a lob; to rob a till. See FLASH PANNEY.
LOBLOLLEY BOY		A nick name for the surgeon's servant on board a man of war, sometimes for the surgeon himself: from the water gruel prescribed to the sick, which is called loblolley.
LOBSTER		A nick name for a soldier, from the colour of his clothes. To boil one's lobster, for a churchman to become a soldier: lobsters, which are of a bluish black, being made red by boiling. I will not make a lobster kettle of my cunt, a reply frequently made by the nymphs of the Point at Portsmouth, when requested by a soldier to grant him a favour.
LONG MEG		A jeering name for a very tall woman: from one famous in story, called Long Meg of Westminster.
LORD		A crooked or hump-backed man. These unhappy people afford great scope for vulgar raillery; such as, 'Did you come straight from home? if so, you have got confoundedly bent by the way.'
LOUSE		A gentleman's companion. He will never louse a grey head of his own; he will never live to be old.
LOW TIDE, or LOW WATER		When there is no money in a man's pocket.
LUMPING		Great. A lumping penny worth; a great quantity for the money, a bargain. He has'got a lumping penny-worth; frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman.
MACCARONI		An Italian paste made of flour and eggs. Also a fop: which name arose from a club, called the Maccaroni Club, instituted by some of the most dressy travelled gentlemen about town, who led the fashions; whence a man foppishly dressed, was supposed a member of that club, and by contraction styled a Maccaroni.
MAD TOM, or TOM OF BEDLAM		An Abram Man. A rogue that counterfeits madness.
MADGE		The private parts of a woman.
MAKE WEIGHT		A small candle: a term applied to a little slender man.
MALKIN, or MAULKIN		A general name for a cat; also a parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds; likewise an awkward woman. The cove's so scaly, he'd spice a malkin of his jazey: the fellow is so mean, that he would rob a scare-crow of his old wig.
MAN		Any undergraduate from fifteen to thirty. As a man of Emanuel - a young member of Emanuel.
MAN OF THE TOWN		A rake, a debauchee.
MAN OF THE TURF		A horse racer, or jockey.
MAN OF THE WORLD		A knowing man.
MAN OF THE WORLD		A knowing man.
MAN TRAP		A woman's commodity.
MANOEUVRING THE APOSTLES		Robbing Peter to pay Paul, i.e. borrowing of one man to pay another.
MANUFACTURE		Liquors prepared from materials of English growth.
MELT		To spend. Will you melt a borde? will you spend a shilling? The cull melted a couple of decusses upon us; the gentleman spent a couple of crowns upon us.
MELTING MOMENTS		A fat man and woman in the amorous congress.
MERRY ANDREW, or MR		MERRYMAN. The jack pudding, jester, or zany of a mountebank, usually dressed in a party-coloured coat.
MIDSHIPMAN'S WATCH AND CHAIN		A sheep's heart and pluck.
MINIKIN		A little man or woman: also the smallest sort of pin.
MISCHIEF		A man loaded with mischief, i.e. a man with his wife on his back.
MOHAIR		A man in the civil line, a townsman, or tradesman: a military term, from the mohair buttons worn by persons of those descriptions, or any others not in the army, the buttons of military men being always of metal: this is generally used as a term of contempt, meaning a bourgeois, tradesman, or mechanic.
MONKEY		To suck the monkey; to suck or draw wine, or any other liquor, privately out of a cask, by means of a straw, or small tube. Monkey's allowance; more kicks than halfpence. Who put that monkey on horseback without tying his legs? vulgar wit on a bad horseman.
MONOSYLLABLE		A woman's commodity.
MOPSEY		A dowdy, or homely woman.
MORT		A woman or wench; also a yeoman's daughter. To be taken all-a mort; to be confounded, surprised, or motionless through fear.
MOSES		To stand Moses: a man is said to stand Moses when he has another man's bastard child fathered upon him, and he is obliged by the parish to maintain it.
MUFF		The private parts of a woman. To the well wearing of your muff, mort; to the happy consummation of your marriage, girl; a health.
MUMBLE A SPARROW		A cruel sport practised at wakes and fairs, in the following manner: A cock sparrow whose wings are clipped, is put into the crown of a hat; a man having his arms tied behind him, attempts to bite off the sparrow's head, but is generally obliged to desist, by the many pecks and pinches he receives from the enraged bird.
MUNS		The face, or rather the mouth: from the German word MUND, the mouth. Toute his muns; look at his face.
MUNSTER HEIFER		An Irish woman. A woman with thick legs is said to be like a Munster heifer; i.e. beef to the heels.
MUTTON		In her mutton, i.e. having carnal knowledge of a woman.
MUTTON MONGER		A man addicted to wenching.
NAVY OFFICE		The Fleet prison. Commander of the Fleet; the warden of the Fleet prison.
NEB, or NIB		The bill of a bird, and the slit of a pen. Figuratively, the face and mouth of a woman; as, She holds up her neb: she holds up her mouth to be kissed.
NECK VERSE		Formerly the persons claiming the benefit of clergy were obliged to read a verse in a Latin manuscript psalter: this saving them from the gallows, was termed their neck verse: it was the first verse of the fiftyfirst psalm, Miserere mei,etc.
NEGLIGEE		A woman's undressed gown, Vulgarly termed a neggledigee.
NEGROE		A black-a-moor: figuratively used for a slave. I'll be no man's negro; I will be no man's slave.
NEWMAN'S HOTEL		Newgate.
NEWMAN'S LIFT		The gallows.
NEWMAN'S TEA GARDENS		Newgate.
NIGGLING		Cutting awkwardly, trifling; also accompanying with a woman.
NIGHTMAN		One whose business it is to empty necessary houses in London, which is always done in the night; the operation is called a wedding. See WEDDING.
NIM		To steal or pilfer: from the German nemen, to take. Nim a togeman; steal a cloak.
NOB		A king. A man of rank.
NODDY		A simpleton or fool. Also a kind of low cart, with a seat before it for the driver, used in and about Dublin, in the manner of a hackney coach: the fare is just half that of a coach, for the same distance; so that for sixpence one may have a set down, as it is called, of a mile and half, and frequently a tumble down into the bargain: it is called a noddy from the nutation of its head. Knave noddy; the old-fashioned name for the knave of trumps.
NORFOLK DUMPLING		A nick name, or term of jocular reproach to a Norfolk man; dumplings being a favourite food in that county.
NOSE		A man who informs or turns king's evidence.
NOSE BAG		A bag fastened to the horse's head, in which the soldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their horses: whence the saying, I see the hose bag in his face; i.e. he has been a private man, or rode private.
NOTCH		The private parts of awoman.
NOZZLE		The nose of a man or woman.
NUBBING		Hanging. Nubbing cheat: the gallows. Nubbing cove; the hangman. Nubbing ken; the sessions house.
NUTS		Fond; pleased. She's nuts upon her cull; she's pleased with her cully. The cove's nutting the blowen; the man is trying to please the girl.
NYPPER		A cut-purse: so called by one Wotton, who in the year 1585 kept an academy for the education and perfection of pickpockets and cut-purses: his school was near Billingsgate, London. As in the dress of ancient times many people wore their purses at their girdles, cutting them was a branch of the light-fingered art, which is now lost, though the name remains.
OAK		A rich man, a man of good substance and credit. To sport oak; to shut the outward door of a student's room at college. An oaken towel; an oaken cudgel. To rub a man down with an oaken towel; to beat him.
OBSTROPULOUS		Vulgar misnomer of OBSTREPEROUS: as, I was going my rounds, and found this here gemman very obstropulous, whereof I comprehended him as an auspicious parson.
OCCUPY		To occupy a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her.
ODDS PLUT AND HER NAILS		A Welch oath, frequently mentioned in a jocular manner by persons, it is hoped, ignorant of its meaning; which is, By God's blood, and the nails with which he was nailed to the cross.
OLD STAGER		One accustomed to business, one who knows mankind.
ONE OF US, or ONE OF MY COUSINS		A woman of the town, a harlot.
ORTHODOXY AND HETERODOXY		Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second a person who made use of the doxy of another man.
OUTRUN THE CONSTABLE		A man who has lived above his means, or income, is said to have outrun the constable.
OUTS		A gentleman of three outs. See GENTLEMAN.
OVEN		A great mouth; the old woman would never have looked for her daughter in the oven, had she not been there herself.
OVERSEER		A man standing in the pillory, is, from his elevated situation, said to be made an overseer.
OWL IN AN IVY BUSH		He looks like an owl in an ivy bush; frequently said of a person with a large frizzled wig, or a woman whose hair is dressed a-la-blowze.
OYSTER		A gob of thick phlegm, spit by a consumptive man.
PADDY		The general name for an Irishman: being the abbreviation of Patrick, the name of the tutelar saint of that island.
PANNIER MAN		A servant belonging to the Temple and Gray's Inn, whose office is to announce the dinner. This in the Temple, is done by blowing a horn; and in Gray's Inn proclaiming the word Manger, Manger, Manger, in each of the three courts.
PANTER		A hart: that animal is, in the Psalms, said to pant after the fresh water-brooks. Also the human heart, which frequently pants in time of danger.
PARENTHESIS		To put a man's nose into a parenthesis: to pull it, the fingers and thumb answering the hooks or crochets. A wooden parenthesis; the pillory. An iron parenthesis; a prison.
PARISH SOLDIER		A jeering name for a militiaman: from substitutes being frequently hired by the parish from which one of its inhabitants is drawn.
PARSON'S JOURNEYMAN		A curate.
PAY		To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, and no pitch hot or ready. SEA TERM. - Also to beat: as, I will pay you as Paul paid the Ephesians, over the face and eyes, and all your d - -d jaws. To pay away; to fight manfully, also to eat voraciously. To pay through the nose: to pay an extravagant price.
PEAL		To ring a peal in a man's ears; to scold at him: his wife rang him such a peal!
PEEPERS		Eyes. Single peeper, a one-eyed man.
PEGO		The penis of man or beast.
PERSUADERS		Spurs. The kiddey clapped his persuaders to his prad but the traps boned him; the highwayman spurred his horse hard, but the officers seized him.
PETER		A portmanteau or cloke-bag. Biter of peters; one that makes it a trade to steal boxes and trunks from behind stage coaches or out of waggons. To rob Peter to pay Paul; to borrow of one man to pay another: styled also manoeuvring the apostles.
PETER LAY		The department of stealing portmanteaus, trunks, etc.
PETTICOAT PENSIONER		One kept by a woman forsecret services.
PICKT HATCH		To go to the manor of pickt hatch, a cant name for some part of the town noted for bawdy houses in Shakespeare's time, and used by him in that sense.
PIG		Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. To pig together; to lie or sleep together, two or more in a bed. Cold pig; a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes, and leaving them to pig or lie in the cold. To buy a pig in a poke; to purchase any thing without seeing. Pig's eyes; small eyes. Pigsnyes; the same: a vulgar term of endearment to a woman. He can have boiled pig at home; a mark of being master of his own house: an allusion to a well known poem and story. Brandy is Latin for pig and goose; an apology for drinking a dram after either.
PIGEONS		Sharpers, who, during the drawing of the lottery, wait ready mounted near Guildhall, and, as soon as the first two or three numbers are drawn, which they receive from a confederate on a card, ride with them full speed to some distant insurance office, before fixed on, where there is another of the gang, commonly a decent looking woman, who takes care to be at the office before the hour of drawing: to her he secretly gives the number, which she insures for a considerable sum: thus biting the biter.
PILGRIM'S SALVE		A sirreverence, human excrement.
PIN MONEY		An allowance settled on a married woman for her pocket expences.
PINCH		To go into a tradesman's shop under the pretence of purchasing rings or other light articles, and while examining them to shift some up the sleeve of the coat. Also to ask for change for a guinea, and when the silver is received, to change some of the good shillings for bad ones; then suddenly pretending to recollect that you had sufficient silver to pay the bill, ask for the guinea again, and return the change, by which means several bad shillings are passed.
PIT		A watch fob. He drew a rare thimble from the swell's pit. He took a handsome watch from the gentleman's fob.
PITCHER		The miraculous pitcher, that holds water with the mouth downwards: a woman's commodity. She has crack'd her pitcher or pipkin; she has lost her maidenhead.
PITT'S PICTURE		A window stopt up on the inside, to save the tax imposed in that gentleman's administration. PARTY WIT
PLAY		To play booty; to play with an intention to lose. To play the whole game; to cheat. To play least in sight; to hide, or keep out of the way. To play the devil; to be guilty of some great irregularity or mismanagement.
PLUG TAIL		A man's penis.
POMPKIN		A man or woman of Boston in America: from, the number of pompkins raised and eaten by the people of that country. Pompkinshire; Boston and its dependencies.
POPS		Pistols. Popshop: a pawnbroker's shop. To pop; to pawn: also to shoot. I popped my tatler; I pawned my watch. I popt the cull; I shot the man. His means are two pops and a galloper; that is, he is a highwayman.
PPC		An inscription on the visiting cards of our modern fine gentleman, signifying that they have called POUR PRENDRE CONGE, i.e. 'to take leave,' This has of late been ridiculed by cards inscribed D.I.O. i.e. 'Damme, I'm off.'
PRAD		A horse. The swell flashes a rum prad: the e gentleman sports a fine horse.
PRAY		She prays with her knees upwards; said of a woman much given to gallantry and intrigue. At her last prayers; saying of an old maid.
PRIEST-CRAFT		The art of awing the laity, managing their consciences, and diving into their pockets.
PRIGGING		Riding; also lying with a woman.
PRINCOD		A pincushion. SCOTCH - Also a round plump man or woman.
PRINT		All in print, quite neat or exact, set, screwed up. Quite in print; set in a formal manner.
PRY		To examine minutely into a matter or business. A prying fellow; a man of impertinent curiosity, apt to peep and inquire into other men's secrets.
PUBLIC MAN		A bankrupt.
PUFF GUTS		A fat man.
PUFF, or PUFFER		One who bids at auctions, not with an intent to buy, but only to raise the price of the lot; for which purpose many are hired by the proprietor of the goods on sale.
PUNCH		A liquor called by foreigners Contradiction, from its being composed of spirits to make it strong, water to make it weak, lemon juice to make it sour, and sugar to make it sweet. Punch is also the name of the prince of puppets, the chief wit and support of a puppet-show. To punch it, is a cant term for running away. Punchable; old passable money, anno 1695. A girl that is ripe for man is called a punchable wench. Cobler's Punch. Urine with a cinder in it.
QUAIL-PIPE		A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots; boots resembling a quail pipe, from the number of plaits; they were much worn in the reign of Charles II.
QUEAN		A slut, or worthless woman, a strumpet.
QUEER PLUNGERS		Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each; and the supposed drowned persons, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.
QUID		The quantity of tobacco put into the mouth at one time. To quid tobacco; to chew tobacco. Quid est hoc? hoc est quid; a guinea. Half a quid; half a guinea. The swell tipped me fifty quid for the prad; the gentleman gave fifty pounds for the horse.
QUIM		The private parts of a woman: perhaps from the Spanish quemar, to burn. A piece's furbelow.
RACK RENT		Rent strained to the utmost value. To lie at rack and manger; to be in great disorder.
RAILS		See HEAD RAILS. A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation, or scolding from a married woman to her husband.
RAINBOW		Knight of the rainbow; a footman: from being commonly clothed in garments of different colours. A meeting of gentlemen, styled of the most ancient order of the rainbow, was advertised to be held at the Foppington's Head, Moorfields.
RAMMER		The arm. The busnapper's kenchin seized my rammer; i.e. the watchman laid hold of my arm.
RAMMISH		Rank. Rammish woman; a sturdy virago.
RANK RIDER		A highwayman.
RANTIPOLE		A rude romping boy or girl; also a gadabout dissipated woman. To ride rantipole; the same as riding St. George. See ST. GEORGE.
RAP		To take a false oath; also to curse. He rapped out a volley; i.e. he swore a whole volley of oaths. To rap, means also to exchange or barter: a rap is likewise an Irish halfpenny. Rap on the knuckles; a reprimand.
RASCAL		A rogue or villain: a term borrowed from the chase; a rascal originally meaning a lean shabby deer, at the time of changing his horns, penis, etc. whence, in the vulgar acceptation, rascal is conceived to signify a man without genitals: the regular vulgar answer to this reproach, if uttered by a woman, is the offer of an ocular demonstration of the virility of the party so defamed. Some derive it from RASCAGLIONE, an Italian word signifying a man. without testicles, or an eunuch.
RAT		A drunken man or woman taken up by the watch, and confined in the, watch-house. To smell a rat; to suspect some intended trick, or unfair design.
RATTLE-PATE		A volatile, unsteady, or whimsical man or woman.
RATTLING COVE		A coachman.
REBUS		A riddle or pun on a man's name, expressed in sculpture or painting, thus: a bolt or arrow, and a tun, for Bolton; death's head, and a ton, for Morton.
RED LETTER DAY		A saint's day or holiday, marked in the calendars with red letters. Red letter men; Roman Catholics: from their observation of the saint days marked in red letters.
REGULARS		Share of the booty. The coves cracked the swell's crib, fenced the swag, and each cracksman napped his regular; some fellows broke open a gentleman's house, and after selling the property which they had stolen, they divided the money between them.
RELIGIOUS PAINTER		One who does not break the commandment which prohibits the making of the likeness of any thing in heaven or earth, or in the waters under the earth.
RELISH		Carnal connection with a woman.
RENDEZVOUS		A place of meeting. The rendezvous of the beggars were, about the year 1638, according to the Bellman, St, Quinton's, the Three Crowns in the Vintry, St. Tybs, and at Knapsbury: there were four barns within a mile of London. In Middlesex were four other harbours, called Draw the Pudding out of the Fire, the Cross Keys in Craneford parish, St. Julian's in Isleworth parish, and the house of Pettie in Northall parish. In Kent, the King's Barn near Dartford, and Ketbrooke near Blackheath.
REP		A woman of reputation.
REVERSED		A man set by bullies on his head, that his money may fall out of his breeches, which they afterwards by accident pick up. See HOISTING.
RIDER		A person who receives part of the salary of a place or appointment from the ostensible occupier, by virtue of an agreement with the donor, or great man appointing. The rider is said to be quartered upon the possessor, who often has one or more persons thus riding behind him. See QUARTERED.
RIDING SKIMMINGTON		A ludicrous cavalcade, in ridicule of a man beaten by his wife. It consists of a man riding behind a woman, with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman all the while beating him with a ladle; a smock displayed on a staff is carried before them as an emblematical standard, denoting female superiority: they are accompanied by what is called the ROUGH MUSIC, that is, frying-pans, bulls horns, marrow-bones and cleavers, etc. A procession of this kind is admirably described by Butler in his Hudibras. He rode private, i.e. was a private trooper.
RIDING ST GEORGE		The woman uppermost in the amorous congress, that is, the dragon upon St. George. This is said to be the way to get a bishop.
RING		Money procured by begging: beggars so called it from its ringing when thrown to them. Also a circle formed for boxers, wrestlers, and cudgel-players, by a man styled Vinegar; who, with his hat before his eyes, goes round the circle, striking at random with his whip to prevent the populace from crowding in.
RIPPONS		Spurs: Rippon is famous for a manufactory of spurs both for men and fighting cocks.
ROGER		A portmanteau; also a man's yard.
ROMP		A forward wanton girl, a tomrig. Grey, in his notes to Shakespeare, derives it from arompo, an animal found in South Guinea, that is a man eater. See HOYDEN.
ROOM		She lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
ROWLAND		To give a Rowland for an Oliver; to give an equivalent. Rowland and Oliver were two knights famous in romance: the wonderful achievements of the one could only be equalled by those of the other.
RUFFIAN		The devil. - May the ruffian nab the cuffin queer, and let the harmanbeck trine with his kinchins about his colquarren; may the Devil take the justice, and let the constable be hanged with his children about his neck. The ruffian cly thee; the Devil take thee. Ruffian cook ruffian, who scalded the Devil in his feathers; a saying of a bad cook. Ruffian sometimes also means, a justice.
RUFFMANS		The woods, hedges, or bushes.
RUM TOPPING		A rich commode, or woman's head-dress.
RUNT		A short squat man or woman: from the small cattle called Welsh runts.
RUSHERS		Thieves who knock at the doors of great houses in London, in summer time, when the families are gone out of town, and on the door being opened by a woman, rush in and rob the house; also housebreakers who enter lone houses by force.
RUSTY		Out of use, To nab the rust; to be refractory; properly applied to a restive horse, and figuratively to the human species. To ride rusty; to be sullen; called also to ride grub.
SAINT MONDAY		A holiday most religiously observed by journeymen shoemakers, and other inferior mechanics. a profanation of that day, by working, is punishable by a line, particularly among the gentle craft. An Irishman observed, that this saint's anniversary happened every week.
SALESMAN'S DOG		A barker. Vide BARKER.
SANDY PATE		A red haired man or woman.
SAWNY or SANDY		A general nick-name for a Scotchman, as Paddy is for an Irishman, or Taffy for a Welchman; Sawny or Sandy being the familiar abbreviation or diminution of Alexander, a very favourite name among the Scottish nation.
SCAB		A worthless man or woman.
SCAMP		A highwayman. Royal scamp: a highwayman who robs civilly. Royal foot scamp; a footpad who behaves in like manner.
SCONCE		The head, probably as being the fort and citadel of a man: from SCONCE, an old name for a fort, derived from a Dutch word of the same signification; To build a sconce: a military term for bilking one's quarters. To sconce or skonce; to impose a fine.
SCOTCH GREYS		Lice. The headquarters of the Scotch greys: the head of a man full of large lice.
SCOTCH MIST		A sober soaking rain; a Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin.
SCOUNDREL		A man void of every principle of honour.
SCOUT		A college errand-boy at Oxford, called a gyp at Cambridge. Also a watchman or a watch.
SCREW JAWS		A wry-mouthed man or woman.
SCRIP		A scrap or slip of paper. The cully freely blotted the scrip, and tipt me forty hogs; the man freely signed the bond, and gave me forty shillings. - Scrip is also a Change Alley phrase for the last loan or subscription. What does scrip go at for the next rescounters? what does scrip sell for delivered at the next day of settling?
SCULL, or SCULLER		A boat rowed by one man with a light kind of oar, called a scull; also a one-horse chaise or buggy.
SCUT		The tail of a hare or rabbit; also that of a woman.
SERVED		Found guilty. Convicted. Ordered to be punished or transported. To serve a cull out; to beat a man soundly.
SETTER		A bailiff's follower, who, like a setting dog follows and points the game for his master. Also sometimes an exciseman.
SEVEN-SIDED ANIMAL		A one-eyed man or woman, each having a right side and a left side, a fore side and a back side, an outside, an inside, and a blind side.
SHAG		To copulate. He is but bad shag; he is no able woman's man.
SHAG-BAG, or SHAKE-BAG		A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit.
SHAKE		To draw any thing from the pocket. He shook the swell of his fogle; he robbed the gentleman of his silk handkerchief.
SHE NAPPER		A woman thief-catcher; also a bawd or pimp.
SHEEP'S HEAD		Like a sheep's head, all jaw; saying of a talkative man or woman.
SHERIFF'S JOURNEYMAN		The hangman.
SHOD ALL ROUND		A parson who attends a funeral is said to be shod all round, when he receives a hat-band, gloves, and scarf: many shoeings being only partial.
SIDE POCKET		He has as much need of a wife as a dog of a side pocket; said of a weak old debilitated man. He wants it as much as a dog does a side pocket; a simile used for one who desires any thing by no means necessary.
SILENCE		To silence a man; to knock him down, or stun him. Silence in the court, the cat is pissing; a gird upon any one requiring silence unnecessarily.
SIR REVERENCE		Human excrement, a turd.
SIZAR		Formerly students who came to Cambridge University for purposes of study and emolument. But at present they are just as gay and dissipated as their fellow collegians. About fifty years ago they were on a footing with the servitors at Oxford, but by the exertions of the present Bishop of Llandaff, who was himself a sizar, they were absolved from all marks of inferiority or of degradation. The chief difference at present between them and the pensioners, consists in the less amount of their college fees. The saving thus made induces many extravagant fellows to become sizars, that they may have more money to lavish on their dogs, pieces, etc.
SIZE		To sup at one's own expence. If a MAN asks you to SUP, he treats you; if to SIZE, you pay for what you eat - liquors ONLY being provided by the inviter.
SKIN FLINT		An avaricious man or woman,
SKIP KENNEL		A footman.
SLATTERN		A woman sluttishly negligent in her dress.
SLICE		To take a slice; to intrigue, particularly with a married woman, because a slice off a cut loaf is not missed.
SMACKING COVE		A coachman.
SMEAR GELT		A bribe. GERMAN.
SMICKET		A smock, or woman's shift.
SMOUS		A German Jew.
SNAFFLER		A highwayman. Snaffler of prances; a horse stealer.
SNAKESMAN		See LITTLE SNAKESMAN.
SNOOZING KEN		A brothel. The swell was spiced in a snoozing ken of his screens; the gentleman was robbed of his bank notes in a brothel.
SOCKET MONEY		A whore's fee, or hire: also money paid for a treat, by a married man caught in an intrigue.
SORRY		Vile, mean, worthless. A sorry fellow, or hussy; a worthless man or woman.
SOW		A fat woman. He has got the wrong sow by the ear, he mistakes his man. Drunk as David's sow; see DAVID'S SOW.
SPARK		A spruce, trim, or smart fellow. A man that is always thirsty, is said to have a spark in his throat.
SPEAK WITH		To rob. I spoke with the cull on the cherry-coloured prancer; I robbed the man on the black horse.
SPICE		To rob. Spice the swell; rob the gentleman.
SQUAB		A fat man or woman: from their likeness to a well-stuffed couch, called also a squab. A new-hatched chicken.
SQUARE		Honest, not roguish. A square cove, i.e. a man who does not steal, or get his living by dishonest means.
SQUARE TOES		An old man: square toed shoes were anciently worn in common, and long retained by old men.
SQUINT-A-PIPES		A squinting man or woman; said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunday; or born in a hackney coach, and looking out of both windows; fit for a cook, one eye in the pot, and the other up the chimney; looking nine ways at once.
STALLING		Making or ordaining. Stalling to the rogue; an ancient ceremony of instituting a candidate into the society of rogues, somewhat similar to the creation of a herald at arms. It is thus described by Harman: the upright man taking a gage of bowse, i.e. a pot of strong drink, pours it on the head of the rogue to be admitted; saying, - I, A.B. do stall thee B.C. to the rogue; and from henceforth it shall be lawful for thee to cant for thy living in all places.
STALLION		A man kept by an old lady for secret services.
STAMP		A particular manner of throwing the dice out of the box, by striking it with violence against the table.
STEENKIRK		A muslin neckcloth carelessly put on, from the manner in which the French officers wore their cravats when they returned from the battle of Steenkirk.
STITCH		A nick name for a taylor: also a term for lying with a woman.
STOW		Stow you; be silent, or hold your peace. Stow your whidds and plant'em, for the cove of the ken can cant'em; you have said enough, the man of the house understands you.
STRAIT WAISTCOAT		A tight waistcoat, with long sleeves coming over the hand, having strings for binding them behind the back of the wearer: these waistcoats are used in madhouses for the management of lunatics when outrageous.
STRAPPER		A large man or woman.
STRAPPING		Lying with a woman.
STRAW		A good woman in the straw; a lying-in woman. His eyes draw straw; his eyes are almost shut, or he is almost asleep: one eye draws straw, and t'other serves the thatcher.
STROKE		To take a stroke: to take a bout with a woman.
STRONG MAN		To play the part of the strong man, i.e. to push the cart and horses too; to be whipt at the cart's tail.
STRUM		To have carnal knowledge of a woman; also to play badly on the harpsichord; or any other stringed instrument. A strummer of wire, a player on any instrument strung with wire.
STURDY BEGGARS		The fifth and last of the most ancient order of canters, beggars that rather demand than ask
SUCK		To pump. To draw from a man all be knows. The file sucked the noodle's brains: the deep one drew out of the fool all he knew.
SUNBURNT		Clapped; also haying many male children.
SUNDAY MAN		One who goes abroad on that day only, for fear of arrests.
SUSPENCE		One in a deadly suspence; a man just turned off at the gallows.
SWEET HEART		A term applicable to either the masculine or feminine gender, signifying a girl's lover, or a man's mistress: derived from a sweet cake in the shape of a heart.
SWELL		A gentleman. A well-dressed map. The flashman bounced the swell of all his blunt; the girl's bully frightened the gentleman out of all his money.
SWINDLER		One who obtains goods on credit by false pretences, and sells them for ready money at any price, in order to make up a purse. This name is derived from the German word SCHWINDLIN, to totter, to be ready to fall; these arts being generally practised by persons on the totter, or just ready to break. The term SWINDLER has since been used to signify cheats of every kind.
TACKLE		A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mistress good clothes. A man's tackle: the genitals.
TAFFY		Davy. A general name for a Welchman, St. David being the tutelar saint of Wales. Taffy's day; the first of March, St. David's day.
TALE TELLERS		Persons said to have been formerly hired to tell wonderful stories of giants and fairies, to lull their hearers to sleep. Talesman; the author of a story or report: I'll tell you my tale, and my talesman. Tale bearers; mischief makers, incendiaries in families.
TALLYWAGS, or TARRYWAGS		A man's testicles.
TANNER		A sixpence. The kiddey tipped the rattling cove a tanner for luck; the lad gave the coachman sixpence for drink.
TANTADLIN TART		A sirreverence, human excrement.
TAWDRY		Garish, gawdy, with lace or staring and discordant colours: a term said to be derived from the shrine and altar of St. Audrey (an Isle of Ely saintess), which for finery exceeded all others thereabouts, so as to become proverbial; whence any fine dressed man or woman said to be all St Audrey, and by contraction, all tawdry.
TAYLE DRAWERS		Thieves who snatch gentlemens swords from their sides. He drew the cull's tayle rumly; he snatched away the gentleman's sword cleverly.
TAYLOR		Nine taylors make a man; an ancient and common saying, originating from the effeminacy of their employment; or, as some have it, from nine taylors having been robbed by one man; according to others, from the speech of a woollendraper, meaning that the custom of nine, taylors would make or enrich one man - A London taylor, rated to furnish half a man to the Trained Bands, asking how that could possibly be done? was answered, By sending four, journeymen and and apprentice. - Put a taylor, a weaver, and a miller into a sack, shake them well, And the first that puts out his head is certainly a thief. - A taylor is frequently styled pricklouse, assaults on those vermin with their needles.
TEARS OF THE TANKARD		The drippings of liquor on a man's waistcoat.
TENANT FOR LIFE		A married man; i.e. possessed of a woman for life.
TERMAGANT		An outrageous scold from Termagantes, a cruel Pagan, formerly represented in diners shows and entertainments, where being dressed a la Turque, in long clothes, he was mistaken for a furious woman.
THATCH-GALLOWS		A rogue, or man of bad character.
THIMBLE		A watch. The swell flashes a rum thimble; the gentleman sports a fine watch.
THOMAS		Man Thomas; a man's penis.
THOMOND		Like Lord Thomond's cocks, all on one side. Lord Thomond's cock-feeder, an Irishman, being entrusted with some cocks which were matched for a considerable sum, the night before the battle shut them all together in one room, concluding that as they were all on the same side, they would not disagree: the consequence was, they were most of them either killed or lamed before the morning.
THOROUGH CHURCHMAN		A person who goes in at one door of a church, and out at the other, without stopping.
TICKLE TAIL		A rod, or schoolmaster. A man's penis.
TIMBER TOE		A man with a wooden leg.
TIP-TOP		The best: perhaps from fruit, that growing at the top of the tree being generally the best, as partaking most of the sun. A tip-top workman; the best, or most excellent Workman.
TO TIP		To give or lend. Tip me your daddle; give me your hand. Tip me a hog; give me a shilling. To tip the lion; to flatten a man's nose with the thumb, and, at the same time to extend his mouth, with the fingers, thereby giving him a sort of lion-like countenauce. To tip the velvet; tonguing woman. To tip all nine; to knock down all the nine pins at once, at the game of bows or skittles: tipping, at these gaines, is slightly touching the tops of the pins with the bowl. Tip; a draught; don't spoil his tip.
TO WAP		To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
TO WAP		To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
TOAD EATER		A poor female relation, and humble companion, or reduced gentlewoman, in a great family, the standing butt, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off, and all ill humours vented. This appellation is derived from a mountebank's servant, on whom all experiments used to be made in public by the doctor, his master; among which was the eating of toads, formerly supposed poisonous. Swallowing toads is here figuratively meant for swallowing or putting up with insults, as disagreeable to a person of feeling as toads to the stomach.
TOAST		A health; also a beautiful woman whose health is often drank by men. The origin of this term (as it is said) was this: a beautiful lady bathing in a cold bath, one of her admirers out of gallantry drank some of the water: whereupon another of her lovers observed, he never drank in the morning, but he would kiss the toast, and immediately saluted the lady.
TOBY LAY		The highway. High toby man; a highway-man. Low toby man; a footpad.
TOGEMANS		The same.
TOGS		Clothes. The swell is rum-togged. The gentleman is handsomely dressed.
TOLLIBAN RIG		A species of cheat carried on by a woman, assuming the character of a dumb and deaf conjuror.
TOM OF BEDLAM		The same as Abram man.
TOM TURDMAN		A night man, one who empties necessary houses.
TOOLS		The private parts of a man.
TOPPING COVE		The hangman.
TOPPING MAN		A rich man.
TOSS OFF		Manual pollution.
TOUCH		To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in the head; insane, crazy. To touch up a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. Touch bone and whistle; any one having broken wind backwards, according to the vulgar law, may be pinched by any of the company till he has touched bone (i.e. his teeth) and whistled.
TOWN		A woman of the town; a prostitute. To be on the town: to live by prostitution.
TRAPES		A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.
TRAVELLER		To tip the traveller; to tell wonderful stories, to romance.
TRAVELLING PIQUET		A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass by on the side next them, according to the following estimation: A parson riding a grey horse, witholue furniture; game. An old woman under a hedge; ditto. A cat looking out of a window; 60. A man, woman, and child, in a buggy; 40. A man with a woman behind him; 30. A flock of sheep; 20. A flock of geese; 10. A post chaise; 5. A horseman; 2. A man or woman walking; 1.
TRENCHER MAN		A stout trencher man; one who has a good appetite, or, as the term is, plays a good knife and fork.
TRIG IT		To play truant. To lay a man trigging; to knock him down.
TRIM TRAM		Like master, like man.
TRIPE		The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering appellation for a fat man.
TROLLOP		A lusty coarse sluttish woman.
TROT		An old trot; a decrepit old woman. A dog trot; a gentle pace.
TUP		To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
TURD		There were four turds for dinner: stir turd, hold turd, tread turd, and mus-turd: to wit, a hog's face, feet and chitterlings, with mustard. He will never shite a seaman's turd; i.e. he will never make a good seaman.
TURK		A cruel, hard-hearted man. Turkish treatment; barbarous usage. Turkish shore; Lambeth, Southwark, and Rotherhithe side of the Thames.
TURNPIKE MAN		A parson; because the clergy collect their tolls at our entrance into and exit from the world.
TWISS		(IRISH) A Jordan, or pot de chambre. A Mr. Richard Twiss having in his "Travels" given a very unfavourable description of the Irish character, the inhabitants of Dublin, byway of revenge, thought proper to christen this utensil by his name - suffice it to say that the baptismal rites were not wanting at the ceremony. On a nephew of this gentleman the following epigram was made by a friend of ouis: Perish the country, yet my name Shall ne'er in STORY be forgot, But still the more increase in fame, The more the country GOES TO POT.
TWO THIEVES BEATING A ROGUE		A man beating his hands against his sides to warm himself in cold weather; called also beating the booby, and cuffing Jonas.
TWO-HANDED		Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman,
UNFORTUNATE GENTLEMEN		The horse guards, who thus named themselves in Germany, where a general officer seeing them very awkward in bundling up their forage, asked what the devil they were; to which some of them answered, unfortunate gentlemen.
UNGRATEFUL MAN		A parson, who at least once a week abuses his best benefactor, i.e. the devil.
UPRIGHT MAN		An upright man signifies the chief or principal of a crew. The vilest, stoutest rogue in the pack is generally chosen to this post, and has the sole right to the first night's lodging with the dells, who afterwards are used in common among the whole fraternity. He carries a short truncheon in his hand, which he calls his filchman, and has a larger share than ordinary in whatsoever is gotten in the society. He often travels in company with thirty or forty males and females, abram men, and others, over whom he presides arbitrarily. Sometimes the women and children who are unable to travel, or fatigued, are by turns carried in panniers by an ass, or two, or by some poor jades procured for that purpose.
USED UP		Killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedition at Carthagena, where he desired the commander in chief to order him some more grenadiers, for those he had were all used up.
VAIN-GLORIOUS, or OSTENTATIOUS MAN		One who boasts without reason, or, as the canters say, pisses more than he drinks.
VALENTINE		The first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman, on St. Valentine's day, the 14th of February, when it is said every bird chuses his mate for the ensuing year.
VAN-NECK		Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby.
VARLETS		Now rogues and rascals, formerly yeoman's servants.
VARMENT		Natty, dashing. He is quite varment, he is quite the go. He sports a varment hat, coat, etc.; he is dressed like a gentleman Jehu.
VAULTING SCHOOL		A bawdy-house; also an academy where vaulting and other manly exercises are taught.
VELVET		To tip the velvet; to put one's tongue into a woman's mouth. To be upon velvet; to have the best of a bet or match. To the little gentleman in velvet, ie: the mole that threw up the hill that caused Crop (King William's horse) to stumble; a toast frequently drank by the tories and catholics in Ireland.
VICE ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS		A drunken man that pisses under the table into his companions' shoes.
WAGTAIL		A lewd woman.
WARE		A woman's ware; her commodity.
WARM		Rich, in good circumstances. To warm, or give a man a warming; to beat him. See CHAFED.
WATER SNEAKSMAN		A man who steals from ships or craft on the river.
WATER-MILL		A woman's private parts.
WEED		To take a part. The kiddey weeded the swell's screens; the youth took some of the gentleman's bank notes.
WHACK		A share of a booty obtained by fraud. A paddy whack; a stout brawney Irishman.
WHAPPER		A large man or woman.
WHISKER SPLITTER		A man of intrigue.
WHIT		Whittington's Newgate. - Five rum-padders are rubbed in the darkmans out of the whit, and are piked into the deuseaville; five highwaymen broke out of Newgate in the night, and are gone into the country.
WHITE SERJEANT		A man fetched from the tavern or ale-house by his wife, is said to be arrested by the white serjeant.
WHITE SWELLING		A woman big with child is said to have a white swelling.
WHORE'S BIRD		A debauched fellow, the largest of all birds. He sings more like a whore's bird than a canary bird; said of one who has a strong manly voice.
WHORE-MONGER		A man that keeps more than one mistress. A country gentleman, who kept a female friend, being reproved by the parson of the parish, and styled a whore-monger, asked the parson whether he had a cheese in his house; and being answered in the affirmative, 'Pray,' says he, 'does that one cheese make you a cheese-monger?'
WIDOW'S WEEDS		Mourning clothes of a peculiar fashion, denoting her state. A grass widow; a discarded mistress. a widow bewitched; a woman whose husband is abroad, and said, but not certainly known, to be dead.
WIGANNOWNS		A man wearing a large wig.
WIGSBY		Wigsby; a man wearing a wig.
WIT		He has as much wit as three folks, two fools and a madman.
WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND		A married couple, where the woman is bigger than her husband.
WOMAN OF ALL WORK		Sometimes applied to a female servant, who refuses none of her master's commands.
WOMAN OF THE TOWN, or WOMAN OF PLEASURE		A prostitute.
WOMAN'S CONSCIENCE		Never satisfied.
WOODEN HABEAS		A coffin. A man who dies in prison is said to go out with a wooden habeas. He went out with a wooden habeas; i.e. his coffin.
WOOL GATHERING		Your wits are gone a woolgathering; saying to an absent man, one in a reverie, or absorbed in thought.
WRINKLE		A wrinkle-bellied whore; one who has had a number of bastards: child-bearing leaves wrinkles in a woman's belly. To take the wrinkles out of any one's belly; to fill it out by a hearty meal. You have one wrinkle more in your arse; i.e. you have one piece of knowledge more than you had, every fresh piece of knowledge being supposed by the vulgar naturalists to add a wrinkle to that part.
YEA AND NAY MAN		A quaker, a simple fellow, one who can only answer yes, or no.