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FLASH DICTIONARY

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BY G-EOSLGE KENT, HISTORIAN TO THE PRIZE RING.

In this Work will he found

Numerous Words and Flash Sayings

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FLASH DICTIONARY.

Abbess, a bawd, the mistress of a bawdyken

Abbott's Priory, the King's Bench Prison

Abram Cove, a naked or poor man, a sturdy beggar in rags

Above par — having the need- ful, possessed of the poney, plenty of money, ( best bliss of earth'

Abram men — fellows dressing themselves in various rags, old ribbons, fox tails, beg- ging in the streets, pre- tending to be mad, fellows who steal pocket books only

Abram, to sham — to slum, to pretend sickness

Academy — a brothel, bagnio

Academican — a scholar at an academy, a whore at a bro- thel

Academy, a floating — a hulk at Woolwich for convicts

Ack ruffians — rogues who in con/unction with watermen sometimes rob and murder on the water

Ack pirates — fresh water ♦heWes who steal on navi- nbJe rivers

Acting the deceitful, perform-

4 ing, mumming, acting

Adam — a henchman, aa ac* complice

Adam's ale, our first father's drink, water, ( best with brandy'

Adam tiler, a receiver of sto- len goods, a pickpocket, a fence

Affair of honour — killing an innocent man in a duel

All set— desperate fellows, ready for any kind of mis- chief

Alderman in chains — turkey and sausages

Alive — awake, fly, up, leary, acquainted with

All out, the reckoning drank out, ( How stands the ac- count 'twixt me and ven geance?*

Ambidexter, one who snacks in gaming with both parties

Amen curler — a parish clerk

Anglers, or starrers, an order o: thieves who break show glasses in jeweller's win- dows to steal the goods.

Angling cove — a receiver of stolen goods

Angelica,— young unmarried ladies

Anointed — knowing, ripe for mischief

Arm props — crutches B 2

FLASH DICTIONARY.

Arch rogue— the chief of a gang of thieves, or gyp- sies

A rch doxey — the same among female canters or gypsies. Astronomer — a star gazer, a horse that carries his head high

As right as atrtvit, the tippy, all right

A pig's whisper — a grunt, ca word 'twixt you and me'

Aunt, — a bawd, sometimes called mother

Autem— a church, meeting- house

Autem cacklers, dissenters of all sects

Autem bawler, a preacher, a parson

Autem dippers — anabaptists

Autem cackle tub, a meeting house for dissenters, a pulpit

Autem divers, — pickpockets who practice in churches ; also churchwardens and overseers of the poor, who defraud, deceive, and im-

' pose on the parish

Autem gogglers — conjurors, fortune tellers

Autem mor , or mot — a wo- man of the same sect, a beggar, a prostitute

Autem quaver's tub, a qua- ker's meeting house

B. Babes in the wood — rogues

in the stocks or pillory Bacon-laced— full faced

Back slums, low unfrequent- ed parts in the metropolis

Badge coves, — parish pen- sioners i Badge, one burnt in the

hand i Badger, to confound, per plex, or tease

Badgers, — forestallers and murderers

Bag the swag — pocket your portion, hide your whack

Baggage — a slut, a common prostitute

Ball o'wax — a snob, a shoe- maker

Ballum ranorum, a hop, or a dance, where the women are all prostitutes

Balsam — rag, rhino, money

Balm, a lie

Bandog, a bum-bailiff

Bank — a depository for cash at a gaming-table

Bandy — a tanner, a sixpence

Banyan day — Saturday, when there's nothing left to eat

Bantling a young child

Bar that — cheese it, stow it, don't mention it

Barber's clerks, — conceited ignorant shop-boys

Bark, an Irishman

Barker, a salesman's servant, a prowler to pick up coun- trymen in the streets

Barking irons, pistols

Barnacles, spectacles

Battered bully, an old gloak well milled, huffing fellow

Bawd, a procuress, a woman that keeps a brothel

V L ASM D I CT I O N A R Y .

Battner, an ox

Beak, a justice of the peace,

a magistrate Beak, rum, a justice who

will do any thing for

money Beak, queer, — a magistrate

that is particularly strict

to his duty Beaks out on the nose, ma- gistrates out on a search

night Beaksmen — traps Bear leader — a gravelling

tutor Beat — a watchman's walk Beaver or tile — a hat Bnck or harman, a beadle Beeswax — cheese Belch, malt liquor Ben, or Sam — a raw, a no- vice Beau traps -genteel dressed

sharpers, fortune hunters Beef— to alarm, discover, to

pursue Belly cheat—an apron, a

pad Belly timber — food of all

sorts Belly-go- fister — a hard blow

on the belly Bene — prime, good Bene cove — hearty fellow,

a tr mp Bene bowse — good beer Bene of gibes — counterfeiters

of passes Bene darmans — good night Bene fakers — counterfeiters Bender — a shilling

Benjamin — a top coat, a great coat

Betty — a small picklock

Bever —an afternoon's lun- cheon

Better half — an ironical name for a wife

Biddy — a . fowl, a capon, or chicken ; a young chicken

Bilboa — a sword, or any pointed instrument

Billing and cooing — thesexe9 humbugging one another; courting

Bilk — to swindle, cheat

Bing — to cut, go away

Bingo — spirituous liquors

Bingo boy — a male dram drinker

Bingo mot — a female dram drinker

Bit — money

Big'uns — men of conse- quence

Bit — taken in, duped

Bit, queer — counterfeit mo- ney

Bit cull — a coiner

Bit smasher — an utterer of base coin

Bit of cavalry— a knacker, a saddle horse

Bit ol muslin — a flame, a sweetheart

Birch, to — to yield, to give up an attempt thro' fear

Bitch, to, a character — or to perform any thing badly

Biting your name in — tak- ing a large draught, drink- ing greedily B 3

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FLASH DICTIONARY.

Blab — a prating stupid fellow,

a fool Blab, to — to nose, to chatter,

to tell secretd Black beetles — the lower or- der of people Black diamonds — coals, or

coal heavers Black boy — a clergyman Black Indies — Newcastle Black-strap — port wine Black box, or knob — a lawyer Black spy— an informer Black act — act of picking

locks Black cove dubber — a gaoler

or turnkey Black-legs — sharpers, fellows who lay wagers, and after losing cannot pay them ; a professed gambler Black houses — prisons Blank — frustrated, baffled Blarney— a wonderful story,

flattery. See Gammon. Bleaters — Iambs, sheep Bleats — a sheep stealer Bleak mot — a fair girl Bleeder — a crammer, [a lie Blind, to — to cheat under a

pretence Blind harpers — itinerant va- gabonds with harps Blinker — a one eyed horse Block— jemmy, pipkin, head Block houses — prisons Blow out — a belly full^ an

extraordinary meal Blow a cloud — smoking a

pipe Blow the gab — to split, to espose, inform

Blow— to split, tell, expose Blow me tight — a sort of bur lesque oath ; as, If I don' I'm jigger'd, &c. Blowings — prostitutes Blue ruin — gin Blue devils, blues — low spi- rits, horror struck Blue pigeon filers, or flyers — thieves who steal lead from the tops of houses and churches Blubber — lo whine, to cry Bluff — to bluster, look big Bluffer — an impudent im- posing fellow of an inn- keeper Blunderbuss — a stupid igno- rant fellow Blunt — tip, rag, money Boarding school — a house of

correction, or prison Bob-- a shilling Bob — a shoplifter's assistant Bob-stick — n hog, a shilling Bobtail — a lewd woman, or

prostitute Bobbery — a disturbance, a

row Bobbish — tol lol, pretty well

in health Body bag — a shirt Body snatchers — bailiffs, po- lice officers Boggy — kiddy, covey Bog trotters- — lower order

oi Irishmen Bogey — old Nick, the devil Boh the noon — to cheat the landlord by taking the goods away in the nigh* without paying the rent

PLASH DICTIONARY.

Bolt— cut, go, make yourself

scarce Bolted — hopped the twig,

shuffled, gone Bone- to steal Bone box — the mouth Bone setter — a hackney coach Bonnetter— a thump on the

hat Bon vivant — a choice spirit,

a jolly dog Booth — a place for harbour- ing thieves Booked — in for it, dished Booze — drink Boozy — drunk Boozing ken — a lush crib, a

sluicery, ale-house Bore— a tedious story, or a

vexatious circumstance Bordell — a bawdyken, house

of ill fame Bottle-head — stupid, void of

sense Bought — any thing that's

dearly paid for Bounce — to lie, to swagger Bounceable — proud, saucy Bower, the — Newgate Bowsprit — cork snorter, the

nose Bow wow mutton — cag mag,

dog's flesh, bad ill-looking

meat Bow wow broth, — broth

made of stinking meat Bow mam — a thief Box o'dominos — mouth and

teeth Box of ivory — the teeth Box Harry — to go without

victuals

Boxed — locked up

Boxing a Charley — upsetting a watchman in his box

Brads — money

Brass — impudence

Bracket face — devilish ugly

Bravoes — bullies

Bread basket— the stomach

Breaking shins — borrowing money

Breeze, kicking up a— excit- ing a disturbance

Brisket-beater — a RomanCa- tholic

Brick — a loaf

Broads — cards

Brogue — Irish accent

Broom — go, cut, be gone

Browns — copper coin

Brown Bess — a soldier's fire- lock

Brown suit — no go

Brown gater droppings, hea- vy wet, heavy brown, beer

Brush, or buy a brush — be ofl make yourself scarce

Brusher — a full glass

Brushed off—run away

Bub — guzzle, drink

Bubble— to cheat, defraud

Bub-rum — good liquor

Bub, queer — bad liquor

Buff, to — to swear falsely, to perjure

Buffer — a perjuror

Buffer napper — dog stealer

Bug — to damage

Buggaboes — sheriff's officers

Buggy — a one-horse chaise

Bugging—money taken by bailiffs not to arrest a per- son

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FLASH D1CTIONARV.

Bull — a blunder

Bull — crown -piece

Bull, half — half a crown- piece

Bull dogs — pistols

Bulk— a fellow that attends a pickpocket, to receive sto- len goods

Bully — a cowardly blustering fellow, pretended husband to a bawd or prostitute

Bully rocks — impudent vil- lains, kept to preserve or- der in houses of ill fame

Bully traps — pretended con- stables called to frighten he unwary and extort mo- ney

.Bum — a bailiff

Bum'd — arrested

Bunch of dog's meat — a squalling child in arms

Bunch of fives — the closed hand, the fist

Bunch of onions — chain and seals

Bunter — a low-life woman

Buntlings — petticoats

Bung-eyed — drunk, tipsy

Burning the ken — vagabonds residing in an alehouse, and leaving it without pay- ing the reckoning

Buss — a kiss

Bustle — ready, money

Buster, or burster — a loaf of bread

Button — a bad shilling

Buttering up— praising, flat- tering

Buttock and file — pickpocket

Bnzman— a pickpocket

Buz — a pickpocket Bye blow — a bastard

C.

Cabbage, — tailors' perqui- sites

Cadger— a beggar, a scran- ning cove, a mean sort of thief

Cagmag — stinking, or bad meat

Cake — an easy stupid fellow

Camesa — a shirt or shift

Canary bird — the inmate of a prison

Cank — dumb, silent

Cannister — see Block

Cant — mock religion, lan- guage of methodist9

Canter gloak — a parson, a liar

Canting — language of thieves gypsies, beggars, #c.

Canting crew, — impostors who go about preaching methodists, &c.

Canticle — a parish clerk

Cap, to — to out do, to beat

Caper merchant — a dancing master

Captain tober — first rate highwayman

Captain — head of a gang, a bully

Captain Flasham — a bluster- ing fellow, a coward

Captain queer Nabs — a dirty fellow without shoes

Captain Sharp — a cheat, a bully j Caravan — great quantity o, money

FLASH DICTIONARY.

Carrion case — shirt or shift

Carrion hunters — underta- kers

Castor — a tile, a hat

Cass— cheese

Cast your skin — strip naked

Cat — a drunken, fighting prostitute

Cat's meat — the constitution the body

Cat's-meat shop — an eating house

Catastrophe — behind, seat of honour

Catchpole— bail iff

Catgut scraper — a violin player

Cavil — to jaw, quarrel

Cavon — an old wig, or jasey

Chimmv — a shift

Chaff"— Irritating, or ironical language, to banter

Chaffer — the mouth

Chaffing crib — a drinking room where bantering is carried on

Chalk — advantage

Chalks — the legs

Chant — a flash song

Chancery, head in — said, in fighting, of him whose head is held fast under the arm of his antagonist, and gets punished with little chance of extricating himself, un- less he floors his man

Charley — a watchman

Charm — picklock

Chats — lice

Chates— - the gallows

Chaw-bacons, — countrymen, bumpkins

Cheeks — an imaginary per son; nobody ; as, who does that belong to ? Cheeks.

Cheese it — stow it, give over drop it

Cheese-cutters — bandy legs

Chere amie — a bed fellow, a sweetheart

Chickster — a flame, a pros- titute

Chink— rhino, rag, money

Chiv — a bleeder, a knife

Chizzle, to — gammon, cheat

Chuff— jolly, merry

Chum— a bedfellow, a com- panion, fellow prisoner

Chummy, or clergyman — a sweep

Civil rig — a trick of the beg- gars to obtain by over civi- lity

Clean shirt day — Sunday

Clankers— silver tankards

Clapper dudgeon— a beggar born

Claret — blood

Cleaned out — mucked, having lost all your money

Clench it— complete the thing finish the business

Clerked — cheated, imposed upon

Clicks in the gob — thumps in the mouth

Click — a knock down blow

Clinkers — fetters

Clickman toad — a watch*

* It was originally called so from the following circumstance. A gen- tleman passing through some part of the West of England, by acci- den* lost his watch, and a gre«n-

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FLASH DICTIONARY.

Clink, to — to nab, to snatch Clockey — a watchman Cloy — to steal Cly, or clie, a pocket Coach wheel — a crown piece Cock-chafer — a lady -bird, a

prostitute Cloaker — drop at Newgate Coffee-mill, watchman's rattle Cock — a trump, good fellow Cob— a dollar Cobble colter — a turkey Cog — to cheat with dice Cogue— a glass of gin Colt — one who lets horses to

highwaymen Coal-scuttle— a large bonnet Cole, or coal — -blunt, money Collector — a highway robber Colguarin — the neck College — the King's Bench,

or Fleet Prison Commission — a shirt Commission, to shake your —

to shake your whole frame Conk — the sneezer, the nose Convenient — a mistress Cooler — a glass of porter Coal-box — chorus of a song Cod — haughty meddling fool

horn hearing it tick imagined it to be some live creature; so with the greatest astonishment carried it to his neighbours, who, equally ama- zed as himself, (for none of them had ever heard uf such a thing as a watch) thought it was some reptile, and so christened it a ' Click man toad f and with a view to get a breed of young clickman toads, put it with a real toad ; but after ma- king many fruitless trials, they all assembled together and dashed its brain i oat for madness.

Come down — to give stand

treat ^

Come out, worse than-*verj '

bad, execrable Communicator — bell Conk — the nose Collar — to grab, snatch Cooped — in durance vile, to

lock up in a gaol Corinth — a brothel Coriander seed — money Corinthians — men of rank Corpus — the body Core — the heart Coppers — halfpence Con vey ancers — thieves Costermongers, jackass boys

venders of greens, &c. Cove, or covey— a fellow Cove — a receiver of stolen

goods Covess of a ken — a female

keeper of a brothel Cove, lumber — a person that

keeps a place for thieves Cover me decent — a top tog,

a greatcoat Cover me properly — fashion- able toggery Cover me queerly — ragged

raiment Court-card, a trump Counting-house, Mrs. Jones's

the privy | Cozy fuss — hilling & cooing; ! Crabb- shells — shoes Crack — to break open Cracksman- -a housebreaker Crack'd cannister — a broken

head i Cramp-rings — fetters Crammer — a lie

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FLASH DICTIONARY.

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Cramp words, — sentence of death passed on a criminal

Crap — money

Crapp'd — hanged

Crapingcurl — an executioner

Creeme, to — to put money in the hands of another

Crank — gin and water

Crib — to thieve

Cribb — a ken, a mean look- ing room

Crikey — a word of wonder- ment

Crimp — a decoyer. kidnapper

Crony — a companion

Cropping — the tail

Cross, on the — getting a li- ving by dishonest means

Cross fight— a sold battle

Cross bite — to cheat a friend

Cross the herring pond — transported to Botany-bay

Crowdsman — -a fiddler

Crummy — fat

Crusty — vexed, chagrined

Cub — a young child

Cucumbers — tailors

Cuffin queer — a magistrate

Culch — cag-mag meat, or the refuse of any thing

Culp — a kick

Cup-hot — very drunk

Cur — a sneak, a coward

Curbing law — to take goods out of window

Curl — clippings of money

Curlers— Jews who sweat gold coin by rubbing them together, for tl e dust

Oursi'ons — broken down lawyers, Newgate attor- neys

Cussin — a man

Cut — sheer off, go, avoid, or

shun a companion Cut bene — to speak gently

D.

Dab — a bed

Dab— one who is clevis

Dad — a father

Datify — max, gin

Dagen — a sword

Daddle — the hand

Damn — to crush, to do away

with a drama Damp your mugs — wet yom

mouth, drink Dandy — a swell, an exqui- site Dancers — stairs *

Darby — ready money Darbies — sausages, fetters Darby's fair — the day when felons are removed to New- gate for trial Darkey — night Darkmans — the night Darken the daylights — to

close up the eyes Dash — a waiter Dash — a portion Daylights — the eyes Dealers in queer — passers 01

bad money Dead beat— done over Derrick, to — to set out on an

enterprize Deuce — twopence Deux wins — two pence Dews — a cruu n-piece Dew-beaters — the feet Diamond squad, — folks of quality, big'uns

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FLASH DICTIONARY.

Diamond a horn, to— to put

a stone under the shoe, to

sham walking lame Diddle — spirituous liquors Diddle cove-— landlord of a

gin shop, &c. Diddle — to cheat Die proud, or game— to

die with courage, or har- dened Dimmock — money Dimber — handsome, pretty Dimber damber — the king of

the canting crew Dimber cove — a pretty cove,

or fellow Dimber mot — an enchanting

girl Ding — to throw away Ding boy — a rogue, knave,

or sly fellow Dinger — a pickpocket, or

thief Dipper —anabaptist Dock yarder — a skulk in any

sly place Doctors — false dice Doff — to uncover, take your

hat off Dollop — a handfull Dominic — a parson Done brown, — done over,

queered, floored Donovans — potatoes Donkey's ears — a false collar Don't name 'ems — breeches Don't know what to call'ems

— inexpressibles, breeches Dorse — a place of rest Douse the glim— blow out

the light

Doughey — a baker

Down — fly, awake, knowing

Down in the mouth — having nothing to say, low spi- rited

Doxy — girl of the town

Dozing cribb — a sleeping room

Drag — a cart, or waggon

Drap — a drop

Draw it mild — geitlv

Draw latches — ro&jers of houses

Drawers — -stockings

Drawing a cork — giving a bloody nose

Drawing a thimble — picking a pocket of a watch

Drawing a wiper — picking a pocket of a handkerchief

Drawing a long bow — telling a lying story for truth

Dromedary — a clumsy thief, a young beginner

Drop — the squeezer at New- gate

Drops — who go about to public houses to cheat un- wary countrymen at cards

Droppings — heavy wet, beer

Dub — a key

Dub the jigger — fasten the door

Dubber — a picker of locks

Duds — togs, clothes

Duds cheat — ragged, poor

Duffers — swindlers, who go about with articles pre- tending they are smuggled and to sell them at an ap- parently cheap rate

PLASH DICTIONARY.

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Dummy — a itupid fellow,one who has nothing to say lor himself

Duke of limbs — a deformed person

Dunnaken — if it be necessary to explain the word — a privy

Dupe — a victim to artifice and misrc presentation

Durance viie — prison

Dutch reckoning— bad reck- oning

Dust — money

Dustman — sleep, or drowsi- ness

E.

Earwig - a crony, a close friend

Earth stoppers — horses feet

Elbow shaker — a dice rat- tler, a gambler

English Burgundy — strong beer

Eriffs — young thieves in training

Eve droppers — vagabonds who rob hen roosts

F.

Facer— a blow on the face,

a bumper Fadge- -a farthing Fag — to ill use, to work hard Fakements — scraps, morsels, Fast trotters — good horses,

rum prads Fam — a ring

Fams, or fambles — hands Fancy—the ton of low life C

Farmer — an alderman Fastener — a warrant Faulkner — a juggler, a tum- bler Fawney — a ring Feck, to — to discover which

is the safest way of ob

taining stolen goods Feeder — a spoon Feint — pawnbroker Felt— a hat Fem — a hole Fence — a receiver cf stolen

goods Fencing ken — a house where

stolen goods are deposited Feret — a pawnbroker Fib — to fight, to box Fibbing — pummelling a head

while in chancery Flick me some panea and cas-

sau — cut me some bread

and cheese Fiddler — a sixpence Fiddle — watchman's rattle Fiery snorter — a red nose Field-lane duck — a baked

sheep's head Fig out — to dress Figure — a little boy put in at

a window to hand goods

to his accomplices Filcher — a thief File, a rum — an odd fellow Filch — to steal Fin — arm Fishfag — a woman that sells

fish Fishhooks — the fingers Fives — the fingers Fives, a bunch of— the fist

the hand closed

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FLASH DICTIONARY.

Flag — groat, fburpence Flame — a bit of muslin, a

sweetheart Flankey — the behind, the

part you sit on Flash of lightning — a glass

of gin Flash — language used by

thieves, gypsies ; to sport Flashman, — a prostitute's

bully Flash cove — the keeper of a

place for the reception of

stolen goods Flashing his gab — showing

off his talk Flash his ivory —showing off

his teeth Flat — a raw, an inexperi- enced fellow, a fool Flat-catcher — pd article to

dupe the public Fleec'd — clean-d out, stript Flick — to cut Flicker — a drinking glass Flimsies — Bank of England

notes Flipper — the hand Floatingacademy — the hulks

at Woolwich, for convicts Flogger — a whip Floored — knock'd down Floorers — fellows who throw

people down in the street,

&c. when their companions

under the pretence of as- sisting, rob them Flowers of society — the or-

laments of high life, uig-

*ees

, acquainted with

Flyers — shoes

Flying colours, to come off with — to come off with luck, to do any thing with advantage to yourself

Flue faker — a chummy, a sweep

Fogle — pocket handkerchief

Fogo — stink

Fog — smoke

Fogus — tobacco

Fogay — a stupid fellow

Footing — money paid by a prostitute when going among her companions, also money paid on enter- ing into any trade or call- ing amongst mechanics

Fork — a pickpocket

Fork it out — to produce any thing by the hand

Forks — fore and middle fin- gers

Fresh water bay - Fleet-mar- ket

Frisk — mischief

Frontispiece- -the face

Frow — a prostitute

Frummdgem'd — choked, or hang'd

Frumper — sturdy blade

Fu !ge — gammon

Fuller's earth — gin

Fumbles — gloves

Funk — stew, to fret

Funk — to cheat, alarm, tc smoke, stink

Funkers — the very lowest op der of thieves

FLASH DICTIONARY.

G.

Gab— the mouth Gaff — a faii- Gaffing— tossing with the

pie -man Gag, high — on the whisper,

nosing, telling secrets Gag, low — the last degree of beggary ; to ask alms in the streets with a preten- ded broken limb Gage— a quart pot Cagglers coach — a hurdle Gaiters; blacklegs, gamblers Galligaskins — breeches Gams — the legs Game — courageous, sturdy,

hearty, hardened Gammon — falsehood or bom- bast Gammoners — cheats, swind- lers Gan — the mouth Gape seed — any thing that

attracts the sight

Garnish — money demanded

of people entering into

prison

Gay tyke boys — dog fanciers

Gee — su table ; that won't

gee, won't do Gelter — money Gentry cove — a gentleman Gentry ken — a gentleman's

house George, y 'How — a guinea George — a half-crown piece Gig — fun, nonsense, ready,

on the alert Gill — a cove, fellow Gills — cheeks

Gin spinner — proprietor of

a "in shop Ginny — an instrument to lift up a grate, in order to steal what articles are in the window

Giving turnips — to cut ac- quaintance, to shun any body

Glazier — one that breaks windows and show glasses in order to steal goods ex- posed for sale

Glibe — a writing

Glim — the candle, or light

Glims — peepers, eyes

Glims flashy — a person in a passion

Giim Jack — a link boy

Glimstick — a candlestick

Glim fenders — hand irons

Gloak — a man

Glue — the lady's fever, ve- nereal disease

Gnostics — knowing ones

Go it — ke« p on

Go slow — draw it mild, easy

Go by — to rise by superior force, turn the tables against you

Gob stick — a silver table spoon

God permit — a stage coach

Goggles — the eyes

Goldfinch — yellow boy, gold coin

Gone to pot — become poor in circumstances, gone to the dogs

Goose, to — to hiss like a goose

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FLASH DICTIONARY.

Goth, A — a fool, an idiot

Grabb — snatch

Grab the bit — to seize the money

Grabbed — taken, or appre- hended

Grand strut— Rotten Row, Bond Street

Grand twig — in prime stile

Grannum gold — old hoarded coin

Gravel digger — a sharp-toed dancer

Gravel tax — money robbed from people on the high- way

Grease — money

Greek — St,Giles's, slang lan- guage

Greeks — gamblers,blacklegs

Green bag — lawyer

Green — raw, unlearned

Greenhorn — a sponge, a raw countryman

Grig — nit j i y fellow, merry companion

Grinders — the teeth

Groaners — a sort of wretches who attend meetings, sigh- ing and looking demure ; in the meantime their pals pick the pockets of those persons who may be in the same pew with them. — They also rob the congre- gation of their watches, as :they are coming out of church ; exchange their bad hats for good ones — jocosely called hat making; steal piayer-books, &c;

also fellows who go round with street preachers,who while the mock parson is preaching, they pick the pockets of the listeneis j Groat — a flag, four-pence I Grogham — a horse Gropers — blind men Gropusses — the pockets Ground sweat — to be buried Grub — provender, victuals Grub and bub — victuals and

drink Grunter — a pig- Grunter — a bob, shilling Guinea pig — a fellow who receives a guinea for puff- ing off an unsound horse Gull — to cheat,circumvent Gulpin — a raw, a yokel, un- learned Gum — abusive language Gunpowder — an old woman Gutter lane — the throat Gutting a quart pot — drink* ing a pot of beer

H. Hack — a hackney coach Half and half — half seas over

tipsy Halt a bull — half a crown Haifa hog — half a shilling Haifa grunter — sixpence Half nap — venture, hesita- tion Hams — breeches Hammering — excessive hea- vy thumps with the fists Hamlet — high constable Hand over — to bribe

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dence not to appear against a culprit, to drop an argu- ment, an action

Handle the ribbing, to knock the ribs about

Hang it up —to leave a rec- koning unpaid at a public house

Handle — a tool, a silly fel- low

Hard up — in a queer way, money all gone

Harman — a constable

Harmans — the stocks

Havannah, under a canopy of— sittingwhere there are many persons smoking to- bacco

Hawks — swindlers, sharpers

Hawks — an advantage

Hear any thing knock — do you take the hint

Hearing cheats— ears

Heave — to rob

Heavy brown — beer

Heavy plodders — Stock bro- kers

Hedge taverns, public houses on the road side, little fre- quented by travellers

Heavers — breasts

Hedge creeper* — ihe mean- est" order of thieves

Hedge bird — mean scoundrel

Hedge — to secure a bet by betting on the contrary side

Hedge off— slink otT to avoid serious consequences

Hell— a gambling house

Hell cat— a lewd abandoned woman

Hell hound — profligate im- pudent fellow

Hempen casement — a halter

Hempen furniture — money rewards for convicting fe- lons by thief takers and others; commonly called blood money

Hempen widow — a woman whose husband has been hanged

Hen — woman

Hick Jop — a bumpkin, a fool

Hick Sam — a country fellow, a fool

High pads — thieves, or foot- pads, who rob on the high- way on foot, of the same class as scamps and spicers

High flyer — an audacious, impudent « onian

High tide — having plenty of money

High tobers — the highest or- der of thieves, who rob on ihe highway, well dressed, and mounted on fine horses

High gloak — well dressed highwayman

High jinks — gamblers, a set of fellows who keep little goes, take in insurances; also attendants at the E.O. tables, and at the races ; fellows always on the loa ouf. to rob unwary conn trymon at cards

Hob — a bumpkin, a clod- hopper

Hobbled on the leg — a trans- ported felon ironed on the C 3

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leg, and sent on board the hulks

Hog — a shilling

Hog grubber — a sneaking mean fellow, a cadger

Hog grunter — a close-sifted, narrow-souled, mean fel- low

Hoisters — shop-lifters, fel- lows who go into shops, and under the pretence of buying goods, generally conceal some article un- der the sleeves of the coat, mostly frequenting jewel- ler's shops

Hoister mots — women who go into shops and steal some small article

Holy land — St. Giles's, from St. Giles being thepat-ron saint of beggars

Hoofs — the feet

Hoof it — to walk

Hooked — overreached

Hookers — thieves

Hop, a sixpenny — a dancing roomwhere sixpence is the price of admission

Hop merchant — a dancing master

Hop the twig — run away

Harness — watchmen, consta- bles, police officers

Hot flannel — liquor made of beer and gin, with eggs, sugar, and nutmeg

Hue — to whip, lash

Huff— a bullying cowardly, fellow

Huggar — drunk

Hum box — pulpit

Hum — a liar, a canting de- ceitful Wesley an methodist

Hum — to humbug, deceive

Hums — people. at church

Humpty dumpty — boiled ale and brandy

Hunting — drawing unwary people to play

Hush still — qu'et

Hush money — money given to compound felony

Huskey lour — a guinea, gold coin

Index — the face

Ignoramus — a stupid fellew a novice

Inexpressibles — breeches

Ingle boxers — jacks tipped with silver, and hung with bells

Ingler — horse dealer of bad character

Interlopers — lazy fellowswho are dependent on the ge- nerosity of their friends for support

Irish apricots — potatoes

Irish evidence — false witness

Irish legs — thick legs

Iron doublet — a parson

Iron — money

Itch land — Scotland

Ivories — the teeth

Jack — a farthing

Jack Adams — a muflf, stupid

fellow Jack at a pinch — a hackney

parson

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Jack in a box — a sharper, a cheat

Jack cove — a sloven, dirty fellow

Jack-a-dandy— a little im- pertinent fellow

Jack pudding—merry An- drew, a clown

Jacken closer — a seal

Jacob — a ladder

Jacobites — sham or collar shirts

Jackrum — license for mar- riage

Jam — gold ring

Jarvey— hackney coachman

Jasey — a wig

Jaw — abusive language

Jehu — a coachman

Jemmy — twopenny, head

Jenny — a pick-lock

Jet — a lawyer

Jet Autem — a parson

Jew — an over-reaching fel- low

Jig — a trick

Jigger — a door, bolt, or pri- vate still

Job — guinea

Jobber knot — a tall stupid fellow

Jock gagger — fellows who live on the prostitution of their wives, &c.

Joe — an imaginary per- son, nobody ; as, Who do those things belong to i Joe

J oiler head — a heavy dull blustering landlord

Jones's, Mrs. — the coflee house, privy

K.

Kate — a picklock

Keep up the ball — to live & be jolly

Keep the line, to — to behave with decorum

Ken — a cribb, room

Ken-cracker — house breaker

Ken Bowman — a well-fur- nished house

Ken, flash — a house where thieves and vagrants re- sort

Ken miller — house breaker

Kick — sixpence

Kick — to borrow money, to ask a favour

Kick the bucket — to expire

Kicksies — breeches

Kid — a fellow thief

Kiddies — flash fellows

Kid lays — villains who de- fraud boys of their parcels and goods

Kiddiess — a slap up well- dressed girl

Kid, with — pregnant

Kid-nappers — fellows who steal children, and decoy countrymen and strangers in the street, to rob them ; also recruiting crimps.

Kidwy — a hief's child

Kill devil — new rum, from its pernicious quality

Kinchin — a young child

Kimbau — to defraud, cheat

King's mots — female chil- dren carried on the backs of strollers and beggars to excite the pity of the public

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King's picture — king's head on gold coin

Kinchin coves — fellows who steal children for gypsies, beggars, &c.

Knacker — an old good for nothing horse

Knife it — stow it, be quiet

Knight — a poor silly fellow

Knight of the awl — a snob, cobler

Knight of the hod — a brick- layer's labourer

Knight of the road — a high- wayman

Knight of the brush and moon — a drunken fellow

Knight of the post — a per-

I jurer, false swearers, fel- lows employed to give false evidence

Knight of the blade — a bul- lying sham captain, abrag- gadocia

Knights of the rainbow — waiters, footmen, lacqueys

Knowledge box — the jemmy, head

Knuckles — pickpockets

Knuckle dabs — ruffles

Ky-bosh on, lo put the— to turn the tables on any per- son, to put out of counte- nance

L.

Lady-bird, — a sweetheart,

bed-fellow Laced woman — a virtuous

female Lady's man — an obsequious

fellow to females

Lady in mourning — holten-

tot girl Lig — to transport Lagged — transported a per

on the water Lame ducks — defaulters at

the Stock Exchange Lambskin men — the judges Lantern, dark — a servant or

agent that receives a bribe

to conceal a robbery Lap — butter-milk, whey Lap, rum — good liquor Lap, queer — bad liquor Lap feeder — a spoon Lapping your congou

drinking your tea Lark — a bit of mischief, fun Leading-strings — the con- trol of friends Leery — fly, up, acquainted Leerers — the eyes Left, over the — no go, it

wont do Leg bail — running away Leg o'mutton sleeves — large

sleeves worn by the ladies Levanters — persons who run

away from their debts of

honour Lib — to live together Lib ken — lodging house Libbege — a bed Lifter — a robber of shops Ligating a candle — sneaking

out of a public house with

out paying the reckoning Light blue — gin Lightning — gin Lightning, a noggen of — a

quartern of gin

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Lightments — the day

Lil — a pocket book

Lily white — a snowball, a black, a chimney sweep

Limbo — prison

Line, getting into a — con- fusing a person, imposing on any body's belief by joking

Lingo — slang, language

Link it — turn it out

Lipish — saucy

List, or Loist — shop-lifting, robbing a shop

Little Barbary — Wapping

Litile shillings — love money

Lively kid — a funny fellow, a brave man

Loap'd — run away

Lob — money till

Lob — an easy foolish fellow

Lob lolly — a queer cooked mess

Lob's pound — a prison

Lobsters — sold iers

Lock — a warehouse for the reception of stolen goods

Lock, rum — being in good health; rich, clever, ex- pert

Locksmith's daughter — key

Loge — a watch

Loose house — round house, or cage

Lord — a deformed, hump- backed person

Lour — money

Low- water mark — having lit- tle money

Lugs, or listeners — the ears

Lully — wet linen

Lullaby cheat — an infant

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Lully priggers — the lowest order of thieves, who de- coy children to some bye place' and rob them of their clothes

Lully snow prigging — steal- ing wet linen from hedges

Lumber ken — a pawnbro- ker's shop

Lumber the ticker — to pawn a watch

Lurch, in the — to be left be- hind, to sneak, to hang on

Lush cribs — sluicery's, gin shops

Lush — drink

Lush ken — an alehouse

Lushingtons — drunkards

M.

Mace — to rob, steal

Mackry — the country

Mad Toms of Bedlam — fel- lows who counterfeit mad- ness in the streets, and alter beating themselves about, spit out some bloodp in order to convince the too feeling multitude that they have injured them- selves by violent struggles, and so obtain relief: they have a small bladder of sheep's blood in their mouth, and when they choose can discharge it.

Made — stolen

Mag — halfpenny

Make, to — to steal

Malty coves — beer drinkers

Mary-la-bone kick — a kick in the belly

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Marrowbones — the knees

Mat macers — fellows and old women who go round in a morning when the servants are cleaning the doorways and steal the mats, Sec.

Maunder — beggar

Maundering — begging

Maims, tip us your — give me your hand

Mawley — the fist

Mawmouth — one that splut- ters in his talk

Max — gin

Mazzard — the head

Mest — to spend

Middle-piece — the stomach

Mill — thump, fight

Mill the glaze — breaking windows or lamps

Mill the ken — break open the house

Mill his not) — break his head

Mill clapper — a woman's tongue

Milldoll — to beat hemp in Bridewell

Miller — a boxer

Missing — courting; to be gone, or away

Misstopper — coat and petti- coat

Mizzle — go, begone

Moabites — bailifts and their crew

Mog — a He

Moisten your chaffer — drink

Monish, tip us the — give me the money

Monkey up — being in a vio- lent passion

Mo pus — a halfpenny Moon curses — link boys Moonshine — nonsense, flum- mery Morriss of! — to run away Mother— a name lor the

keeper of a brothel Mother's milk — rum boose,

good liquor Mots — cyprians, whores Mount —to give false evi- dence Mounter — a common perju- ror, villains who give false evidence and become bail for fellows of their own stamp Mouth — a stupid fellow, a

novice Move — an incident, an action

in life Mower — a cow Muck— money Muck, to — to clean out, to

win all a person's money Muck'd — lost all at play, no

money left Mud pipes— thick boots Muff — a raw, a silly fellow Mufflers — sparring gloves Mug — the face Mugs, cutting of — making

faces Mullygrubs — the belly ache Mummer — the mouth M jmmers— strolling players mountebank speakers, gyp- sies, and beggars who tell pitiful stories to excite compassion Muns — mouth

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Mumbling cove -a sturdy ill-natured landlord, shab- by fellow

Murphie- — potatoes

Muzzle — the mouth

N. Nab— to steal Nabb'd — taken Nail — to lay hold Natty lads — young thieves Nash — to bolt, to run away Needfull — money Never wag, man of war — the

Fleet Prison Neat thing — good liquor Nab — a hat Nabs — a person of either sex;

a familiar way of talking;

as, How are yon, my

Nabs? Nab the bib — to cry and wipe

the eyes Nab the rust — to receive the

money Nab the noge — to receive a

guinea Nab the clout — steal a hand- kerchief Nab the cramp — having sent

tence of death passed Nab the bung — to receive a

purse >ask — a prison Napper, or Naps — a sheep-

s ealer Nap per — the head Ne'er a face but his own —

not a farthing in his pocket

-wli k.% or Noolucks — a ers on not known, an ima-

ginary being, said to be a kin to Joe, Cheeks, &c

Nibble — thieve, steal

Nicks — nothing

Nim — to steal

Nimmer — a thief of the low- est order

Niggers — fellows who clip and file the gold coin

Nig — clipping of money

Nick it — to win a wager

Nip — a cheat

Nipperkin — half pint mea- sure

Nix, or nix my doll — nothing

No go — it won't do, a bad experiment

Nob — the head

Nob — a head : a fellow car- rying a high head, a man of money, of respectabi- lity

Nob thatcher — a hat maker

Nob, old — a favourite game used by sharpers, called pricking in the hat

Nobbers — blows, thumps

Noddle — empty headed, shal- low pated, stupid

Noll — a wig

Noodle — a sawney

Norway neckcloth — the pil- lory

Norfolk capon — a soldier, a red herring

Nose, a — one who splits or tells

Nose, to — to expose, tell

Nozzle — the nose

Nub — the neck

Nubbing — hanging

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Nubbing cove — the fctogmair Nubbing ken— Uie sessions

house Nubbing cheat — the gallows Nail gropers — people who sweep the streets in search of old iron, nails, &c. Nunnery — a brothel Nurse — to cheat Nutty — fond

Nut crackers — the pillory Nutmeg grater — the beard

O.

Oak — a rich man of credit,

substance Office — warning, notice Ogles — the eyes Ogles in mourning — black eyes

Ogles, rum — fine piercing eyes

Oil of palm — money

Old One, or Old Harry- names for the devil

Old Tom — good gin

Old toast — a bri.sk lively old man

Oliver — the moon

Oliver widdles — the moon shines

Oliver sneaks — the moon hid under a cloud, has got his upper Ben on

Oli compoli — a rogue of the canting crew

On the pot — being in trouble vexrd

On the mallet — having goods on trust

One two — two blows suc- ceeding each other

One in ten — a parson

Optics — the eyes

Operators — pickpockets

Os chives, bone handleknives

Outandouter — arum'un, a good fellow at any thing, a trump

Ousted — turned out, thrown.

Over the left— it won't do,' no go

Over the bender — over the bridge

Overseer— a fellow in the pillory

Owlers — runners and smug- glers of wool

P.

Pad —a highwayman who

robs on foot Pad it— to walk Palm — to fee, to hand over Pali i aid — beggars who bor row children, the bette. to obtain charity Panum— victuals Panum struck — very hungry wanting something to eat Pan tier — a butler Param — bread

Parings — clippings of money Panter — heat Pat — an accomplice or com

panion Patter — slang f

Patter slang — to talk flash * Pattered — ti ied in a court or

justice for felony Pave — the pathway Paviers workshop, the stree Peck and boose — victuals and drink

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Peel — to strip

Peeper — looking glass

Peepers — eyes

Peel your skin — strip, pull

offyour clothes Peery — suspicious Pes a hack— to drive aback*

ney coach Peg, or peg stick — a bender,

a shilling Peg tantrums — dead Penance board — pillory Persuaders — cudgels or spurs Peter — a trunk Peteress — persons who make

it their business to steal

boxes from the lacks of

coaches, chaises, and other

carriages Pewter — money Pewter, to unload — to drink

porter out of a quart pot Philistines — bailiffs and their

crew Phizog. — the face Pickling tubs — Wellington,

or top boots Picture frame — the gallows,

or pillory Pig — a sixpence Pigman — a trap, or bailiff Pigeon — a meek stupid easy

fellow Pike off — run away Pinch — to steal money under

pretence of getting change

see Ringing the changes Pimple — the head Pinks of fashion — dashing

fellows Pins— t\vi gams, legs

Pippin — funny fellow, friend ly way of expressing one's self, as * How are you, my Pippin ?'

PiauKet — concealed

Pockets to let — empty pock ets, no money

Point non plus — neither mo- ney nor credit

Poke fun — to chaff, joke

Poke — a bag, or sack

Poker — a sword

Poney — money

Pop— to pledge or pawn

Poplers — mess of pottage

Poppers — pistols

Potato, drop it like a — to drop any thing suddenly

Potato trap — the mouth

Potato, red hot, take a — a word by way of silencing a person, a word of con- tempt

Pol scum — bad or stinking dripping

Pothooks and hangers— short hand characters

P's & Q's, mind your — mind what you're at

Poundage cove — a fellow who receives poundage for procuring customers for damaged goods

Prad — a horse

Prancers — horses

Prate roast —a loquacirus fellow

Pratt — buttocks

Piicking in the wicker for a dolphin — stealing bread from a baker's basket D

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Prigs — thieves and pickpoc- kets

Prime twig — high condition

Prog — victuals

Prog, ram — good victuals

Prog, queer — bad victuals

Property — an easy fellow, a tool made use of to serve any purpose, a cat's paw

Provender — a person from whom any money is taken on the high road

Pudding house — the work- house

Pull — having the advantage over an adversary

Pull out — come it strong

Punch — a blow

Punish — to beat in fighting

Punisher — one who beats soundly

Pupil's straits— school tui- tion

Purgatory, trouble, perplex-

« ity

Purl, royal — ale and gin

made warm Purse — a sack Put — a country fellow, silly,

foolish Putty and soap — bread and

cheese

Q.

Quarroms — a body

O'leer — base, doubtful, good fov nothing, bad

Queer bit makers — coiners

Queer buffer — sharp inn kee- per

Queer street, to be in — in a quandary

Queer cove — a rogue, villain Queer ogles — squinting eyes Queer patter — foreign talk Queer rotar — a bad iil-look

ing coach Queer rag — ill-looking mo- ney, base coin Queer blowing — ugly wench Queer gill — suspicious fellow Queer plungers, fellows who

pretend to be drowned Queer cole makers — coiners

of bad money Queer lap — bad liquor Queer beak — strict justice,

upright judge Queer rag — bad farthing Queer bit — counterfeit mo- ney Queer lully — deformed child Queer tats — false dice Queer vinegar — worn out

woman's cloak Queer belch — sour beer Queer cove — a turnkey Queer bid — insolvent shar- pers, who make a practies of bailing persons arrested Queer cat lap — bad tea Queer chum — a suspicious

companion Queer pops — bad pistols Queer put— an ill-looking

foolish fellow Queer thimble — good for

nothing watch Queer hen — a bad woman Quota — whacks, share Quod cull— a goal keeper Quail pipe — woman's tongue Queer prad — broken-knee'd horse

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Queer lambs — bad dice Queer Nantz — bad brandy Queer nicks — breeches worn

out Queer dosren — rusty sword Queer buffer — a cur Queer barmen beak — a strict

beadle Queer gum — outlandish talk Queer glim — a bad light Queer ken — a gentleman's house without the furni- ture Queer doxy — a clumsy wo- man Queer booze — bad beer Queer amen curler — a drun- ken parish clerk Qui (am — a shark, lawyer Qui vive — on the alert, in

expectation Quid — a goldfinch, sovereign Quiz — a queer one, a gig, an

aboriginal Quod — prison

R.

Radical — Hunt's breakfast

powder, roasted corn Rag — money; I've no rag,

meaning I've no notes Rag — blow up, rap out, scold Rainbow — a tailor's pattern

book Rainbows — gay young bucks Rain napper — an umbrella Rap — I'm not woith a rap,

I've got no money Rap — give evidence, take

false oath Rap out — to swear, blow up,

be in a passion

Rat — drunken man orwoman taken in custody for break- ing the lamps Rattling cove — a hackney

coachman Rattl ing gloak, a simple easy

fellow Rattling mumpers — beggars

who ply coaches Ready — money Reader — a pocket-book Red rag — the tongue Red rag, give your, a holi- day— hold your tongue Red tape — Cogniac, brandy Regular — in proper course Regulars — persons thus call- ed from their leaving par- ties of pleasure at eleve or twelve o'clock at night, to the no small discomfi- ture of many an out-and outer Regent — half a sovereign Resurrection men, — fellows who steal dead bodies from the church yard for the surgeons j Rhino — grease, money | Ribbon — money j Ridge — gold outside of a watch, or other article Ridge cove — a wealthy gold- smith Riff raff— black beetles, the

lower order of people Rig — fun, game, diversion Rig out — a suit of clothes Rig conoblin — cutting the string of large coals hang- ing at the door of coal sheds D f

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Rigging-— ciot hi ng

Right and fiy — complete

Ring — to exchange one ar- ticle for another

Rise, a — a disturbance

River tic&, tradesmens books

Riviss- — money

Roger — a portmanteau

Rolled up — put in a spung- ing house

Romoners — felloes pretend- ing to be acquainted with the occult sciences, for- tune tellers

Rome ville — London

Rookery — an ill furnished bouse

Roses — nobility

Rotan — a coach

Rot gut,— swankey, small beer

Row — disturbance, fand in the ken to breed a row'

Roysters, — noisy turbulent fellows, rude vile singers

Roundyken, the watch house

Rumpus — a scuffle

Rub — an obstacle in theway, to run away, to make off

Rub out when i!s dry — all right when its forgotten

Huffman — any person who handles a thief roughly ; the wood, hedges

Rugg — all right and safe

Rug carrier — an ensign

Rum blowing — a handsome girl

Rum hopper -a waiter at a tavern

Rum mot — a woman of the town

j Rum bod — a shop till Rum peepers — fine looking

glasses, or bright eyes Rum speaker — good booty Rum job, or rum dagen — a

handsome sword Rum quids — guineas Rum pad — the high road Rum maundy — t el lows who counterfeit the fool, going about the streets in order to obtain charity Rum kicks — breeches Rum file, or rum diver — a fe

male pickpocket Rum glimmer — head of the

link boy Rum bodick — diity shabby

fellow Rum beak — sensible justice Rum doxy — fine made wench Rum drawers — silk stockings Rum gloak — well dressed

man Rum N'antz — good brandy Rum ghelt,or rum cole — new

money Rum squeeze — wine orother

liquor given to fiddlers Rum prancer — fine horse Rum rufe peck — Westpha- lia ham Rum prad — a highwayman's

horse Rum duke — queer old fellow,

rich man Rum gill — a man who ap- pears to have plenty o« money Rum rush — a number of vil- lains rushing into a house in order to rob it

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Rum gutters — cape wine Rum quid— good guinea Rum chaunt — good song Rum booze — good wine, or

any liquor Rum buffer— valuable dog Rum cly — a full pocket Rum feeder— large silver ta- ble spoon Rum gaggers— ~ cheats who

tell wonderful stories of

their sufferings at sea, in

order to obtain money Rum dropper — a vintner Rum cove — good natured

landlord Rum fun — sharp trick Rum bung — full purse Rum bow — rope stolen from

any of the king's dock-yard Rum clout — handkerchief Rum bluffer — a jolly host Rum bleating cheat — a fat

sheep Rum back — good natured

Irishman Rum barking irons — prime

pistols Rum dumber — good natused

prince of the canting crew Rum quod cull — a gaoler Hum, or monogin — good, the

most valuable of any thing

jewels, diamonds Hum un — a trump, a good

fellow Rum ti turn with the chill

°S — good, slap up, the

tippy, excellent Ryder —a cloak

d a

s.

Sack — a pocket

Sack, to — to take up

Sam — a foolish fellow an idiot

Sam, to stand — to pay for all

Sangaree — rack punch

Sans prisado — a person wtw comes into company with- out any money

Saving one's bacon — to es- cape with a whole skin, to evade any accident

Seedy; poor, miserable look- ing, without money

Scamp — a thief

Setter — persons using the haunts of thieves in order to give information for the reward

Seven-pence, to stand — to suffer seven years trans- portation

Sew up the sees — to give a person two black eyes

Scandal broth — tea

Scamp foot — a street robber

Scent box — the nose

School butter — whipping

Scot — a savage person

Scotch fiddle — itch

Scottish — savage, wild, cha- grined

Score — a debt, fine

Scout — a watchman or beadle

Screwbado — a dirty fellow insignificant

Scroof — to go about living with friends at their ex* pence

Scran — victuals

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Scrap — a villanous scheme Screw — a miser Screw loose — a quarrel be- tween two individuals, something- wrong in a man's affairs Screen — a pound note Sharps — persons ready to take you in on all occasions Shake a toe — to dance Shark — a lawyer Shade, nice to a — very par- ticular She lion — a shilling Shell — to contribute, club Sherry — run away, be gone Sheriff's ball — an execution Shindy — a regular row, a

general quarrel Shiners — guineas Shirk — to cut, to skulk Shop — a gaol

Shop lobber — a dressed up silly coxcomb of a shop- man^a powdered fop Shopped — imprisoned Shoot — to go skulking about Shooting the cat — vomiting Shove — crowd, nush Shove the tumbler — whipped

at the cart's tail Shove in the mouth — a glass

of gin Shoving the moon — moving

goods by moonlight Shoulder knot — a bailiff Shuffle — go, nioi! -iss, begone Slum — gammon, sham Shv cock — a person afraid

of a bailiff Siester — a nap after dinner. a short sitep

Sidle — come close to

Signers — See Groaners

Sight, take a — a manner of expressing contempt or ri- dicule, by putting the thumb to the nose, with the fingers straight up in the air

Sight — a lot, a great many, a great deal

Sinkers — old stockings that have sunk the small parts into the heel

Sipper — a tea spoon

Six and eight -pence — a law- yer

Sink hole — the throat

Skewer — a sword

Skin — a purse

Skinners — villains who steal children ; kidnappers who entrap unwary men to en- list for soldiers

Sky parlour — a garret, or first floor next the sky

Slang — flash language, pat- ter

Slanged— ironed on one leg

Slap bang — victuals sold at a cook shop

Slate — a sheet

Sling tale and galena — fowl and pickle pork

Slipped cove — got away

Slogg — to thump hard

Slogger — a miller, a boxer

Siuicei y — a gin shop

Sluiced* their gobs— drinb heartily

Sluice — wet; moisten

Slubber — a heavy stupid fei low

FLASH DICTIONARY.

31

Sty — contraband

Smack the bit — share the booty

Smart blunt — forfeit money

Smart — regular, up, awake

Smashing cove — housebrea- ker

Smash — tobreak, strike, also bad coin

Smash, a thigh of mutton and — leg of mutton, tur- nips, and capers

Smasher — passer of bad mo- ney

Smelt — half a guinea

Smell a rat — to surmise some thing

Smeller — the nose

Smitter — the arm

Smicket — a shift

Smug — steal, nibble

Snaffle — highwayman

Sneak, on the morning — sneaking down into the kitchen, &c. just as the servants are up, and pur- Joining any small at tides, commonly practised by cadgers

Sneezer — the nose

Snitch, to turn -to nose, to tell tales, to turn a sneak

Snorter- the nose

Snooze- to sleep, doze

Snoozing ken —a sleeping room

Snow ba\l — a black man

Snuffle — the nose

S.mgc- — thief under a bed

Solomon — the mass

Some tiiti^ — a large amount

Something short — a glass of liquor

Soul driver methodist par- son

South sea mountain — gin

Speck, a bad — a bad under- taking

Specks, barnacles, spectacles

Spicer — footpad robber

Spicer, high — highwayman

Spike hotel — the Fleet, or King's Bench

Spilt — overturned in a car- riage

Spittleonian — yellow hand- kerchief

Spoke with — to rob

Spoke to, he's — taken by the officers, cast for death

Spooney — a foolish fellew

Spoil — to bruise, injure

Spree — a lark, fun

Spurs — diggers

Spunge— to eat and drink at another's expence

S quail — a dram

Squeaker— a cross child, also a pot boy

Squeezer— the drop at New- gate

Stach to conceal a robbery

Stoll - help, assistance

Staller — an accomplice in picking of pockets by holding up the arms of persons

Stam fish — to cant

Stand the racket — treat, pay £ov all

Stand the nonsense — pay the money, stand treat

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PLASH DICTIONARY.

Stand still — a table Stale whimper — a bastard Stall — to make a stand? to

crowd Slag" — an accomplice who

has turned king's evidence Slagged — discovered Stalier — an accomplice Stalling ken — broker's shop,

or that of a person recei

ving stolen goods Stampers — feet, shoes, stairs Stark naked — gin Star gazers, prostitutes who

frequent hedge rows Stephen — money Slem, the — the goat, behind,

what we sit upon Stifle a squeaker — to murder

a child Sticks — goods, chattels Stiffner — a letter Stick fans — gloves Sticks — pistols Stone pitcher — Newgate Stoop — the pillory Stow it — drop it, be quiet Stow your whid — be silent Stranger — a guinea Strap — mallet, trust Stiammel — straw Stretching — hanging Straw chipper — a straw bon- net makers Strike — a guinea Strings of onions — the lower

orders of society String, to — to impose on a

person's belief by some

joke or lie Strike me dead — small beer Strummer faker, hair dresser

Stumps — the feet or legs Sucked — devilish drunk Suit of cover me properly—* suit of fashionable clothes Sugar, cock your leg and cry — a way of expressing triumph or joy, by stand- ingon one leg and shaking the other up, hooting ' su- gar' loudly Sufferer — a sovereign, also a

tailor Swaddy — a lobster, soldier Swaddler — a pitiful fellow, a methodist preacher who preaches on the high road, when a number of people are assembled, his accom- plices pick their pockets Swag — a lot, much Swallow — the throat Swankey — swipes,tablebeer Sweeteners, guinea droppers Swell out of iuck — a decayed

fop or dandy Swinger, one leg and a — a sound leg and a lame one Swig — liquor of any kind Swigs men — thieves who tra- vel the country under co- lour of buying old clothes Swindling gloak — a cheat

Tackle — good clothes, akj

a mistress Tag rag and bobtail— ^i

tremes of low life Tail — a sword Tallymen — persons **x% .«•

out clothes to sai>fcH i$

prians

FLASH DICTIONARY.

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Tamarhoo, a hackney coach- man, so called from the song of l Tamarhoo ; or The Devil and the Hack- ney Coachman'

Tanner — sixpence

Tape — gin

Tatt, rum — good dice

Tatt, queer — bad dice

Tatt. men — fellows who get their jiving by attending the gaming tables, and playing at dice

Tater trap — the mummer, mouth

Tatty tog — a gaming cloth

Tattler — watch or clock

Tea-pot — a negro

Teaster — sixpence

Teazer of catgut — a fiddler

Tears of the tankard — drops of liquor

Teaze — to whip at the cart's tail

That's the ticket — just the thing, as it ought to be

The dab's in quod -the rogue's in prison

Thimble — a watch

Three sheets in the wind — three parts drunk

Throw the hatchet, to — to tell a marvellous story, or a lie, and swear its true

Th ; urns — three-pence

Tie — equal

Tiv» of (he buttery — goose

Tibby, one on your — I owe you one

TrV-ke" a *valr,h

TW" £»<ivy good

1 irfiber- atches

Timber merchant — a match

dealer Time o' day — quite rightj

the thing Tinker — sixpence Tip — money Tip — to give Tip your rags a gallop — to

bolt, run away Tip street, to be in — to have

plenty of money Tippy, the — just the thing

as it ought to be Tip top — the highest, best Tits — horses Title-page — the face Tizzy — sixpence To nab a kid — to steal a

child To sing small — to draw the

horns in, to be humbled To mill a bleating cheat — to

kill a sheep To diamond a horse — to put

a stone under the shoe to .

make it appear lame Toddle— to walk Toddlers — legs Tog and kicks — breeches &

coat Togged — dressed Togman — a cloak Togs — -clothes Tol lol — pretty well in

heal th Tolo bon rig — persons who

go about the country tell

ing fortunes by signs, pre- tending to be deaf and

dumb Tolobon — the tongue Tombstones- teeth

84

PLASH DICTIONARY

Tonic — a halfpenny

Tooth pickers — Irish watch- men's shillalies

Topper — a hat

Topping — hanging

Topping cove — hangman

Touted — to be followed, or pursued

Touch — to arrest

Tout — to look out sharp, to guard

Tow street, in — said of a person who is being mis- led or decoyed

To we — ciipt money

Town toddlers — silly fellows taken in by sharpers at play

Town tabby — a dowager of quality

Track — to go

Traps — constables or thief takers

Transporter — the mouth

Tramp — to wander as a beg- gar

Translators — sellers of old boots and shoes

Trib — a prison

Trine — to hang

Trine — the new drop

Trotters — the legs

Trooper — a blowing, prosti- tute

Trooper — half a crown

Trump — a good one, a jolly fellow

Trulls — the lowest order of prostitutes, followers of soldiers

Truck — stealing money un- der pretence of changing

Tuck — victuals

Tuck cut — a good meal, a belyfull

Tuck up fair — Newgate at a hanging time

Tucked up — hanged ; mar- ried

Tumbler — a cart

Turn-up — a casual set-to. a fight

Tulips of the goes — the high- est order of fashionables

Tarter — a queer customer, a powerful enemy

Turnip — a watch

Turkey merchant — driver of turkeys

Twelver — a shilling

Twandlers- — pease

Twig — to see, observe

Twinkiers — the eyes

Twirlers — hawUers of men's and women's clothes

Twittoe — two

Tykes — dogs

Tyke boys — dog owners

Tyro — a yokel, a noviciate

U.

Under the screw — in prison

Under the rose — on the sly, concealed enjoyment

Unload pewter, — drinking beer from pewter pots

Unrigged — stripped of mo- ney and clothes

Up — acquainted with the conversation of the com- pany, apprised of any transaction

Up to slum -humotig or gammon

FLASH DICTIONARY.

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Up the spout — articles at the pawnhrokers

Up the flue — being in trou- ble, on the pot

Upper Benjamin — an upper coat

Uprights — ale-house pots

V.

yamp — to pledge any article

Vampers — stockings

Vhite — gin

Velvet — the tongue

Velvet, to tip the — to talk to a woman, to impose by flowery language

Victualling office — the sto- mach, or paunch

Voil — town

W.

Wapstraw — Johnny Raw, a yokel, a countryman

Wall flowers — old clothes exposed for sale

Wall it — chalking a reckon- ing up at a public house

Wall fruit — kissing against a wall

Warm — rich

Wattles — the ears

Water pads — fellows who rob ships

Water-headed — a snivelling fellow

Wearing the breeches — the wife ruling the husband

Wedge — silver plate

Wet the other eye — take an- other glass

Wetting the neck — drinking

Whacks — shares of booty

Wheadle — a sharper White wood — silver White port — gin Whither — silver bowl Whimpshire — Yorkshire Whiddler — a talkative fellow

an informer Whirligig — the pillory Whistling shop — a public

house in a prison Whisker — a bouncing lie White buzmen — pickpockets White toppers — white hats White tape — gin Whites — counterfeit silver Wiggen — the neck Win — a penny Wipe — fogle, handkerchief Wing — fly, up, acquainted

with Wobble — to reel, drunk Wo ball — a milk woman Wood pecker; a punster

joker ; player on words Wooden ruff — the pillory, as, he wore the wooden run1, he stood in the pil- lory W's, between the two — hit- ting in the belly beiwet-n wind and water Won't suit — no go, it won't do

V. Yack and onions — wdv^iia.id

seals Yam — to eat hearty Yankee— a tawney maj Yard of tape — a glaasoi ^10 Yarmouth capon— a reu ttjr-

ring

ws

FLASH DICTIONARY.

Tarum — food made of milk fellow boys — gold finches,

sovereigns Yellcwman — a yellow hand- kerchief

Yelper — a fellow who makes pitiful lamentations of trifles

Yokels — green horns, coun- trymen

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Out-and-outers Coiners Macers Swigs men Bully rocks lAilly priggers Ginglers Ken coves Bully huffs Starrers Strollers Mounters Shop lifters Swadiers Sweeteners Clapper dogens Cloak twitcher3 Upright men Dubs men Forkers Bnl lies A ntem men Beau nappers Badgers Ca Igers Beau traps

31. Twirlers 3*2. Gammoners

33. Groaners

34. Fencers

35. Spicers

S?i. High topers H7. Footpads 3S- Gamblers 89- Swindlers

40. Shoplifters

41. .Sturdy beggars

42. Pad priggers

43. Money lenders

44. Ken crackers

45. Queer culls

46. Rushers

47. Fawney coves

48. Divers

49. Adam iglers

50. Knackers

51. Millers

52. Smashers 5%. Filers

54. Gypsies

55. Buffers

56. Priggers

57. Rum padde? 5S. G aggers

59 Dragsmen 60. Blooas

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