Thieves Dictionary, 12mo. It abounds in cant, and the language of "gig, " as it was then often termed. SMIGGINS, soup served to convicts on board the hulks. BLACK AND WHITE, handwriting.
TIKE, or BUFFER LURKING, dog stealing. POLONY, a Bologna sausage. Boned, seized, apprehended. The Dutch use the word KAST in a vulgar sense for a house, i. e., MOTTEKAST, a brothel. GIFFLE GAFFLE, nonsense. DIES, last dying speeches, and criminal trials. SCRAPING CASTLE, a water-closet. Attractive fashionable man in modern parlance crossword. FLANNEL, or HOT FLANNEL, the old term for gin and beer, drank hot, with nutmeg, sugar, &c. Also called FLIP. Another, even more intensitive form, is "first-class, letter A, No.
It was given out in advertisements, &c., as a piece of puff, that it was edited by a Dr. Clarke, but it contains scarcely a line more than Grose. This ancient cant word now survives in the phrase, "to swear like a CUTTER. TWOPENNY, the head; "tuck in your TWOPENNY, " bend down your head. Attractive fashionable man in modern parlance. MOONLIGHT, or MOONSHINE, smuggled gin. To JOE BLAKE THE BARTLEMY, to visit a low woman. Sometimes they get off with it by wrapping it round their bodies. TROLLING, sauntering or idling.
ON THE SHELF, to be transported. "are you going out of town? " CUT, to run away, move off quickly; to cease doing anything; CUT AND RUN, to quit work, or occupation, and start off at once; to CUT DIDOES, synonymous with to CUT CAPERS; CUT A DASH, make a show; CUT A CAPER, to dance or show off in a strange manner; CUT A FIGURE, to make either a good or bad appearance; CUT OUT, to excel, thus in affairs of gallantry one Adonis is said to "cut the other out" in the affections of the wished for lady; CUT THAT! The commonalty dislike frequently occurring words difficult of pronunciation, and so we have the street abridgments of BIMEBY for by and by, CAZE for because, GIN for given, HANKERCHER for handkerchief, RUMATIZ for rheumatism, BACKY for tobacco, and many others, not perhaps Slang, but certainly all vulgarisms. Here we really have all that is known concerning the great man. SQUARE MOLL, an honest woman. HANDSELLER, or CHEAP JACK, a street or open air seller, a man who carries goods to his customers, instead of waiting for his customers to visit him. LAME DUCK, a stock jobber who speculates beyond his capital and cannot pay his losses. 3, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. It publishes for over 100 years in the NYT Magazine. DRAB, a vulgar or low woman.
Grose gives BUZ-GLOAK (or CLOAK? CLEAN OUT, to thrash, or beat; to ruin, or bankrupt any one; to take all they have got, by purchase, or force. STRETCH, twelve months, —generally used to intimate the time any one has been sentenced by the judge or magistrate. JOLLY, a word of praise, or favourable notice; "chuck Harry a JOLLY, Bill! " Who'll give me a HANSEL?
Here then we have the remarkable fact of several words of pure Gipsey and Asiatic origin going the round of Europe, passing into this country before the Reformation, and coming down to us through numerous generations purely in the mouths of the people. I. e., where do you live, or work? Tray saltee, threepence||TRE SOLDI. "To DROP ON to a man, " to accuse or rebuke him suddenly. A correspondent, who in a late number of Adersaria ingeniously traced bombast to the inflated Doctor Paracelsus Bombast, considers that HUMBUG may, in like manner, be derived from Homberg, the distinguished chemist of the court of the Duke of Orleans, who, according to the following passage from Bishop Berkeley's "Siris, " was an ardent and successful seeker after the philosopher's stone! WHOP, to beat, or hide. RUSH, "doing it on the RUSH, " running away, or making off. CUT-THROAT, a butcher, a cattle slaughterer; a ruffian.
American expression, derived from RACCOON or BEAR-HUNTING. This was, doubtless, originally a Gipsey game, and we are informed by Brand that it was much practised by the Gipseys in the time of Shakespere. GIG, fun, frolic, a spree. Old cant for a boy cut-purse. Very common even in educated society, but hardly admissible in writing, and therefore must be considered a vulgarism. From the inquiries I have made of various patterers and "paper workers, " I learn that the rhyming Slang was introduced about twelve or fifteen years ago. The allusion to his "waddling out of the Alley, " as they say, is excellent. A BIT is the smallest coin in Jamaica, equal to 6d. Quadrangle also represents a building of four sides; and to be "within FOUR WALLS, " or prison, is the frequent slang lamentation of unlucky vagabonds. Probably from the ancient MORESCO, or MORRIS DANCE. —Old Dramatists used Cant words—Curious systems of Cant||26–35|. Albert Smith has written some amusing papers on the Natural History of STUCK-UP People. The English practice of marking everything, and scratching names on public property, extends itself to the tribe of vagabonds. And many other words, as will be seen in the glossary, still retain their ancient meaning.
The Jack Sheppards and Dick Turpins of the early and middle part of the last century made Cant popular, and many small works were published upon the subject. In the reign of Elizabeth and of King James I., several Dutch, Spanish, and Flemish words were introduced by soldiers who had served in the Low Countries, and sailors who had returned from the Spanish Main, who like "mine ancient Pistol" were fond of garnishing their speech with outlandish phrases. —Originally a slang term, but now in most dictionaries. SETTLED, transported. Miege calls it "a sort of stuff. Mayhew thinks this word is from the Danish, SKUFFE, to shove, to deceive, cheat; Saxon, SCUFAN, —whence the English, SHOVE. GO, a GO of gin, a quartern of that liquor; GO is also synonymous with circumstance or occurrence; "a rummy GO, " and "a great GO, " signify curious and remarkable occurrences; "no GO, " no good; "here's a pretty GO! " FREE AND EASY, a club held at most public houses, the members of which meet in the taproom or parlour for the purpose of drinking, smoking, and hearing each other sing and "talk politics. "
It gives an introduction, long and occasionally amusing, but of not the least value in explaining to the English reader the peculiarities of the work. The transcriber added text to the book's original plain cover. —Old term, in use in the sixteenth century. NOB, a person of high position, a "swell, " a nobleman, —of which word it may be an abbreviation. I need scarcely remark that any credit he may give is termed TICK. PAY, to beat a person, or "serve them out. " A sham is a SELL in street parlance. TOOTH, "he has cut his eye TOOTH, " i. e., he is sharp enough, or old enough, to be so; "up in the TOOTH, " far advanced in age, —said often of old maids. Leave off there, be quiet! As specimens of those words which have altered their original cant signification, I may instance "CHETE, " now written CHEAT. Before the development of machine-made lace, the time and skill required to make it made it extraordinarily costly. GIB-FACE, properly the lower lip of a horse; "TO HANG ONE'S GIB, " to pout the lower lip, be angry or sullen. SHELL OUT, to pay or count out money. STAG, to see, discover, or watch, —like a STAG at gaze; "STAG the push, " look at the crowd.
HOOK-UM SNIVEY (formerly "hook and snivey"), a low expression meaning to cheat by feigning sickness or other means. KIDDEN, a low lodging house for boys. 3d Bit of dark magic in Harry Potter. The women use it sparingly, but the girls are generally well acquainted with it. GRASS-WIDOW, an unmarried mother; a deserted mistress. SCREWED, intoxicated or drunk. If his business succeeds, it TAKES; if neglected, it becomes SHAKY, and GOES TO POT; if he is deceived by a creditor (a not by any means unusual circumstance) he is LET IN, or, as it is sometimes varied, TAKEN IN. TRAP, a "fast" term for a carriage of any kind.
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