_Hocus_, disguised in liquor, drunk.
_Hodmendods_, snails in their shells.
_Hoggrubber_, a close-fisted, narrow-minded, sneaking fellow.
_Hop-merchant_, a dancing-master.
_Hum-box_, a pulpit.
_Humpty-dumpty_, ale boiled with brandy.
_Hums_, persons at church.
_Huskylour_, a job, a guinea.
_Iron doublet_, a parson.
_Itchland_, Ireland.
_Jackrum_, a licence.
_Jack Adams_, a fool.
_Jack-a-dandy_, a little insignificant fellow.
_Jack-in-a-box_, a sharper or cheat.
_Jack-at-a-pinch_, a poor hackney parson.
_Jacobites_, sham or collar shirts.
_Jack_, a seal.
_Jet_, a lawyer
_Ken_, a house.
_Kicks_, breeches.
_Kill devil_, row.
_Kinchin_, a little child.
_King's pictures_, money of any description.
_Laced mutton_, a woman.
_Lag_, last; lagging behind, to be hindmost.
_Lage_, water.
_Lage duds_, a buck of clothes.
_Lambskin men_, the judges of several courts.
_Lansprisado_, he that comes into company with only two-pence in his
pocket.
_Lantern_. _A dark lantern_, the servant or agent that receives the
bribe at court.
_Libben_, a private dwelling-house.
_Libbege_, a bed.
_Lifter_, a crutch.
_Lightmans_, the day, or day-break.
_Line of the old author_, a dram of brandy.
_Little Barbary_, Wapping.
_Lop'd_, run away; he lop'd up the dancers, he whipped up the dancers.
_Loge_, a watch.
_Louse-trap_, a comb.
_Low tide_, when there's no money in a man's pocket.
_Lushy cove_, a drunken man.
_Maik_, a halfpenny.
_Mannikin_, a dwarf or diminutive fellow.
_Maunders_, beggars.
_Maundering breath_, scolding.
_Meggs_, guineas.
_Meet_, to spend money.
_Millclapper_, a woman's tongue.
_Mist_, a contraction of commission, signifying a shirt, smock or sheet.
_Mishtopper_, a coat or petticoat.
_Moabites_, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.
_Moon-curser_, a link-boy.
_Mower_, a cow.
_Muck_, money, wealth.
_Muttonmonger_, a lover of women.
_Mutton in long coats_, women; a leg of mutton in a silk stocking, a
woman's leg.
_Nab_, a hat, cap, or head; also a coxcomb.
_Ne'er a face but his own_, not a penny in his pocket.
_Nim gimmer_, a doctor, a surgeon, an apothecary.
_Nubbing cheat_, the gallows.
_Nut-crackers_, a pillory.
_Oak_, a rich man of good substance and credit.
_Ogles_, eyes.
_Old flick_ a knowing fellow.
_One in ten_, a parson.
_Pad-the-hoof_, journeying on foot.
_Panum_, bread.
_Panter_, a heart.
_Pantler_, a butler.
_Peaches_, discovers, informs.
_Peeper_, a looking-glass.
_Peter_, a portmanteau, or cloak-bag.
_Peg tandrums_, as, gone to peg tandrums, dead.
_Penance boards_, a pillory.
_Penthouse nab_, a very broad-brimmed hat.
_Periwinkle_, a peruke or wig.
_Philistines_, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew.
_Porker_, a sword.
_Property_, a mere tool or implement to serve a turn; a cat's foot.
_Prig_, a thief.
_Quail pipe_, a woman's tongue.
_Queer cuffin_, a justice of peace, also, a churl.
_Rabbit suckers_, young spendthrifts, taking goods on tick of pawnbrokers
or tallymen, at excessive rates.
_Rattling_ cove, a coachman.
_Red rag_, a tongue; _your red rag will never lie still_, your tongue
will never be quiet.
_Regraters_, forestallers in markets.
_Ribben_, money.
_Rotan_, a coach, or wagon, or any thing that runs upon wheels, but
principally a cart.
_Royster_, a rude roaring fellow.
_Ruffin_, the devil.
_Ruffmans_, the woods or bushes.
_Rumbeck_, a justice of peace.
_Rumbo_, a prison.
_Rumboozling welts_, bunches of grapes.
_Rumboyled_, sought after with a warrant.
_Rum clank_, a large silver tankard.
_Rum degen_, a silver-hilted or inlaid sword.
_Rumdropper_, a vintner.
_Rum ogle's_, fine, bright, clear, piercing eyes.
_Rum-strum_, a long wig.
_Rum-swag_, full of riches.
_Scab_, a sixpence.
_School butter_, a whipping.
_Sconce_, to run in debt, to cheat.
_Seeds_, poor, moneyless, exhausted.
_Setters_, or _setting-dogs_, they that draw in bubbles for old gamesters
to rook; also a sergeant's yeoman, or bailiff's follower; also an
excise-officer.
_Sharper_, a swindler, a cheat.
_Sharper's tools_, false dice.
_Shot_, clapped or poxed.
_Shove the tumbler_, whipped at the cart's tail.
_Skin-flint_, a griping, sharping, close clown; also, the same as flat.
_Smearer_, a painter, or plasterer.
_Smeller_, a nose.
_Smelling cheat_, a nosegay; also an orchard, a garden.
_Smiter_, an arm.
_Smug_, a blacksmith, also neat and spruce.
_Smite_, to wipe or slap.
_Snitch_, to eye or see any body; the cub snitches, the man eyes or sees
you.
_Snout_, a hogshead.
_Sack_, a pocket.
_Shanks's naigs_, the feet.
_Snacks_, full share.
_Son of prattlement_, a lawyer.
_Soul driver_, a parson.
_South-sea mountain_, Geneva.
_Sow's baby_, a pig.
_Spanish money_, fair words and compliments.
_Spanks_, money, gold or silver.
_Specked wiper_, a coloured handkerchief.
_Spiritual flesh-broker_, a parson.
_Split fig_, a grocer.
_Splitter of causes_, a lawyer.
_Spoil pudding_, a parson who makes his morning sermon too long.
_Squeel_, an informer.
_Squirrish_, foolish.
_Stamps_, legs.
_Stampers_, shoes, or carriers.
_Stick flams_, a pair of gloves.
_Stoter_, a heavy blow.
_Strapper_, a handsome woman.
_Strommel_, straw.
_Strum_, a periwig.
_Stubble it_, hold your tongue.
_Suit and cloak_, good store of brandy, or agreeable liquor.
_Supouch_, a hostess or landlady.
_Swag_, a shop.
_Swell cove_, a man with plenty of money.
_Tagmans_, a gown or cloak.
_Tanner_, a sixpence.
_Tears of the tankard_, drops of good liquor that falls aside.
_Thrums_, threepence.
_Tickler_, a knowing fellow.
_Tile_, a hat.
_Tip of the buttery_, a goose.
_Tip_, to give or lend.
_Tip's your flipper_, give us a shake of your hand.
_Toggery_, clothes.
_Top diver_, a lover of women.
_Topping cheat_, the gallows.
_Topping cove_, the hangman.
_Topt_, to go out sharp, to be upon one's guard.
_To twig_, to disengage, to sunder, to break off.
_To twig the darbies_, to knock of the irons.
_Track_, to go.
_Trees_, wins threepence.
_Trib_, a prison.
_Trine_, to hang, also Tyburn.
_Troch_, a drunkard.
_Trooper_, a half-crown.
_Trundles_, pease.
_Tumbler_, a cart.
_Turkey merchant_, driver of turkeys.
_Vampers_, stockings.
_Velvet_, a tongue.
_To tip the velvet_, to tongue a woman.
_Vinegar_, a cloak.
_Wattles_, ears.
_Whack_, a share.
_Whids_, words.
_Whipshire_, Yorkshire.
_Whoball_, a milkmaid.
_Whisker_, a great lie.
_White wool_, silver money.
_Whibble_, sad drink.
_Whiddle_, to tell or discover: he whiddles, he peaches: he whiddles the
whole scrap, he discovers all he knows: the cull whiddled because they
would not tip him a snack, the fellow peached because they would not give
him a share: they whiddle beef and we must brush, they cry out thieves
and we must make off.
_Whinyard_, a sword.
_Whip off_, to run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch: he whipped
away from home, went to the alehouse, where he whipped off a full
tankard, and coming back whipped off a fellow's hat from his head.
_White swelling_, a woman big with child is said to have a white
swelling.
_Witcher_, a silver bowl.
_Wing_, a penny.
_Womblety cropt_, the indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch in wine
or other liquors.
_Wooden Ruff_, a pillory; he wore the wooden ruff, he stood in the
pillory.
_Word-pecker_, one that plays with words, a punster.
_Yam_, to eat heartily, to stuff lustily.
_Yarmouth-capon_, a red herring.
_Yarum_, milk, or food made of milk.
_Yellow George_, a guinea.
_Yelper_, a town-crier; also one subject to complain or make a pitiful
lamentation.
_Znees_, frost, or frozen.
_Zneesy weather_, frosty weather.
Footnotes
{12} As it has been long a dispute among the learned and travellers,
whether or no there are cannibals or man-eaters existing, it may seem
something strange that we should assert there is, beyond all doubt, one
of that species often seen lurking near St. Paul's, in the city of
London, and other parts of that city, seeking whom he may devour.
{58a} Hats or caps.
{58b} Pointing to the new made king.
{58c} Constables.
{58d} Justices of the Peace, or churls,
{58e} A Beggar.
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