KNUCKLE, to pick pockets after the most approved method.
KNUCKLE TO, or KNUCKLE UNDER, to yield or submit.
KNUCKLER, a pickpocket.
KNULLER, old term for a chimney-sweep, who solicited jobs by ringing
a bell. From the _Saxon_, CNYLLAN, to knell, or sound a bell.—_See_
QUERIER.
KOTOOING, misapplied flattery.—_Illustrated London News_, 7th January,
1860.
KYPSEY, a basket.
LA! a euphuistic rendering of LORD, common amongst females and very
precise persons; imagined by many to be a corruption of LOOK! but this
is a mistake. Sometimes pronounced LAW, or LAWKS.
LACING, a beating. From the phrase “I’ll LACE your
jacket.”—_L’Estrange._ Perhaps to give a beating with a _lace_ or
_lash_.
LADDER, “can’t see a hole in a LADDER,” said of any one who is
intoxicated.
LADDLE, a lady. Term with chimney-sweeps on the 1st of May. A
correspondent suggests that the term may come from the brass _ladles_
for collecting money, always carried by the sweeps’ ladies.
LAG, a returned transport, or ticket-of-leave convict.