BLUE PLUMB. A bullet.--Surfeited with a blue plumb; wounded with a bullet. A sortment of George R--'s blue plumbs; a volley of ball, shot from soldiers' firelocks. 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. BLUE TAPE, or SKY BLUE. Gin. BLUE RUIN. Gin. Blue ribband; gin. BLUFF. Fierce, surly. He looked as bluff as bull beef. BLUFFER. An inn-keeper. Cant. BLUNDERBUSS. A short gun, with a wide bore, for carrying slugs; also a stupid, blundering fellow. BLUNT. Money. Cant. TO BLUSTER. To talk big, to hector or bully. BOARDING SCHOOL. Bridewell, Newgate, or any other prison, or house of correction. BOB. A shoplifter's assistant, or one that receives and carries off stolen goods. All is bob; all is safe. Cant. BOB. A shilling. BOBBED. Cheated, tricked, disappointed. BOBBISH. Smart, clever, spruce. 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. BODY SNATCHERS. Bum bailiffs. BODY OF DIVINITY BOUND IN BLACK CALF. A parson. BOG LANDER. An Irishman; Ireland being famous for its large bogs, which furnish the chief fuel in many parts of that kingdom. BOG TROTTER. The same. BOG HOUSE. The necessary house. To go to bog; to go to stool. BOG LATIN. Barbarous Latin. Irish.--See DOG LATIN, and APOTHECARIES LATIN. BOGY. Ask bogy, i.e. ask mine a-se. Sea wit. 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. BOLD. Bold as a miller's shirt, which every day takes a rogue by the collar. BOLT. A blunt arrow. BOLT UPRIGHT. As erect, or straight up, as an arrow set on its end.