TO BUG. A cant word among journeymen hatters, signifying the exchanging some of the dearest materials of which a hat is made for others of less value. Hats are composed of the furs and wool of divers animals among which is a small portion of beavers' fur. Bugging, is stealing the beaver, and substituting in lieu thereof an equal weight of some cheaper ingredient.--Bailiffs who take money to postpone or refrain the serving of a writ, are said to bug the writ. BUG-HUNTER. An upholsterer. BUGABOE. A scare-babe, or bully-beggar. BUGAROCH. Comely, handsome. IRISH. BUGGY. A one-horse chaise. BUGGER. A blackguard, a rascal, a term of reproach. Mill the bloody bugger; beat the damned rascal. BULK AND FILE. Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business. BULKER. One who lodges all night on a bulk or projection before old-fashioned shop windows. BULL. An Exchange Alley term for one who buys stock on speculation for time, i.e. agrees with the seller, called a Bear, to take a certain sum of stock at a future day, at a stated price: if at that day stock fetches more than the price agreed on, he receives the difference; if it falls or is cheaper, he either pays it, or becomes a lame duck, and waddles out of the Alley. See LAME DUCK and BEAR. BULL. A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henery VII. by a bull is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull beef; to look fierce or surly. Town bull, a great whore-master. BULL. A crown piece. A half bull; half a crown. BULL BEGGAR, or BULLY BEGGAR. An imaginary being with which children are threatened by servants and nurses, like raw head and bloody bones. BULL CALF. A great hulkey or clumsy fellow. See HULKEY. BULL CHIN. A fat chubby child. BULL DOGS. Pistols. BULL HANKERS. Persons who over-drive bulls, or frequent bull baits. BULL'S EYE. A crown-piece. BULL'S FEATHER. A horn: he wears the bull's feather; he is a cuckold. TO BULLOCK. To hector, bounce, or bully. BULLY. A cowardly fellow, who gives himself airs of great bravery. A bully huff cap; a hector. See HECTOR. BULLY BACK. A bully to a bawdy-house; one who is kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the house to submit to the impositions of the mother abbess, or bawd; and who also sometimes pretends to be the husband of one of the ladies, and under that pretence extorts money from greenhorns, or ignorant young men, whom he finds with her. See GREENHORN. BULLY COCK. One who foments quarrels in order to rob the persons quarrelling. BULLY RUFFIANS. Highwaymen who attack passengers with paths and imprecations. BULLY TRAP. A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in. BUM. the breech, or backside.