A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.Hotten, John Camden
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A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.
Hotten, John Camden
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_CUFFEN_, a manne [a _cuif_ in Northumberland and Scotland signifies
a lout or awkward fellow].
_DARKEMANS_, the night.
_DELL_, a yonge wench.
_DEWSE-A-VYLE_, the countrey.
_DOCK_, to deflower.
_DOXES_, harlots.
_DRAWERS_, hosen.
_DUDES_ [or dudds], clothes.
_FAMBLES_, handes.
_FAMBLING-CHETE_, a ring on one’s hand.
_FLAGG_, a groat.
_FRATER_, a beggar wyth a false paper.
_FRESHE-WATER-MARINERS_, these kind of caterpillers counterfet great
losses on the sea:—their shippes were drowned in the playne of
Salisbury.
_FYLCHE_, to robbe: _Fylch-man_ [a robber].
_GAGE_, a quart pot.
_GAN_, a mouth.
_GENTRY COFE_, a noble or gentle man.
_GENTRY-COFES-KEN_, a noble or gentle man’s house.
_GENTRY MORT_, a noble or gentle woman.
_GERRY_, excrement.
_GLASYERS_, eyes.
_GLYMMAR_, fyer.
_GRANNAM_, corne.
_GRUNTING-CHETE_, a pygge.
_GYB_, a writing.
_GYGER_ [jigger], a dore.
_HEARING-CHETES_, eares.
_JARKE_, a seale.
_JARKEMAN_, one who make writings and set seales for [counterfeit]
licences and pasports.
_KEN_, a house.
_KYNCHEN CO_ [or _cove_], a young boye trained up like a “_Kynching
Morte_.” [From the German diminutive _Kindschen_.]
_KYNCHING MORTE_, is a little gyrle, carried at their mothers’ backe
in a slate, or sheete, who brings them up sauagely.
_LAG_, water.
_LAG OF DUDES_, a bucke [or basket] of clothes.
_LAGE_, to washe.
_LAP_, butter, mylke, or whey.
_LIGHTMANS_, the day.
_LOWING-CHETE_, a cowe.
_LOWRE_, money.
_LUBBARES_,—“sturdy _Lubbares_,” country bumpkins, or men of a low
degree.
_LYB-BEG_, a bed.
_LYCKE_ [lick], to beate.
_LYP_, to lie down.
_LYPKEN_, a house to lye in.
_MAKE_ [mag], a halfpenny.
_MARGERI PRATER_, a hen.
_MILLING_, to steale [by sending a child in at the window].
_MOFLING-CHETE_, a napkin.
_MORTES_ [motts], harlots.
_MYLL_, to robbe.
_MYNT_, gold.
_NAB_ [nob], a heade.
_NABCHET_, a hat or cap.
_NASE_, dronken.
_NOSEGENT_, a nunne.
_PALLYARD_, a borne beggar [who counterfeits sickness, or incurable
sores. They are mostly Welshmen, Harman says].
_PARAM_, mylke.
_PATRICO_, a priest.
_PATRICOS KINCHEN_, a pygge [a satirical hit at the church, _Patrico_
meaning a parson or priest, and _Kinchen_ his little boy or girl].
_PEK_ [peckish], meat.
_POPPELARS_, porrage.
_PRAT_, a buttocke.
_PRATLING-CHETE_, a toung.
_PRAUNCER_, a horse.
_PRIGGER OF PRAUNCERS_, be horse stealers, for to prigge signifieth
in their language to steale, and a Prauncer is a horse, so being
put together, the matter was playn. [Thus writes old Thomas Harman,
who concludes his description of this order of “pryggers,” by very
quietly saying, “I had the best gelding stolen out of my pasture,
that I had amongst others, whyle this book was first a printing.”]
_PRYGGES_, dronken Tinkers, or beastly people.
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