A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew in its several tribes of gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats, &c. : $b With an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c.B. E.
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A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew in its several tribes of gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats, &c. : $b With an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c.
B. E.
English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Romanies -- Languages
_Dint_, edge or force _dint of the sword_, edge of the Sword, _dint of
argument_, force or power of Argument.
_Dippers_, Ana-baptists.
_Dipt_, engag’d or in debt, Land pawn’d or mortgag’d. _Damnably dipt_,
deep in debt, _He has dipt his Terra firma_, he has mortgaged his dirty
Acres. _He has dipt his Bill_, he is almost drunk. _The cull has dipt his
Tol_, c. the Spark has pawn’d his Sword. _The Dell has dipt her Rigging_,
c. the Whore has pawn’d her Cloaths.
_Dirty Acres_, an Estate in Land.
_Dirty Beau_, a slovenly Fellow, yet pretending to Beauishness.
_Dirty puzzle_, a sorry Slattern or Slut.
_Disaffection_, a disorder of any part of the Body. _Disaffected to the
State._ Malecontents or factious.
_Disgruntled_, disobliged or distasted.
_Disingenuous, or indirect dealing_, oppos’d to dealing on the Square.
_Disguis’d_, drunkish.
_Dismal ditty_, a Psalm at the Gallows; also a dull Ballad, or silly Song.
_Dive_, c. to pick a Pocket.
_Diver_, c. a Pick-pocket.
_Doash_, c. a cloak.
_Dock_, c. to lie with a Woman. _The Cull Dockt the Dell in the Darkmans_
the Rogue lay with a Wench all night.
_Doctor_, c. a false Die that will run but two or three Chances. _They
put the Doctor upon him_, c. they cheated him with false Dice.
_Dog’d_, follow’d close, way-laid. _Agree like Dog and Cat_, of those
that are at variance. _Every Dog will have his day_, none so wretched but
has his good Planet. _An easy thing to find a Stick to beat a Dog_, or it
costs little to trouble those that cannot help themselves. _It is an ill
Dog is not worth the whistling after_; or spare to speak spare to speed.
_He play’d me a Dog-trick_, he did basely and dirtily by me.
_Dogged_, Sullen, pouting, or in the Dumps.
_Doggrel_, a Term for the meanest and basest Verse; such as Ballads,
_Bellmens-songs_, and the like _Meeter_ of _snow hill_.
_Doit_, half a Farthing. Dutch Money, eight to a Penny, _not a doit
left_, he has spent all.
_Doll_, a wooden Block to make up Commodes upon, also a Child’s Baby.
_Doltish_, c. Foolish.
_Dolthead_, a Fool.
_Domerars_, c. Rogues, pretending to have had their Tongues cut out,
or to be born dumb and deaf, who artificially turning the tip of their
Tongues, into their Throat, and with a stick makeing it bleed, weak
people think it the stump of their Tongue; one of whom being askt hastily
_how long he had been dumb?_ answer’d _but three weeks_, this is the
twenty first Order of Canters, the Word also signifing Mad-men.
_Dotard_, An old drowsy Fellow come to Dotage.
_Doudy_, An ugly coarse hard favored Woman. _She is a meer Doudy_ that
is, very ugly.
_Dover court_, all Speakers and no Hearers.
_Down hills_, c. Dice that run low.
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