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
_Queere fun_, c. a bungling Cheat or Trick.
_Queere-ken_, c. an ill House, or a Prison.
_Queere-mort_, c. a dirty Drab, a jilting Wench, a Pockey Jade.
_Queere-nab_, c. a Felt, Carolina, Cloth, or ord’nary Hat, not worth
whipping off a Man’s Head.
_Queere-kicks_, c. coarse, ord’nary or old Breeches.
_Queere-peepers_, c. old-fashion’d, ord’nary, black-fram’d, or common
Looking-glasses.
_Queere-prancer_, c. a Founder’d Jade, an ord’nary low-priz’d Horse.
_Queere-topping_, c. sorry Commodes or Head-dresses.
_Quibble_, to Trifle, or Pun. _Sir Quibble Queere_, a trifling silly
shatter-brain’d Fellow.
_Quidds_, c. Money. _Tip the Quidds_, c. can ye spend your Sixpence.
_Quietists_, a Numerous and considerable Sect amongst the Papists, being
against Oral and wholly for Mental Prayer, Whiggs, Popish Precisians, or
Puritans.
_Quipps_, Girds, Taunts, Jeers, _&c._
_Quirks_ in Law, Law-tricks or Subtilties.
_Quirks and Quillets_, Tricks and Devices.
_Quod_, c. Newgate; also any Prison, tho’ for Debt. _The Dab’s in the
Quod_, c. the poor Rogue is in Limbo.
_Quota_, c. Snack, Share, Part, Proportion or Dividend. _Tip me my
Quota_, c. give me my Part of the Winnings, Booty, Plunder, _&c._
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_Rabbet-suckers_, c. young Unthrifts taking up Goods upon Tick at
excessive rates.
_Rabbet_, the first Year.
_Rabbits_, Wooden Kanns to Drink out of, once used on the Roads, now,
almost laid by.
_Rabble_, the Mob.
_Racket_, a Noise or Bustle; also Tennis-play. _What a Racket those Ramps
keep?_ What a busel these rude Children make?
_Racking of Wines_, Drawing them off their Lees into fresh Vessels.
_Rack-rent_, strain’d to the utmost Value. The Knights of _Cales_,
Gentlemen of _Wales_, and Lairds of the _North Country_, a Yeoman of
_Kent_, at Rack-rent, will buy ’em all Three. _To lye at Rack and
Manger_, to live hard.
_Rag_, c. a Farthing. _Not a Rag left_, c. I have Lost or Spent, all my
Money.
_Ragou_, a Relishing Bit, with a high Sawce.
_Ragamuffin_, a Tatterdemallion.
_Rag-water_, a common sort of Strong-waters.
_Rake_, _Rake Hell_, _Rake-shame_, a Lewd Spark of Deboshee, one that has
not yet Sowed his Wild Oats, _Rakish_, tending to, or leaning towards
that Extravagant way, of Life. _Rake_, when the Hawk flies out too far
from the Fowls; also so much of the Ships Hull as overhangs both Ends of
the Keel; and to Trot a Horse gently.
_Ralph-Spooner_, a Fool.
_Raillery_, Drolling. _To Railly_, or Droll. _A Railleur_, or Droll.
_Rally_, to Unite or embody broken Troops.
_Rammish_, Rank.
_Ramp_, a Tomrig, or rude Girl. _To Ramp_, to Play rude Horse-Play.
_Rampant_, uppish, overbold, over-pert, over-lusty. _A Lyon Rampant_, i.
e. rearing up his Forefeet.
_Rangle_, when Gravel is given to a Hawk, to bring her to a Stomack.
_Ranging_, c. intriguing, and enjoying many Women.
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